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suppliers focus on minimizing vulnerabilities
in conveyors that come into contact with
food products.
The cost of not addressing vulnerabilities
can be steep, especially for large processors
with multimillion and billion-dollar businesses.
"If they lose one brand name over a recall,
that can do some serious damage,
so processors are being very
cautious," says Rick Spiak, vice
president of sales and marketing
for Wire Belt Co. of America,
Londonderry, New Hampshire.
Spiak says safety is at the top
of the priority list for those in
the meat and poultry business.
"Speed isn't as much of an issue as
hygiene for safety and for human
capital. It's been incrementally
changing and goes up a bit every
year," he reports.

echoes the broad demand for hygienic design
in belting and conveyor systems. "A lot of
meat and poultry manufacturers are trying to
eliminate problems where water and sanitation
chemicals have difficulty penetrating and
removing food debris from 'sandwich points,'
as they are called. With conveyors, we want to

"With conveyors,
we want to
eliminate cracks
and crevices."
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EQUIPMENT DESIGN
Sanitary design also has been
top of mind in recent years
because of increasingly stringent
standards and regulations. The
North American Meat Institute's
"10 Principles of Sanitary Design"
address a host of issues that
impact belting and conveyor
systems, including the design
of equipment that does not
promote the accumulation or
pooling of liquid on equipment.
Going into even more specifics,
NSF International, a provider
of risk management solutions,
released detailed international
and US standards for hygienic
requirements for the design of
mechanical belt conveyors used
in meat and poultry processing.
HACCP standards and regulations
by the US Dept. of Agriculture and
Food and Drug Administration
likewise outlines ways that the
production process can be checked
for microbiological hazards and
reviewed for hygiene risk.
Kenneth King, commercial
support manager for Ashworth
Bros. Inc., Winchester, Virginia,

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