The cleaning and sanitation procedure is important because inadequate
cleaning and sanitation of food contact surfaces represents a risk factor for
cross contamination because of the possible presence of pathogens that have
low minimum infective dose such as Escherichia coli (Davidson & Ginny,
1999) or Listeria spp (Gibbons, Adesiyun & Rahaman, 2006). Cleaning and
sanitation procedures are an effective means to reduce cross contamination and
the occurrence of foodborne outbreaks