Are You Ready for a Food Safety Audit?
Untreated compressed air contains many potentially harmful contaminants that must be removed or reduced to acceptable levels to protect the consumer and provide a safe production facility.
Food hygiene legislation for consumer safety places the responsibility directly on the food manufacturer. The published collection of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) that relate to compressed air are confusing and difficult to wade through.
This paper will help you make sense of it all.
First, we outline the potential risks and hazards that compressed air systems can introduce to food products.
Second, we benchmark published Good Manufacturing Practices as they relate to compressed air use in a food processing facility under a Global Food Safety Initiative (SQF, BRC, FSSC22000) environment.
Finally, we provide several compressed air quality GMPs based on those published standards.