Food Temperature Monitoring Systems
Food Temperature Monitoring
Food storage monitoring systems
Food temperature monitoring is something that is recommended for any business that stores and distributes to consumers, whether that be a supermarket, processing plant or restaurant.
Food temperature monitoring is crucial for risk mitigation of microbial contaminations. Various food types under normal conditions of storage will perish, or worse, cause serious health risks to the consumer.
Temperature control (for both chilled and hot holding) is a requirement outlined in the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles, enforced by the UK government.
For businesses to follow process and manufacturing food product safety, food temperature monitoring and food storage monitoring systems have become unnegotiable. Identifying a logger that conforms to these principles ensures ultimate product safety.
Whether you require a restaurant temperature monitoring system or a food process monitoring solution, we have a range of market-leading brands to help you find the right option for your needs. The Datatrace range is a very suitable product for this sector, as well as SenseAnywhere and Elitech.
Food storage monitoring:
Monitoring your storage facilities which typically house ingredients during in-line production, as well as long-term storage facilities of non-perishables are two examples of food storage monitoring requirements. For in-depth FDA-approved food storage monitoring, you'll likely be tracking and reporting on data linked to various parameters, including but not limited to temperature, humidity, light exposure, and air quality.
Monitoring these environmental conditions will ensure the safety, quality, and longevity of food ingredients and final products.
Food temperature monitoring:
Less stringent regulations are in place to ensure that all areas where food is handled usually focus primarily on temperature. This calls for continuously tracking and controlling the temperature of various environments where food can become a victim to contamination.
A data logger is an ideal solution for continuous monitoring, where alerts can be put in place if your temperature fluctuates. This is especially helpful to restaurants, transportation vehicles, cold rooms, hospitals and other public eateries.
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Why implement a food temperature monitoring system?
Nine people died as a result of consuming salmonella contaminated peanut butter in 2009. As a result, three Peanut Corporation of America executives later received lengthy jail sentences for their role in the outbreak. The tragic incident subsequently taught a very important lesson: food manufacturers, processors & distributors must ensure the safety of their products before they hit distribution.
Global regulations require verification of processes intended to render food products safe for human consumption. In Britain, Article 5 of Regulation (EC) 852/2004 requires food businesses in the sector to maintain procedures based on HACCP principles. This is so that food safety hazards are identified and monitored and to ensure that controls are in place to eliminate or minimise risks to consumers.
It is also a very effective way of saving your stock and preventing huge losses. Day-on-day food storage conditions in restaurants, warehouses, supermarkets and more will falter, if this goes undetected not only will the food be wasted and cost your business but it could harm the end consumer. The best way to prevent this from happening is through implementing 24/7 food temperature monitoring devices with alerting functions.
In food processing, it is highly important to verify the process performance to ensure that the correct treatment is being applied, records of such verifications should also be maintained as evidence. This is done through the thermal mapping of a food processing environment using data loggers.
