The Kleen-Brush System

The Kleen-Brush System, a Kitchen Innovations 2007 Award Winner, is the perfect way to ensure that you and all of your employees have exceptionally clean hands, which equals exceptional quality in food handling and safety. The Kleen-Brush system addresses the most dangerous, difficult to clean area of the hands, and the part that is most often missed, the nails and fingertips. The very design on the Kleen-Brush helps to maximize safety by positioning the brush so that friction, running water and soap effectively clean the fingernails and the brush, allowing dirt and bacteria that would usually be left on the fingertips to wash down the drain. This action prevents dirt and bacteria from building up in the brush, which will eventually lead to recontamination. This handy and easy to use brush rotates to clean both the left and right hand, making it ultra efficient. This system works with most leading nailbrushes including Carlisle, Delux, and San Jamar ManiKare. It only takes seconds to install this useful system to any gooseneck faucet with the included adaptors, which eliminates the need to use tools!

According to a study published in the Journal for Food Protection (Vol 66, No. 12, 2003 p. 2296), “the best practices for fingernail sanitation of food handlers are to maintains short fingernails and scrub fingernails with soap and a nailbrush when washing hands.” The Kleen-Brush System effectively utilizes this knowledge and makes it easier to wash and disinfect this difficult to clean area of the hands. Using the Kleen-Brush system as a part of a hand washing process proves to generate a 200 times greater reduction in E. coli. (San Jamar Kleen-Brush Nail Brush Study to Measure Removal of E. Coli from Finger Tips and Residual E. coli Left on the Nail Brush, Hospitatlity Institute of Technology and Management, March 2006, pp. 4-5.)

There are three main reasons that the Kleen-Brush system is so effective: it is self-cleaning, easy to use, and sanitary. The Kleen-Brush maintains the actual nailbrush in a stream of water because of its position, which then scrubs dirt and bacteria from the fingertip and fingernail area and into the brush, which is then flushed down the drain by the constant flow of water. The Kleen-Brush is also placed in a strategic position, at the point of use, rather than being placed on a wall or in a pan of water, so it is more likely to be used because of this simple placement strategy. This system also keeps nailbrushes sanitary. Although the nailbrushes are constantly cleaned during use, the brushes can be easily removed for detailed sanitation.

The Kleen-Brush system is an integral part of maintaining a sanitary foodservice business. You might be debating on whether you really need the Kleen-Brush System in your foodservice business, but considering all the facts, can you really afford to run your business without it?