Does Your Third Party Equipment Meet Food Safety Standards? Clean In Place vs. Clean Out of Place

Within meat production facilities, equipment and instruments fall into one of two categories: Clean In Place (CIP) or Clean Out of Place (COP).
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Clean In Place items are generally designed in such a manner that manual cleaning is not feasible, requiring the use of chemicals, detergent, or heat instead. Clean Out of Place items are equipment components that cannot be sanitized at their point of use and must be removed for manual cleaning.

When integrating new equipment into protein production facilities, the appropriate cleaning procedure for each component should be determined and properly accommodated.

Source: food-safety.com