Food hygiene - Hand washing, hair restraints and zone crossings in food plants

In a pilot, ConductVision can be set up to flag missed hand washing, missing hair restraints, jewelry, glove problems and people or carts crossing from raw to ready-to-eat areas, for your food safety team to review.

A worker in a hair net, blue apron and blue gloves at racks of cheese in a dairy plant

What a pilot can flag

FDA warning letters to food makers cite these lapses, and letters about Listeria describe people and carts crossing from raw to ready-to-eat areas.

Hand washing

A missed hand wash on the way into a food handling area.

Hair restraints

A hair net, beard cover or other restraint missing where your rules require one.

Jewelry

Jewelry on people handling food, where the camera is close enough to see it.

Glove use

Bare hands where your rules call for gloves.

Raw to ready-to-eat crossings

People and carts crossing from raw areas into ready-to-eat areas.

What 21 CFR 117 says

21 CFR 117.10(b) covers everyone working in direct contact with food, food-contact surfaces and food-packaging materials.

21 CFR 117.10(b)(3)

Washing hands thoroughly (and sanitizing if necessary to protect against contamination with undesirable microorganisms) in an adequate hand-washing facility before starting work, after each absence from the work station, and at any other time when the hands may have become soiled or contaminated.

21 CFR 117.10(b)(4)

Removing all unsecured jewelry and other objects that might fall into food, equipment, or containers, and removing hand jewelry that cannot be adequately sanitized during periods in which food is manipulated by hand.

21 CFR 117.10(b)(5)

Maintaining gloves, if they are used in food handling, in an intact, clean, and sanitary condition.

21 CFR 117.10(b)(6)

Wearing, where appropriate, in an effective manner, hair nets, headbands, caps, beard covers, or other effective hair restraints.

Pilot - How a pilot starts

A pilot is one area of one plant. We look at footage you choose to share with us and agree with your team on what to watch for. A first look at your footage shows whether the camera views will work. Your team sets the criteria before any results come in. You decide whether to roll out, change the scope or stop.

You bring: Video from the cameras that already see one room, a hand wash station or a door between areas
We set up: One room or one door between raw and ready-to-eat areas, and your written hygiene rules
You get: Flagged clips for your food safety team to review, and a report of the results checked against the criteria your team set

ConductVision works with the camera system you already run. We do not install cameras. ConductVision runs on a computer at your site. Full recordings never leave your network, and short clips leave it only as your statement of work sets out. Faces can be blurred, or people shown as simple figures, when your policy calls for it.

Plan a pilot

FDA 483 observationsWhat a Form 483 is, how firms respond and what FDA counted in fiscal 2025.See FDA 483 observations

Plants where this applies

Food and beverage

What else it can flag

Contact us

Tell us which cameras you have and what you want them to watch for.