When you are working with food, you have to take extra care to not contaminate the food in the process. Just like hands, hair is always and heavily contaminated with microorganisms. To prevent contamination, the proper prevention garments must be used, such as hair bouffants and beard snoods.
When it comes to hair contamination prevention it’s important to understand how hair sheds and how it behaves under hair coverings. Using appropriate hair coverings for your type of operation is vital and is not to be taken lightly. Hair is the number one contaminant in food. All people shed about 150 hairs each day. If you are working in a plant of 100 workers for 8 hours a day, they will lose 5000 hairs.