Got inspected today

[GeneralStark]

Why are you being inspected by the FDA? DO you sell more than 50% bulk or is Wisconsin just clueless?

[jmayerl]

Why are you being inspected by the FDA? DO you sell more than 50% bulk or is Wisconsin just clueless?

Not sure how I got on the list be be inspected. I have been registered with the FDA for 5 years. 100% of sales are direct to grocery stores, about 600 gallons.

[Louie]

What type of sanitizer are they wanting people to use?

[prairietapper]

Nope not going there. I really didn't mind the inspection it's part of the process and it needs to be done. I do think it's to much of a general all inclusive inspection and not geared towards maple syrup productio. I would be more concerned if the just cashed myy check and didn't look inside my operation.

I hear you! although when I first talked to our county health dept about making syrup. they said I had to have a triple sink large enough to completely submerge the evaporator pan....

[Haynes Forest Products]

My impression is the tripple was sinks is more about washing hands first and equipment second. When asked I explained that if the equipment woukld fit in the sink I would clean it in the sink. If it was a stand alone piece of equipment it would be cleaned in place. Floor drains then became their next concern and that is that the water drained to the floor drain and any standing water was swept into the drain. They inspect micro brewery's and don't expect the Mastun to be removed from the floor and put in a sink.

I felt that once your face to face with the person doing the inspecting then they realize the realizations of their request isn't one size fits all. Milk trucks get washed and sanitized every day but not in sinks.

[Galena]

Strictly fwiw in basically every restaurant kitchen I've ever been in and/or worked in, there is the triple-sink setup whose purpose is for washing equipment only, with dishes getting rinsed off and then loaded into an industrial dishwasher. A smaller, separate sink is for use as a handwashing sink and is usually clearly marked for that purpose.

[prairietapper]

on the flip side. When I see what so many post in public about what they collect in, want to collect in. etc.
it is no wonder the powers that be feel they must get more proactive.

[Road's End]

Strictly fwiw in basically every restaurant kitchen I've ever been in and/or worked in, there is the triple-sink setup whose purpose is for washing equipment only, with dishes getting rinsed off and then loaded into an industrial dishwasher. A smaller, separate sink is for use as a handwashing sink and is usually clearly marked for that purpose.

Same here. I work at a small ski hill in the winter and we had to add a small hand washing sink next to the triple wash sink a few years back because it didn't meet the code. It has a nice big sign over it "hand wash only"

[S.S.S]

I just found out couple days ago that a local big producer is using a buddy of mines stainless milk semi trailer that he now uses for fertilizer to store over flow sap into!

[paulslund]

I just found out couple days ago that a local big producer is using a buddy of mines stainless milk semi trailer that he now uses for fertilizer to store over flow sap into!

That sounds pretty crappy!