The Nut pod refers to a completely segregated area of the factory, away from the rest of production. This is to eliminate the risk of cross contamintion of nuts to non-nut products. All parts of this must be part of the handling nuts risk assessment and should include some of the following:
People flow, PPE, air flow, material flow, waste flow, process flow, changing areas, engineering tools, utensils, colour coding, wash areas, Cleaning personnel all must form part of the risk assessment.
For more allergen control information, see Management of Allergens How-To.
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