Food Safety for Dairy Processors

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Laboratory testing in a dairy plant is primarily divided into ingredients, in-process product, finished product, environmental testing and equipment start-up. All of these categories can be evaluated for quality and safety targets.

Pumps and valves move raw and pasteurized dairy products throughout a processing plant. As part of Dairy Foods’ focus on food safety this month, we asked equipment suppliers to share best practices in cleaning pumps and valves. Here is what they had to say.

For the last 10 years, I have been working closely with federal and state government officials on the prevention of intentional contamination of food, or what is known in our government as food defense.

With a few exceptions (for example, raw milk cheeses), dairy processing includes a highly effective kill step that effectively controls pathogens that may be present in the raw material, and specifically raw milk.

Buchi provides the classical reference methods and NIR for quality control of milk and dairy products.

Neogen has developed a rapid and accurate test that can help dairy producers save time and money by rapidly detecting yeast and mold.

MicroSnap Total from Hygiena provides Total Viable Count test results in seven hours or less.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced its Exactive Plus system, the company’s latest benchtop liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system for high-throughput screening, identification and quantification of compounds in complex matrices.

The PerkinElmer AxION direct sample analysis system, integrated with the AxION 2 Time of Flight mass spectrometer, can directly ionize samples and draw straight into the MS.