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Sunday, October 4, 2009
JBT FoodTech
JBT FoodTech has been in the food safety industry for some time with sanitizing chemicals and specialty equipment. I had a chance to talk to Don Lawrence, North American sales and service manager, about the company's newest piece of equipment - a bin scrubber and sanitizer.
Cleaning bins after they've sat in the fields, been transported and dumped, is a labor-intensive and dirty job. Not only that, it's a task that isn't generally documented well from a food safety perspective.
But JBT FoodTech's scrubber and sanitizer changes that. The equipment is a fully automated piece that uses high pressur nozzles and a scrubbing system to remove particulates. The piece uses oversized brushes that spin both directions to get into sqare corners of the bins, and fully sanitizes and cleans them in about 45 seconds - but it can go quicker for high-volume applications, Lawrence said.
The scrubber is paired with JBT FoodTech's FreshGard Chemtrol, which continuously monitors sanitizer levels. It also records levels so food safety auditors can confirm that bins are being cleaned and sanitized.
The company already has installed 8 of the machines in California plants, and sold many more at the Fresh Summit, Lawrence said. With the emphasis on recordkeeping and food safety, processors are looking for ways to eliminate contaminant, and companies like JBT FoodTech are stepping up with innovative solutions.
"We got into it because of food safety. That was the driver," Lawrence said.
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