Textile Services recently interviewed Bob Corfield, a consultant and 30-year laundry industry veteran on a challenge he deals with daily in his role as chief inspector for TRSA’s Hygienically Clean certification program—helping to ensure that certified laundries have in place (and follow) policies and procedures that ensure that soiled textile items don’t pose a risk to clean goods by coming into unprotected contact with them. Below are Corfield’s answers to a series of questions we posed to him on this topic.

Q: Is a walled separation of the clean and soil areas necessary to ensure hygienically clean laundering of ...