Preventing Foreign Material Contamination of Foods.

Extraneous foreign material in food products is undeniably a physical hazard that must be mitigated by processors and food service establishments. Beyond this underlying threat to food safety, physical contaminants can impact the element most essential to an organization's success consumer conf...

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Main Author: Peariso, Doug
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • PREVENTING FOREIGN MATERIAL CO N TAM I N AT I 0 N OF FOODS; Contents; 1 The Importance of Preventing Foreign Material Contamination of Food Products; 2 Proactive Management Strategies for Dealing with Foreign Materials; 3 Physical Separation Techniques for Controlling FM Contaminants; 4 Applications of Magnetic Separation to Prevent Foreign Material Contamination of Finished Food Products; 5 Principles and Strategies for Using Metal Detectors to Isolate Metallic Foreign Materials from Food Products; 6 Machine Vision and Its Application to Prevent FM Contamination of Foods.
  • 7 X-ray Examination of Foods for Foreign Materials8 Proper Initial Validation, Ongoing Verification, and Change Control for Separation and Detection Equipment; 9 Proper Use of Acceptance Sampling and Statistical Process Control to Augment FM Control Programs; 10 Management and Communication of Risk in Situations of Crisis; Index.