Food Safety-Food industry
Food safety remains a top priority, yet foodborne illness cases, including Listeria monocytogenes infections, continue to rise. Listeria is particularly dangerous due to its ability to survive refrigeration and resist conventional sanitation methods, posing severe health risks to vulnerable populations.
AQUAOX™ ECA-generated Hypochlorous acid (HOCL) offers a highly effective, safe, and cost-efficient solution. HOCL rapidly eliminates Listeria monocytogenes and other harmful pathogens without toxic residues, making it an ideal alternative to traditional chemical sanitizers.
By integrating AQUAOX™ into sanitation protocols, food producers can enhance food safety, reduce contamination risks, and improve overall productivity while ensuring compliance with strict industry regulations.
Applications for Food Safety
The food processing industry constantly strives to enhance food safety by reducing contamination from bacteria, spores, viruses, fungi, yeast, and mould.
EW can be used for the following applications:
- The treatment and elimination of bio-film contamination in the processing plant.
- Microbial contamination is eliminated in fresh foods by including NEW in the food preparation.
- Cleaning-In-Place (CIP), of process plant and equipment, including pots, tanks, centrifuges, pumps, piping, filters, filler heads, pasteurizers and general surfaces.
- The continuous decontamination of process water, thus eliminating the introduction of micro-organisms into the process through poor quality water.
Benefits to the Food Processing Industry
- EW is safe to use as a final pre-process rinse.
- Improved Cleaning-In-Place (CIP) of the food-processing environment.
- EW eliminates all known bacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses, moulds and spores. (including Listeria)
- Increased shelf life of products.
- Process hygiene management is greatly improved.
- Decontamination and sanitation procedures without harsh chemicals.
- EW can be applied in the form of liquid, fog or ice.
- Introducing EW to the processing techniques will not disrupt the current processing protocols.
- Containing only activated and ionized constituents of water and salt
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References
Apple cooperative
At this apple cooperation in Italy installed an Aquaox ECA system in 2008. The EW is used to treat the process water in the basins. The usage of Aquaox ECA water replaced harsh chemicals that required special storage and precautions. But more important it is keeping the process water clear and the no algae and biofilm growth in the process water. Resulting in less maintenance shutdown in the basins.
Food processing company
This food processing company in Portugal uses Aquaox ECA systems since 2019 to disinfect their process water in their washing processes of the vegetables before final packaging.
The Aquaox ECA solutions replaced sodium hypochlorite used in the process. After replacing the workers noticed an improved work environment without strong chlorine smell and no irritation to human body disappeared. Next to this benefits the microbiological values were considerably better than before.
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