Food manufacturing allergen changeover checklist: mistakes I stopped making

Allergen changeover made me more careful than any normal cleanup ever did. On a regular sanitation check, a missed wrapper or dirty edge is already bad. On an allergen run, the label, the bin, the tool, the gloves, and the smallest leftover material can turn into a real problem. The mistake I made early was thinking the checklist was just QA's side of the job. It is not. Operators have to know wh…