Approved Sanitizers for Food Service....

• Iodine 12.5 ppm.
• stains linoleum and some other types of flooring

• Chlorine (bleach) 50 ppm.
• can damage hands, uniforms, metals and rubber or leave an odor when used at too high a concentration
• very reactive with other cleaning compounds and can produce a toxic gas
• scented or oxygenated types are not allowed in food service
• must be phosphate free
• Quaternary Ammonia (quats) 200 ppm.
• used in water with a 500 ppm or lower hardness factor

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