Hygienically Clean Certified Food Service Textiles

Maintaining hygienically clean napkins, tablecloths and other textiles in food service is essential for preventing foodborne illnesses and ensuring customer satisfaction. Partnering with a Hygienically Clean Food Service certified laundry ensures that your textiles meet the highest standards of cleanliness and safety, giving both employees and customers peace of mind.

When evaluating linen, uniform and facility services providers, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other food service establishments should prioritize Hygienically Clean Food Service certification. Certified facilities uphold the industry’s most rigorous standards, following guidelines from leading authorities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Ensuring Cleanliness at Every Stage

Hygienically Clean Food Service Standards are designed to oversee the entire textile processing cycle- from the handling and transport of soiled textiles to in-plant processing and final delivery. These rigorous standards ensure that every step meets the highest levels of hygiene and safety.

To achieve certification, facilities must document their policies and procedures, demonstrating their commitment to producing and maintaining hygienically clean linens.

Rigorous Standards, Proven Cleanliness

To earn certification, laundries must:

• Pass independent audits to verify their quality assurance and risk management processes.
• Complete three consecutive rounds of microbial testing to confirm hygienic cleanliness.
• Undergo quarterly testing to ensure ongoing compliance with strict hygiene benchmarks.
• Document their policies and procedures, demonstrating their commitment to producing and maintaining hygienically clean linens.

Selecting a Hygienically Clean Food Service certified provider showcases a restaurant’s or food service facility’s commitment to food safety, illness prevention and the highest standards of textile hygiene.

Comprehensive Compliance & Quality Assurance

Certified laundries are required to develop and maintain a Quality Assurance Manual, outlining compliance with key industry regulations, including:

• Facility layout and workflow to prevent cross-contamination
• Personnel training to uphold hygiene best management practices
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) practices
• Additional safety and sanitation measures to ensure a consistently clean final product

By adhering to Hygienically Clean Food Service Standards, certified laundries provide food service facilities with confidence that their textiles are processed with safety, quality and disease prevention in mind.

Learn more about Hygienically Clean Food Service certification and find a certified provider today.

Hygienically Clean Food Service Standards