FBC Knoxville Employee Handbook 2025

GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES

INTRODUCTION

In the effort to produce safe and quality products, Flowers Baking Co. of Knoxville, LLC has adopted the following good manufacturing practices. The practices include FDA (21CFR,110), Flowers ’, and customers ’ requirements.

GOOD MANUFACTURING AND WORK PRACTICES:

1. All employees must bec ome thoroughly familiar with FBC of Knoxville’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs); failure to comply with any GMPs may result in a disciplinary action.

2. Employees suffering from an infectious disease that is transmissible through food or working in food handling areas are not permitted in the processing areas. A supervisor or HR shall be notified immediately.

3. Cuts, abrasions, sores, lesions, or other skin openings on hands or exposed skin must be sanitized and covered with a company approved covering or bandage (e.g. metal detectable bandages) and glove, where applicable. Band aids must be company issued and bandage log filled out.

4. Jewelry such as rings, watches, necklaces, earrings, or other exposed body piercings shall not be permitted in the processing area, with the exception of medical alert necklaces and wedding bands that must be metal detectable without stones that includes no jade, ceramic, silicone, or wood permitted out on the processing floor.

5. Hands and fingernails must be kept clean and fingernails must be properly trimmed. Nail polish, false fingernails, false eyelashes, and other cosmetic devices are not allowed in the plant.

6. All employees and visitors shall wash hands thoroughly using an approved antibacterial soap and warm water after visiting the restroom, when beginning or returning to work, or whenever there is a risk of contaminating the work area or product.

7. Excessive perfume or aftershave shall not be worn.

8. Shoes and boots must be constructed of a smooth leather-type material with slip resistant soles. No cloth, canvas, or mesh material is acceptable. Any type of shoe leaving a part of the foot exposed is not acceptable for employees working in production zones.

9. All belts shall be of the solid leather-type with a simple metal belt buckle. Cloth belts or belts with adornments of metal or other material are not acceptable for employees working in production zones.