Factory Regimes

• Segregated Warehousing.
• 2 different Mould Washing units to ensure that Nut moulds and trays etc do not contaminate Non Nut moulds and trays.
• Separate colour coded Engineering Tools. A significant amount of money has been carry over their tools from one side to the other, so potentially contaminating our machinery.
• Heavy Duty Food Grade Trays are used by the tens of thousands in the business, but we have ensured that they are suitably colour coded and do not move from one side to the other. The same applies to the hundreds of thousands of sheets of greaseproof paper we use in the business.

General Purpose - Non Nut

Nut Product
Yellow trays; coloured greaseproof paper

• We have separate Development Kitchens, separate First Aid Rooms, separate Changing Rooms, separate Engineering Shops as well as separate Mixing Rooms, Preparation Areas and Packing Lines.
• We control the Air Flow in our factory so that ‘clean’ air from the Nut Segregated Zone passes through to the ‘dirty’ Nut Manufacturing Zone. This is exceptionally difficult to control as we can’t ‘see’ it happen. Accordingly we have a regime of Environmental Swabbing and Testing at various points through the factory to keep us aware of any potential adverse air movements.
• And then there are People! As you can imagine, controlling a factory of up to 700 people and all their movements is a huge task to undertake. For starters, no-one can bring Nut or Nut Trace items in to the factory. Yes, we have nuts in our Nut Manufacturing Side, but no individual can bring nuts on to our site. Our staff, following Nut Training at induction, are constantly receiving refresher sessions and are alerted and warned to the problems of Nut Cross Contamination. Everyone who works at Kinnerton Confectionery has Nut Allergy implications right at the forefront of their thinking!
• We also undertake a regime of Protein or DNA Testing on both the environment and product as appropriate.