Ensuring Food Safety Of course, food safety is one of the most important things in the food industry. A business’ reputation is nothing if it doesn’t offer credible food safety practices. There will be plenty of exhibitors on the foodpro show floor showcasing equipment and technology to better business practices, as well as an entire seminar dedicated to food safety programme validation. Glen Pinna of Biotech Laboratories will discuss shelf-life determinations, routine quality control of products, food safety programme validation and evaluating laboratory reports against the FSANZ Food Standards code and supplementary guideline documents. The process to achieve validation is complex, but necessary. Pinna will be describing the process 22 JUNE 2017 and how to make sure to achieve validation – for example, laboratory testing is required to validate the established food safety programme. A set of analyses need to be performed on the final programme product, and these are primarily microbiological analyses as specified in the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand documents ‘Food Standards Code 1.6.1’ and, where applicable, the ‘Guidelines for the microbiological examination of ready to eat foods’. If a food or food group is specifically listed in the FSANZ Food Standards Code or the Ready to Eat food guidelines, then the applicable tests to be evaluated and acceptable limits are known. The number of times the food needs to be evaluated during the shelf-life and the period of testing is too often solely based on the laboratory advice. This may lead to over testing and high expenses. It is important that you get advice from regulatory bodies before you decide on a validation protocol. Waste Water Solutions In between seminars, visitors will be able to explore two floors of exhibition space, with a number of businesses debuting brand new technology. A New Zealand business that will be showcasing its latest innovations is CST Wastewater Solutions (Stand S9 Level 1), which will be demonstrating the construction and provision of wastewater solutions at foodpro. A highly topical area for many businesses, there is little doubt that plenty of visitors from all over the country operate plants that could be better engineered to deal with wastewater more efficiently, and even generate energy from it. On display will be the GWE anaerobic digestion technologies that extracts biogas from food, crop and livestock, processing wastewater streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels such as coal and gas used in production processes. CST Wastewater Solutions managing director Mike Bambridge says environmentally advanced technologies have been proven in scores of applications in Australasia and globally, to transform effluent from crops and livestock processing from an environmental liability into a profit centre. GWE technologies were installed at the Cagayan de Oro pineapple canning plant in the Philippines and achieved 93% organic pollution (COD) LEVEL 4 Exhibition Upper Halls • Visitor Registration • Processing and Packaging Equipment & Technology • foodpro Café LEVEL 3 • Organiser’s Office • foodpro Seminars • Supply Chain Integrity Seminars LEVEL 2 Building Entry Access via Darling Harbour Access to AIFST Annual Convention UNDERGROUND Carpark P LEVEL 1 Exhibition Lower Halls • Plant Equipment & Logistics • Food Science & Technology • Ingredients • Supply Chain Integrity Zone • KUKA Robotics Central Bar 2017 16 -19 July 2017 International Convention Centre Sydney, Darling Harbour foodproexh.com
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