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• 7. Building Design

7. Building Design

Good building design helps control potential contaminants.

• Isolate the raw products receiving area from processing and packaging areas.
• Floor, wall and ceiling materials should be non-porous and easily cleaned.
• Windows and doors should be tight fitting to exclude insects, pests and dust (which may carry bacteria). There should be bo direct links with the outside.
• Floors should be well drained to prevent ponding.
• Drains should be away from the packaging area and well screened and trapped - especially where they pass through a wall.
• Microbiology laboratories should be physically separated from the processing building.
• Waste storage areas must be isolated so that leaking or spilled material cannot be tracked around the site and back into the processing areas.
• The Industry Agreed Standards on fish premises must be followed.