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Food hygiene and food safety

Food manufacturers, logistics service providers and retailers are subject to maximum standards of hygiene. Our food experts register all details of your hygiene status.

Petri dish for microbiological food analysis

We offer you food hygiene services from sampling and laboratory analysis up to and including concepts for implementing the hygiene regulations and training your staff in-house.

The use of compressed air in production processes runs the risk of contaminating the food. We bring our mobile test stand directly to your production facility and thus perform the check on site. Our laboratory analysts deliver the analysis results. A combination of measurement, analysis and evaluation provides information about the quality of your compressed air. In the event of anomalies, we investigate the causes for you.

Food hygiene: WESSLING services in detail

Food hygiene: WESSLING services in detail

Hygiene checks

Hygiene checks for the food industry

Foods have to be safe; this is a mandatory prerequisite for consumer confidence. Attention must be paid to hygienically flawless manufacturing, particularly when producing sensitive and/or easily spoiled goods. With our hygiene checks, you take precautions to ensure that no safety breach occurs.

High food hygiene standards apply in all stages of production, processing and sales. Flawless production technology and well trained personnel are therefore crucial aspects for producing foods of impeccable quality. The WESSLING hygiene checks support you in this demanding task.

Our range of food hygiene services:

  • Registration of industrial hygiene, product hygiene and personal hygiene
  • On-site audit: analysis of possible hygiene risks in the production process
  • Sampling during ongoing operation
  • Microbiological laboratory analysis
  • Drinking water analysis
  • Training as per LMHV (food hygiene regulation)
  • Staff training as per the private sector standards IFS, BRC or FSSC
  • Support in implementing an internal company HACCP concept as per EU regulation (EC) no. 852/2004

Food hygiene: WESSLING services in detail

Compressed air

Compressed air quality measurements for the food industry

In the food industry, various devices with compressed air are used. Foods can therefore come into direct or indirect contact with compressed air during the production process, leading to a risk of contamination e.g. with oil and particles or microbiological contamination.

Mobile compressed air measurement stand
High requirements are therefore made on the quality of compressed air. The VDMA 15390-1/2/3 documents describe the compressed air purities for food industry production processes. They also refer to the ISO 8573 guideline series which defines the currently valid limit values and standardised sampling and analysis methods. Thanks to our analyses and expert reports, you are provided with dependable data for documentation within your quality management system.

Our range of services:

The complete solution:

Quality-assured measurement results and independent expert reports according to the currently valid international ISO guidelines

Select modules from our service package:

  • Purity measurements of compressed air and gases according to International Featured Standard Food (IFS Food) Version 7
  • Standard-conformant compressed air quality measurements as per the requirements of ISO 8573
  • On-site measurements with our mobile WESSLING compressed air test stand
  • Calibration with customer-specific compressor oil
  • Analysis in our in-house laboratory
  • Separate analysis of oil aerosol and oil vapour
  • Independent expert report including evaluation of purity classes as per ISO 8573-1
  • Causal analysis in the case of elevated residual oil or particle concentrations
  • On exceeding the required purity class, additional sampling process and analysis with REM-EDX for causal analysis
 

Your contact for the topic of compressed air quality measurements

We will be happy to support you.

Mathias Beyer

Your contact for our food hygiene services

Christian Manthey
„Man is the central factor of good food hygiene. This is why we gladly pass our know-how on to your personnel.“

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Seminars and training courses on food safety

Our experts share their knowledge with you: Here you will find our offers of seminars and training courses on current topics and perennial topics such as food safety, food fraud or new legal requirements. Whether you are a food producer or a food retailer - our programme is aimed at both beginners and professionals, because, in addition to technical aspects, well trained staff forms the basis for food safety at all stages of production, processing and sales.

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Management consulting

Certification standards in the food industry

IFS, BRC or rather FSSC 22000? Very few companies are still able to manage without proof of their food safety measures. But what standards are there today? And which standards make sense and when should they be employed? We tell you!

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Analysis and evaluation of pesticide residues

Pesticides

WESSLING offers you a competent team of specialists for this highly-sensitive analysis – we deliver reliable results using the latest measuring equipment and methods.

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Food analysis

Chlorate residues in food

WESSLING analyses chlorate residues in plant and animal food products for food producing companies. By using water that has previously been treated with chlorinated substances in the various stages of food production, chlorate can enter either fruit or vegetables.

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Latest news from the field of food safety

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Quality management in the food industry

Legal regulations and customer requirements make high demands on food manufacturers and retailers. Almost without exception, certification according to a GFSI standard is required as proof of food safety. Our experts support you.

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IFS Food Version 7 places new demands on food producing companies

Since 1 March 2021, certification in accordance with version 7 of IFS Food has already been optional. From 1 July 2021, these will then be mandatory for all IFS Food certified companies.

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