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Whether you are a brewery, winery, cidery, distillery or food processor, transfer hoses are a critical part of your processes. Getting the best performance and longest life from your hoses is important. Follow these key best practices to make sure you’re choosing the best transfer hose for the job and taking care of it properly. Choosing Your Hose Make sure all transfer [...]

Union Jack now offers our most popular cleaning and food processing tools in three new colors. Our FDA-compliant and hygienically designed shovels, scoops, brushes, silicon bands, buckets /lids,scrapers and wall brackets are now available in Brown, Lime and Gray. These 22 products are currently available in the following 12 colors: Pink, Green, Blue, Red, White, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Black, [...]

We love our pets, but did you know that cats in the brewery may get you in trouble with the FDA? The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulates beer as food. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) 21 CFR Part 117, which all breweries must comply with, require the use of pest control to protect ingredients like [...]

Floor squeegees play a critical role in wash-down and hygiene in your facility. Make sure you are compliant and using the most effective, durable and economical tool for the job. Next up in Union Jack’s Product Battle Series is “The Squeegee Battle” ... how will yours stack up? Increase your squeegee IQ Squeegees are a wash-down workhorse and [...]

St. Lucie Public Schools in Port St. Lucie, FL has a mission to ensure all students graduate from safe and caring schools equipped with the knowledge, skills and desire to succeed. In support of this mission, their public school system is in the fifth year of its successful Farm to School Program. Part of a nationwide effort, the program [...]

America’s largest craft brewing industry gathering will be happening in Denver April 8-11, 2019 at the Denver Convention Center. The Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® will host over 800 exhibitors and 13,000 attendees, so you’ll be in good company! If you’re attending, come by and visit us at Booth #19069. We'll have our best-selling tools and containers on [...]

Union Jack understands the importance of contaminant detection in the food/beverage processing and pharmaceutical industries. A single recall due to foreign object contamination can cost millions of dollars, result in bad press, affect contracts with large retail operators and invite lawsuits against both the processor and the retail entity selling the product. For companies using metal detection as part of [...]

With stricter FDA regulations in place, it’s time to make the right choice when it comes to the tools and containers you use in your brewery. With beer qualifying as food, you have FSMA, and potentially HACCP, requirements to follow to make sure you are compliant. Next up in Union Jack’s Product Battle Series is “The Paddle Battle” ... so, [...]

You’ve probably heard the news -- the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated beer as “food” as part of the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). There are now regulations that breweries need to follow to be compliant, and to keep beer and customers safe. There are a lot of resources out there, but it can still [...]