Rules for handling and storage Pallets

In order to keep a good hygiene there are some general rules for handling and storage  pallets

• Use clean, dry pallets for the food industry.
• Wooden pallets should not be stored unprotected outdoors in order to avoid biological, physical and chemical contamination.
• Keep pallets separated – special pallets for hygienic zones
• Use pallet inverters. To avoid contamination a possible, cheap and easy solution is to use wooden pallets with a slip-sheet on top.
• When depalletising one pallet, the receiving pallet also has a slip-sheet on top. The pallets can be kept in separate zones and the slip-sheets can be made of different materials, expendable or reusable.  

One method to clean pallets is to use high pressure water sprinkling.  The pallets can be pasteurised by using

• Heat treatment by adding an additional drying cycle in a kiln
• High temperature treatment
• Microwave technology  seems to be one very promising method.