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The Current Crisis: Vegetable Oils
Oil is an essential good, due to its different uses, either for cooking food or as a dressing for meals and it offers beneficial properties for health. Today, it is a more precious asset due to the scarcity of some oils; we will delve into the subject later.
Why Do We Love Crunchy Foods?
How can they test the frying oil quickly and easily? With OleoTest - a fast and easy-to-use method that determines the degree of alteration of the oil and can be used by the staff of hotel, restaurant and catering establishments to ensure that the oil is still suitable for use. In less than two minutes, OleoTest will provide results, identifying the percentage of polar compounds that the oil contains and if it is time to change it.
Principle Cleaning Services Keeps a Prestigious Research Institute Running During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Because the research institute has many scientists working to stay safe while researching the virus, it was vital to keep surfaces as clean as possible, generating the lowest RLU values. Principle also demonstrated how the data from the EnSURE™ Touch and UltraSnap™ devices helped validate that cleaning worked – moving forward, they can show any client proactively how clean a surface really is.
Hygiena Announces Addition of Allergen-testing App to its Industry-Leading Cleaning Verification and Environmental Monitoring System – EnSURE Touch GalleryHygiena Announces Addition of Allergen-testing App to its Industry-Leading Cleaning Verification and Environmental Monitoring System – EnSURE Touch
Hygiena Announces Addition of Allergen-testing App to its Industry-Leading Cleaning Verification and Environmental Monitoring System – EnSURE Touch
Press Release - The Allergen App on the EnSURE Touch consolidates allergen testing results into a cloud-based environmental monitoring tool for deeper insight into process control, contamination sources, trend analyses and audit preparation.
Holistic Hygiene: Integrated Environmental & Allergen Monitoring – A New Global Food Safety Standard
Review of the best practice environmental monitoring and allergen detection methods along with the tool to efficiently harmonize the two: SureTrend Cloud. This seamless approach to comprehensive data integrity elevates good hygiene practices to a new global standard.
Total Protein Indicators
Total protein indicators or total protein swabs are designed to detect protein on equipment surfaces. They cannot discriminate between allergenic and non-allergenic proteins, but the rationale is, if a surface is protein-free, it is reasonable to infer that it will also be allergen-free. The swabs are easy to use, sensitive, cost-effective and practical if you are controlling multiple allergens.
Allergen Specific Lateral Flow Devices
Allergen-specific lateral flow devices, when used with care, are a valuable tool to assess the efficacy of cleaning and to screen raw ingredients where appropriate.
Available Allergen Testing Methods
Commonly used allergen detection methods can be divided into two groups: There are those that are carried out in a laboratory using specialized equipment, and those that can be performed onsite using little or no specialized equipment.
Allergen Cleaning Validation and Verification
Validation is the process of gathering evidence to prove that a cleaning regime can effectively and repeatedly remove allergen soils. It is ideally carried out prior to implementation of the regime, essentially to demonstrate that the cleaning objectives have been met. Verification, on the other hand, proves that the validated allergen cleaning regime was performed correctly and remains effective, which is why it is carried out on an ongoing basis.
Allergen Cleaning as a Control
How clean do you want your equipment to be after cleaning? Do you want it to remove all detectable allergenic residue or do you simply want your equipment to be visually clean? After having carried out a thorough risk assessment review throughout the entire manufacturing process, the next step is to choose the right methods to effectively carry out your allergen cleaning regime.