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The food and beverage industry is a hard-hitting, fast-paced environment that demands food safe, hygiene awareness no matter the rush. Picture the scenes from our television screens. Every one of them will include a hygiene coating or a food safe paint:

The Great British Menu has steam powdering the ceilings and walls, sweat-furred brows dashing between kitchen tops, and blue plasters protecting poorly fingertips that have felt the fury of the kitchen flurry.

Gordon Ramsay unmasks mould, dirt and pre-heated e-coli on Kitchen Nightmares before shutting down restaurants in full flow on a Friday.

Even the idyllic Great British Bake Off tent adheres to rigorous Health and Safety regulations before every round of flour-throwing frolicking.

When it comes to painting and coating kitchens, food halls, abattoirs or dairies, the same health and safety rules apply, and they are essential in keeping a business open – who’d want to run or dine out at a 1-star rated eatery after all?

Food Safe Paint? Or Hygiene Coating?

First and foremost, it is important to try and differentiate between the terms ‘food safe’ and ‘hygienic’. What are the regulations? Do they apply to my commercial kitchen, common room or workplace? And if so, what paperwork must be adhered to?

Food safe paint and EU Regulations

If your varnish or coating will come into physical contact with food products, say in a silo for example or a food packaging plant, then there will be regulations required and you may need a food safe paint.

The European Commission has very strict rules on the amount of Bisphenol A (BPA) that can be included in varnishes and coatings coming into contact with food.

A new regulation was drawn up in February 2018 (Regulation (EU) 2018/213) further tightening the rules of how much BPA in varnishes and coatings can be used when packaging or manufacturing food. This has been changed to 0.05mg per kg of food and comes into force on September 6, 2018.

The regulation has been published and the full wording can be found here. It is also worth noting that any stock packaged before this date will be acceptable in the eyes of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

You will also find paints that adhere to United States law on food contact, such as some Rust-Oleum products. The U.S. Food and Drug Association has its own Code of Federal Regulations. To save you some time (and a rollercoaster read, I tell thee) the section of the papers covering Resinous and Polymeric Coatings was updated in August 2018 and is available on the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (EFCR) website.

Hygiene Coatings for Health & Safety

As long as you don’t bounce meatballs off your kitchen walls or season your steak on the canteen floor, then it should be okay to opt for a hygiene coating.

In today’s cold-calling culture of PPI claims, fictional collisions and accident helplines, Health and Safety is under constant public scrutiny. According to the HSE, slips at work are still the highest cause of accidents in the workplace and to members of the public visiting your establishments.

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The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 are still in force in the United Kingdom for the well-being of the public and your employees. Regulation 12 requires floors to be in an appropriate condition for accident-free movement. The full wording of the regulation is available on the government website. If you wish to find out more about measuring the anti-slip qualities of your floor, there is also a PDF explaining these experiments available on the HSE website.

Hygiene coatings for YOUR industry

Food and beverage environments require an abrasive, hard-wearing, chemical resistant and easy-to-clean wall and flooring. Furthermore as a general rule, the more seamless the better.

Epoxy resin systems boast these components in a variety of combinations. We sell ultra-fast curing systems, cold cure systems for walk-in refrigerators and non-slip, decorative coatings for school canteens, common rooms and markets from leading UK suppliers, including Coo-Var, Rust-Oleum, Resin Surfaces Limited, Blackfriar, Sika and Rawlins.

Resin Surfaces Limited (now part of the Sherwin-Williams family) have an excellent range of epoxy resin coatings. Resuthane TG69 can be seen in the above image, where it was employed at London’s iconic Billingsgate Fish Market.

Selling over 25,000 fish a year, the Canary Wharf attraction commissioned a floor that would require excellent anti-slip and anti-abrasion qualities. It was also imperative to have a floor coating that could be installed without halting the industry and suffering economically. Resuthane TG69 was later utilised for the kitchen flooring of London’s Bankside Hilton, which opened in 2016. Their products have also been used in the factories of KP Nuts, Cadbury’s and McVitie’s.

Resuthane comes in a variety of ranges to suit your environment. FasTop Multi WR (formerly known as Resuthane JT40) is a water-based render for walls and coving. FasTop Multi RS69 (formerly known as Resuthane RS69) is an aggressive screed designed to withstand liquid temperatures of up to 120°C. The strength of the slip-aggregate can also be diversely altered on Resuthane products to suit your exact needs and the thickness of your floor.

RSL’s products are independently regulated by Campden BRI, a safety and quality service that supports the food and beverage industry. They are an accredited company that focus on health and safety. For more information on their work, do visit their website.

The installation of an epoxy resin flooring system does not have to carry vast financial implications. If you are running a busy restaurant or a budding brewery, you may not wish to shut down the entire operation.

Coo-Var Profloor Plus FH is a solvent-free, two-pack epoxy resin that is designed to allow the re-laying and coating of an industrial floor the same day. It is an economic and food-friendly solution for when downtime is not an option.

For less ambient temperatures such as walk-in refrigerators where shelf-life is key, RSL and Rust-Oleum have created cold-curing resins to maintain a safe and healthy environment.

