Hygienically Clean certification staff staged an exhibit at Chicago’s Process Expo in September to promote the program to the heaviest-soil market in food processing (aka manufacturing): the meat/poultry/seafood sector. The demographics of visitors to the exhibit indicated that it served this purpose, while also exposing the Hygienically Clean Food Safety designation to other key segments of the industry.

More than 120 attendees of the expo, held biennially to build partnerships among the most influential buyers and sellers in the food-processing and packaging industries, visited the Hygienically Clean exhibit. Staff captured demographic information on 88 of these visitors. When registering, 90% ...