Our story

Dennis Arsenault spent thirty years in plastics. He understood, better than most people ever need to, what happens to a cutting board after a year of real use — the grooves a knife leaves, what settles into them, and why scrubbing does not reach the bottom of a cut.

He did not think a home cook should have to accept that.

He tested it before he sold it

Dennis built a surface that does not groove. Then, before there was anything to sell to anybody's kitchen, he paid an independent laboratory in Charlottetown to find out whether it actually worked — whether bacteria really did wash off it more completely than off an ordinary plastic board.

That is an unusual order of operations. Most products get tested after someone has already decided to sell them. Dennis wanted to know first.

It started in commercial kitchens

The sheets went to restaurants, cruise lines, grocery delis and food processors — places that are inspected, where a cutting surface is a documented control point rather than a piece of kitchen equipment. The product met Canadian Food Inspection Agency requirements for food contact and stayed in those kitchens for years.

Home cooks have the same problem. They just do not have an inspector.

We make it ourselves, in Canada

Every sheet is manufactured in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, in the same building the company started in. CleanCut Safety Inc. is Canadian owned, and nothing about this product is assembled somewhere else and imported. Being the manufacturer is why we can cut a sheet to whatever size your kitchen needs, at no extra cost, and have it out the door the next day. A rigid board arrives in the size a factory decided on. Ours does not have to.

Carrying it on

Dennis died in 2026. He was a joyful man, and the thing he cared about — that food should not make people sick — has not changed because he is gone.

We are still here, still in Kensington, still making them the same way.