Chemical and Physical Food Safety Issues

To this end, several important chemical and physical hazards and related safety issues have been identified and described.

An example of some of the Chemical and Physical issues covered in this safefood Process Design Software are:

• Safety Issues
  • Container component migration
  • Effective cleaning and sorting of ingredients
  • Foreign bodies from equipment and environment
  • Contamination from heating medium
  • Contamination from lubricants
  • Cross-contamination from pests
  • Contamination from chemicals and cleaning materials
  • Effective cleaning and sorting of ingredients
  • Personnel hygiene
  • Ensuring removal of unacceptable product
  • Product reaction with container
  • Legislation for flour treatment agents
  • Recontamination by foreign bodies
  • Contamination from pallets
  • Environmental disposal/contamination
  • Failure of automatic monitoring systems

• Operations
  • Aspiration
  • Container cleaning
  • Deboning
  • Destoning
  • Dehairing
  • Dehulling
  • Deinfestation
  • Dry - cleaning
  • Evisceration
  • Metal detection
  • Peeling
  • Pitting
  • Plucking
  • Product cleaning
  • Product inspection
  • Separation
  • Shelling
  • Washing
  • Waste disposal
  • Wet - cleaning

• Other Articles
  • Foreign bodies from equipment
  • Metal detectors
  • X-ray systems
  • Air separation systems
  • Liquid separation systems
  • Vision systems
  • Sieves and filtration
  • Manual sorting and inspection
  • Emerging systems
  • Heat - packaging decontamination
  • Chemical - packaging decontamination
  • UV - packaging decontamination