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FOOD SAFETY
PREVENTIVE PLANNING
 Feltracon, top and lower right, offers a wide array of vegetable washing and chilling technology for efficient and gentle product handling. Bottom left,
flexible belting options from Intralox.
make a 30- to 36-month commitment
within the processing communities to
work together with OEMs to help put
together collaborative meetings and
discussions on how the industry could
improve, specifically with regards to
their equipment.
In addition, Stout decided to link
processors with their end customers,
which were more often quick service
restaurants. While many of the QSRs
are in direct competition, food hygiene
is not an area of competition for them,
Stout said. Working together allows
them to minimize risk for the public -
and each other.
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Participating partners all met in New
Orleans to take part in Commercial Food
Sanitation's course on hygienic design.
The purpose of the meeting was to make
sure all parties were on the same level
when it came to hygienic design.
" If we have comparable expectations,
we can work together and really drive
improvement in that OEM and make
things so much simpler than they are
today, " he said.
Conveyor belt manufacturers
talk hygiene
Rod Markovits leads the fruit and
vegetables team at Intralox. It is
his team's responsibility to work closely
with their customers and educate them
on ways to improve the overall process.
The biggest challenge for vegetables,
he said, is the downstream process
of consumption. A lot of produce is
consumed in the state it's delivered.
" There's nothing to eliminate
the harmful bacteria, " he said. " As
you know, a lot of recalls in the
marketplace are spinach, cantaloupes,
sprouts, melons ... and most recently
romaine lettuce.
" A lot of belt-related hygiene
prob l ems o c c u r b e c au s e o f
the complexity of the system, "

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