TRSA’s 2011 launch of Hygienically Clean certification was a giant step forward to align the United States, Canada and Mexico with other countries that had previously adopted a standardized quality-management system to assure microbiological quality of laundered textile items each time they are processed. The European Committee for Standardization [Comité Européen Denormalisation (CEN)] pioneered such efforts, establishing EN 14065, Risk Analysis and Bio-Contamination Control (RABC) in September 2002 and last revising it in August 2016.

EN 14065 guides laundries in serving sensitive sectors such as healthcare, food processing, pharmaceutical and medical devices. While the standard specifies some methodology, more like ...