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Food & Beverage

HACCP temperature control and the evidence behind every critical limit.

Food safety systems are built on critical limits, and a critical limit is only as good as the instrument checking it. Under HACCP the monitoring device at a critical control point has to be calibrated, and the calibration has to be recorded.

The instruments are usually simple. The discipline around them is not — which is where most non-conformances actually come from.

What this sector has to measure

CCP monitoring

Probe thermometers and loggers calibrated to a known uncertainty, so a critical limit means something.

Cold chain

Temperature mapping and logging through chillers, freezers and transport.

Process temperature

Cooking, pasteurising and holding temperatures verified against a traceable reference.

Audit readiness

Certificates and recall dates kept current, so an unannounced audit is uneventful.

Services this sector uses

Instruments for food & beverage