The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is transforming food safety system by shifting the focus from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it. Does your equipment follow regulations?
What to look for in Cleanable Equipment:
- easy to clean
- clean design
- corrosion resistance
- component selection
- proper lubricants
- no exposed threads
- air quality
Food safety and efficiency are key requirements across the food industry. Our mix of electric and pneumatic automation meets those requirements, offering reliable, consistently high-quality industrial automation solutions. The right ingredients for your production systems, allowing economical production of top-quality food products. Our products, solutions, and selected services are available to you all over the world—wherever your production is located.
“In the food industry, food safety is essential. But factors like flexibility, future-readiness, and sustainability are also becoming increasingly important.
We have smart solutions to meet those requirements. In my experience, automation in the food segment works best when
you bring in an expert partner early on, who has the right automation solutions for the food processing industry and expertise in planning. You can rely on Festo for that.”
Alexander Wagner
Vice President, Food and Packaging Industry Segment, Festo
Solutions:
Food Processing
High-Performance filling and packaging systems need to run reliably and without glitches. Festo helps to achieve that with hygienic, precise and durable automation solutions.
Food-Safety Meat Processing
Automation solutions in a clean design for precise and thoroughly hygienic processing of food, even under challenging conditions; highly resistant to harsh environments and easy to clean.
Food Packaging
Innovative and cost-effective electric and pneumatic automation solutions fro all primary and end of the line food packaging tasks. Highly scalable and flexible for increased line efficiency.
Food Safety
Food sanitation is a fundamental requirement. With Festo, you can be sure of complying with all food safety regulations. Their tough clean-design components permit easy, thorough and quick cleaning.
Upgrading pneumatic systems is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways of meeting cGMP and FSMA guidelines.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) said in a 2011 report, “A recall, particulary a ‘Class I,’ or health and safety recall, is usually a significant event for a food, beverage, or consumer products company. For companies that have faced a recall in the past five years, 77% of respondents estimated the financial impact to be up to $30 million dollars:, 23% reported even higher costs.”
Whitepaper: Lower the Risk of Food Recalls with Pneumatic Systems Audits and Upgrades (pdf)