RSL’s Resutop Cold Cure is a two-pack, heavy-duty, fast-curing epoxy resin with chemical resistant qualities and a smooth gloss finish. It offers this resistance at temperatures as low as 5°C, and the fast-curing allows you to not worry about exposing stock to warmer temperatures for unhealthy time periods.

Certified Food Safe Paints Collection

If you do require a coating intended for food contact surfaces, we stock a range of food-safe paints that possess the qualities required to protect your floors, walls and tiles in industries where there are high levels of fats, oils and heat such as the Food and Beverage industry.

For certified wall and ceiling topcoats, Rust-Oleum 8300 Hygienic Wall Coating and Rust-Oleum 8700 Hygienic Acrylic Wall Coating offer protection from mould, mildew, and high humidity. Rust-Oleum 8300 is better for refrigerated areas, whilst Rust-Oleum 8700 can be applied up to three times in one day.  They should also be primed with Rust-Oleum 8399 or 8798 Hygienic Primer (applying the primer with the nearest product number).

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Distribution centres and food stockists have a duty of care when it comes down to food safety. This week’s article looks into and discusses the reasons for food grade coatings and why they are so important to the catering industry.

What is a Food Grade Coatings and why do I need it?

There are many variants of food safe coatings out there. However, they all have the same end goal, and that is to ensure that the food manufactured or stored in a certain facility remains contamination and bacteria free.

Companies such as ourselves provide businesses with a full on site food grade spraying service to assist with this. Using a specialised coating, certified technicians are able to apply a spray coating that is highly durable, bacteria free and long lasting.

The overall aim of these coatings is to ensure that the safety of the food is never compromised. The coatings we use here at CJ Paint Spraying comes with a number of benefits. These have been proven to reduce the growth of harmful bacteria such as MRSA and E-Coli.

Do Not Avoid Clean Room Coatings

The risks of not coating a clean room or food safe area sufficiently can be extremely costly.

Failing to ensure that food safe spraying is completed will result in the likely contamination of food products, leading to customer complaints, staff and customer illnesses, loss of sales, damaged reputation and more.

Personally, if I was taking charge of a local food storage facility – one of my first jobs would be to ensure that the storage area and handling zones where thoroughly cleaned and correctly coated. Not only will this reduce the chances of the above points from occurring, but it will put you and your business in good stead going forward.

Why is it so important to have food safe coatings?

In the food production industry, there is a range of standards you must adhere to; this can be national and international depending on where your food is going. Particular food safe coatings have a range of properties that work alongside your health and safety. In normal paints, you can find volatile organic compounds which usually is solvents. These solvents can be released into the air as the paint starts to dry. Solvents can cause a range of acute symptoms including headaches and dizziness if your employees are inhaling solvents over long periods of time this could also lead to more serious symptoms such as cancer.

Food poisoning is one of the biggest worries in the food production industry; this is because it can spread like wildfire. Once bacteria has grown, it can be easily transferred.

Here at CJ Paint Spraying, we use a water-based product which means while spraying it dries a lot quicker, therefore reducing the loss of production time. We adhere to all strict food safety regulations as we understand the need for food hygiene.

Why do contaminants grow?

Unfortunately, due to the number of people that enter your food area, there is a wide range of bacteria and contaminants they bring along with them. Usually located either on shoes or hands, no matter how much you wash something there is still a small chance you can contaminate food.

Benefits of food safe coatings

There are many benefits you need to consider when it comes to food safe coatings. All food safe coatings are resistant to hot water, oils, any fats and steam, this means that nothing can break through the coating nor can it affect the hygiene. Food safe coatings are much easier to clean as they are a non-porous surface, this means contaminants and bacteria find it hard to stick to the surface.

Coatings can withstand extreme temperatures, if you are in a food processing factory which requires the temperature of the room to be extremely hot or cold the coating is not affected.

Food safe coatings also give you a piece of mind when prepping any food. It will allow you to prep the food in a fully protected zone. All food prep areas will be in accordance with food hygiene regulations.

Industries that need food-safe coatings

There are a number of different industries that may require a food grade coating. The Food and beverage industries are some of the main businesses that require a food-safe coating to ensure they meet food hygiene regulations. Many restaurants, pubs and bars require a food hygiene rating, if the score is low, the food standards agency help businesses to improve their overall hygiene rating.

Breweries are open to a lot of contamination and bacteria exposure, due to the way they produce the beer, and the temperature some of the liquid has to reach can help cultivate bad bacteria. Alcohol is usually left for long periods of time for it to develop into the drink we like to consume which means it is imperative they are stored in a clean and sanitary place. For any alcohol to be produced in safe and hygienic environment it is vital they have a food grade coating applied.

Educational facilities need to ensure they are extremely clean and safe at all times. We all know children are less likely to wash their hands and tend to bring a lot of dirt inside. It is more likely for bacteria to breed which is why it is so important that these areas are kept clean and sanitary. The last thing you want is to be giving your students food poisening, food grade coatings minimise the risk of this happening and also help during the cleaning process.

Summary

Food grade coatings are a great way of fighting the risk of contamination and bacteria growth. If you do not have a food-safe coating you may want to think about having one installed, not only are you more likely to meet your food safety regulations or food hygiene rating, it also helps to make the cleaning process easier.

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