T E S T I N G
ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF SAFE
FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION
Engineering doesn’t necessarily
spring to mind when you first
think about food, beverage or
dairy production, but for the
team of engineering experts at
AsureQuality providing services
to the dairy, food and beverage
industries, it’s what gets them up
in the morning.
AsureQuality engineers’ role
is to work with customers as
independent assessors and
evaluators. “We walk the whole
journey with our customers -
from when they first start to
even think about building a
manufacturing plant and register
their Risk Management Plan,
right through every single step
of the production process,” says
Samuel Brooks, business manager
food and dairy. “We provide the
necessary independence, from
a regulatory point of view, that
our customers require, along
with a huge depth and breadth
of engineering expertise on tap,
which has enormous benefits for
our customers.”
The engineering team’s primary
role is to help customers protect
food safety and they take this very
seriously: “Any time we work with
a customer, our ultimate objective
is to form a partnership on the
ground floor, so that we never have
to be the ambulance at the bottom
of the cliff. That is always going
to be a risk when you are dealing
with food safety. At the end of the
day it’s about having us involved
right from the start. Getting it
right up-front is worth every cent
of investment - the cost further
down the line can be enormous to
a business. We work hard to help
customers avoid that.”
Recent projects undertaken have
been diverse and include heat
treatment assessments and audits,
product testing, gap analyses
and premise evaluation for a wide
range of customers and covering
everything from dairy, fruit juice,
plant-based beverages, wine and
beer, to cooking stocks, soups and
other liquid products.
While a significant part of their
work is in the dairy industry,
due to growing demand for
convenience foods and products
with a good shelf life, they now
work with many customers in the
food and beverage sector, where
their expertise in UHT and heat
treatment applications can deliver
real value. In recent examples
they were able help a fastgrowing
business to increase their
production levels, and another
customer to increase product shelf
life, all while maintaining food
safety and product integrity.
“We are here precisely to make
things as efficient, seamless
and pain-free as possible for
customers so that they can get on
with what they excel at – taking
the very best that our country
has to offer to both domestic and
international markets.”
For more information:
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