Safe ingredient handling and keeping dust to a minimum are important food safety considerations for snack and bakery companies. Lessening sanitation obstacles is also a strategic goal.
As in other areas of the business world, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way bakery and snack producers are implementing sanitation strategies and chemicals in the workplace.
Cost, safety, efficiency, footprint, operator familiarity, and the ability to meet regulations are among the key factors that snack and bakery facilities need to consider when deciding whether to keep and refurbish an old piece of equipment, or send it to the scrap heap and buy new.
Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery was recently able to talk to Stacey Kinkaid, vice president of product development and innovation, US Foods, Rosemont, IL, about the COVID-19 pandemic, new sanitation protocols, and holiday offerings.
Snack Food and Wholesale Bakery was recently able to speak with Greg Thorsgard, COO of Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, and Quality Control Manager Mark Clute, on getting SQF Certified, as well as challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The center will reinforce the company's technology leadership within hygienic fluid handling and put Alfa Laval squarely at the forefront of customer engagement, product innovation and optimization of customers' processes.
October 8, 2020
Alfa Laval is opening a state-of-the-art Application & Innovation Centre in Kolding, Denmark.
While preventative facility maintenance can sometimes feel like a low priority or even unnecessary, ongoing and effective maintenance will actually help food production facilities run more efficiently, likely saving money in the long-term.
Snack and bakery facilities have a daily need for thoroughly cleaning pans, trays, containers, utensils, equipment, parts, and more, especially anything that comes into contact with the finished product or human hands, in order to meet the needs of food safety programs, including mitigating contamination from allergens or pathogens.
Snack food and bakery companies in the market for mixers want machines that provide qualities like ease of sanitation, food safety, automation, airtight seals, and consistent operation that guards against product degradation during the mixing cycle.
Birko, a business in providing integrated sanitation solutions in the meat, poultry and protein harvest, further processing, produce and fresh cut, and brewing and distilling industries, has launched the Birko Mobile Mister sanitizing equipment for various industries and facilities.