• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Retired Food Safety Manager for 20 years here. The sanitizers we use aren’t exactly “safe” for normal consumers. If you use too much you might have a minor outbreak of what looks like food poisoning. If we were to sell the same formulas as a consumer product, someone would end up poisoning their entire family and end up dead.

    Also it’s cheaper to have the two basin sink rather than three. Be glad we switched off the one basin sink as standard back in the 50s or 60s

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      4 days ago

      That’s a good point, a lot of people probably would misuse them. On the other hand, I’ve known way too many people who clearly don’t know how to avoid cross contamination, or even proper food storage and refrigeration.

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        Yep. Had to fire a kid because he just didn’t understand that he needed to wash his hands, station, and tools between prepping meats and anything else. It annoyed me when he would switch between veggies, but that should be relatively safeish… Same kid tried to use the sanitizer sink to defrost a case of chicken.