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  • Enhancing Food Safety with Proper Tool Care, Maintenance & Storage
    June 29, 2025

    Enhancing Food Safety with Proper Tool Care, Maintenance & Storage

    Proper care, maintenance and storage of food contact tools is critical for ensuring a sanitary and code-compliant facility. In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of tool maintenance, the basics on how to properly clean and store items, and how to identify when it is time for replacement. Why Tool Maintenance Matters Tool cleaning and storage protocols [...]
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  • Ergonomic Cleaning & Material Handling: Why Tool Design Matters
    March 9, 2025

    Ergonomic Cleaning & Material Handling: Why Tool Design Matters

    Safety, efficiency and comfort are important factors when it comes to cleaning and material handling in industrial settings. Long hours performing specific and repetitive tasks have a physical and mental impact on employees. It’s critical to understand that tool design choice plays an important role in a workforce’s overall health and productivity. Investing in the [...]
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  • Make Color-Coding Your Resolution
    January 16, 2024

    Make Color-Coding Your Resolution

    Color-coding is a simple way to have a big impact on your facility’s food safety, sanitation and compliance. Designating certain colors for tools based on different uses, processes or zones is practical and offers a host of benefits. It prevents cross contamination from allergens, pathogens, chemicals, and physical contaminants -- improving quality control and reducing risk of product recall and [...]
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  • Moving bulk materials in your food/beverage processing facility?
    May 10, 2021

    Moving bulk materials in your food/beverage processing facility?

    Choosing the right shovel can make all the difference. Whether you simply require FDA/HAACP color-coding compliance or also certain features like lightweight, non-sparking, reinforced, metal detectable or ergonomic design, we carry a variety of shovel styles and sizes to meet your needs. And, all of our shovels are approved for direct food contact.PLASTIC. Our durable plastic shovels are made from FDA-compliant [...]
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  • The Best Brushes for Cleaning Tubes & Valves
    March 14, 2021

    The Best Brushes for Cleaning Tubes & Valves

    If tubes and valves are on your cleaning list, we’ve got the best brushes for you. Our selection of FDA-compliant and durable Vikan Tube & Valve Brushes are perfect for your brewery, winery or food/beverage production facility. Helically wound,13 gauge stainless steel shafts makes them chemically resistant, flexible and strong. Low absorption polyester bristles and polypropylene grips make tough cleaning [...]
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  • Want to Brew Clean Beer? Our Brew Kits help make your job easier.
    October 8, 2020

    Want to Brew Clean Beer? Our Brew Kits help make your job easier.

    We know that brewing is a labor of love… and that 90% of your work is cleaning. We’ve developed four Brew Kits, exclusive to Union Jack, just for you! Based on core products used by brewers for cleaning and material handling needs, our kits help make your job easier and keep your brewhouse and beer clean. Union Jack chooses [...]
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