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SCORINGAG: TEMPERATURE CONTROL AND SANITATION IS PARAMOUNT TO PROVIDE SAFE FOOD
Jul. 2, 2012
Source: ScoringAg news release
Fresh produce will last longer on the shelf if it is hydro-cooled.
Produce crops soak up the daily heat and don't cool down fast after
picking unless you hydro cool them to the most desirable shipping
temperatures. Air temperature cooling takes hours or days with food
safety issues and cold water cooling just minutes.
The Ag-Pack Hydro-Cooler/Sanitizer from ScoringAg.com reduces
post-harvest food losses, increases the quality for the consumer at
retail, and extends shelf life. Cooling promptly after harvest maintains
the quality and reduces the external and internal vegetable or fruit
temperatures. This is what stops pathogens from growing on surfaces, and
field heat just produces pathogens faster, if the product is not cooled
fast enough. Fruits and vegetables are also susceptible to contaminants
introduced during and after harvest by use of contaminated field
harvest containers and improper hand washing. A video link of the
machine and refrigeration unit operating can be found here.
The Hydro-Cooler-sanitizer Model 275 uses food grade ice to do the
cooling either from an ice machine on site or purchased ice. The Iceless
Hydro-Cooler-sanitizer Model 250 has 5 ton stainless steel coil water
conditioning cooling system. This optional iceless refrigeration
hydro-cooler system removes heat from produce fast whether fruit or
vegetables thereby enabling packing operations to severely decrease, if
not actually eliminate, the potential for sanitary issues and food
safety hazards (biological, chemical, or physical) being introduced into
commerce.
By using PAA and Hydrogen peroxide, you'll get a 5 log reduction in
pathogens in seconds, and it is a prevention step that can be recorded
for your FSMA prevention records. The 10' long portable unit from
ScoringAg Inc. is built to last and is to be located where it is needed
so now fresh fruits and vegetables can enjoy the hygiene of a cool glass
of milk Just as milk requires fast refrigeration and sanitizing,
produce does also. These units help even the small farmer as they are
affordable, portable, and cost effective.
ScoringAg Inc. Solution Provider for FSMA (Food Safety Modernization
Act) handles recordkeeping, food safety and traceback requirements, is
shipping the new food safety integrated hydro-cooler for the produce and
shellfish industry for the prevention of spreading foodborne pathogens
in the food chain. The modular built units has an integrated
refrigeration unit that can be used separately to cool flume and wash
tank water and can supply brush beds spray units with a final correct
product temperature before sizing and packing. The 100% all 304
stainless steel units are built to the highest food safety standards.
The straight through design is efficient for putting RPC's or lugs
loaded with a harvested crop even for the small local farm operations.
These lugs or RPC's can be tracked with RFID chips or RFID tags to
provide documentation for traceback and a recall if ever needed.
ScoringAg Inc. specializing in providing food industry prevention
solutions with food safety equipment and products, mobile database
recordkeeping systems, field and packing house printing equipment,
PDA's, laptops, and programmed Smart I-phones and other units like
Androids using RFID and GPS bar-coded label readers, for operating
within the ScoringAg.com real time database. Contact www.ScoringAg.com
for further information on food safety equipment and RFID container
tracking technology.
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