https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/p5091-p005091
Zoning is typically adopted by food manufacturers and classified into three different zones including Zone 1 (food contact surface), Zone 2 (proximity to food and food contact surfaces) and Zone 3 (remote surfaces from processing). In this study, environmental surfaces belonging to these three zones were sampled during food processing in a fresh-cut vegetables (FVs) processing facility located in Beijing, China. Bacterial loads in terms of aerobic plate count and coliform count were evaluated by culture-dependent techniques. The p