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10 Essential Tools for Your Brewery or Winery
Great Beer & Wine Deserves Great Tools! Here’s your go-to list for the 10 essential tools for your brewery, cidery or winery… 1. Food Hoe When graining out or cleaning out your tanks, you need a durable and hygienically designed food hoe that won’t cause scratches or damage. Our hoe is made from FDA-compliant material. It has a molded nylon [...]
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7 Steps to Color-Coding in Your Brewery
Color-coding is designating certain colors for tools that should be used in different zones or uses. The purpose is to prevent cross contamination and promote safety and sanitation. Implementing a basic color-coding plan in your brewery doesn’t have to be complicated. Color-coding can be a simple and smart choice to help ensure food safety in your brewery and an [...]
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Understanding Color-Coding Basics - FSMA / HACCP Compliance
Let’s talk color-coding! It’s important to understand why breweries should consider using it and why its benefits go beyond helping to satisfy new food safety regulations. Color-coding has always been practical and widely used by the food processing industry. In the wake of more stringent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations (see the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) of [...]
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Beer is Food - Know Impact Food Safety Legislation on Breweries
Breweries place a priority on making sure their processes, equipment and brewhouses are sanitary as part of day to day operations. The number of brewery customers buying top quality food safety and cleaning tools is a testament to that, so is the amount of great quality beer out there. With increasing requirements on breweries to comply with federal food [...]
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Proper Care of Your Harvest Bins, Totes & Lugs
Making sure you have the right tools and containers for the job is our priority – we want to help make your job easier! We've pulled together important information about our best-selling, reusable harvest bins, bulk containers, and handheld totes/lugs, along with helpful hints for their use and care...Harvest Bins and Bulk Containers. Our durable and [...]

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Food Safety Summit begins; keynote broadcast for first time
CHICAGO - MAY 8, 2018. More than 1,700 food safety researchers and regulators are coming together here today along with food producers for the 20th annual Food Safety Summit. Seminars, panel discussions, and other educational presentations begin today. The trade show floor also opens today, providing the opportunity for government agencies, universities and businesses that support food safety efforts to interact [...]
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Brewery Equipment on List of Tariffs U.S. Imposes on China
April 9, 2018 -- The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the Section 301 list against 1,300 products from China valued at approximately $50 billion. These tariffs were ordered in retaliation for the “harm to the US economy” from certain Chinese industrial and intellectual property policies. USTR proposes imposing an additional 25% tariffs on the listed products, [...]
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Should We Use Plastic Bins?
Introduction(Repost of 1992 article)Plastic bins for apples and pears have been used in Europe for over 20 years. A major fruit growing area, the Bolzano region in northern Italy, began using plastic bins in 1970. Changing from wooden bins to plastic has continued, and the industry in the Bolzano region seems determined to make a [...]
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Olli Salumeria Americana Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Meat Products due to Possible Listeria Contamination
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2018 – Olli Salumeria Americana, an Oceanside, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,946 pounds of ready-to-eat meat products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The not heat treated, shelf stable, ready-to-eat meat items were packaged on January 19, 2018. [...]

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