THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY CONTROL IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY: MEASURES TO PREVENT PROBABLE CLEANING RESIDUES CONTAMINATION OF UHT BEVERAGES

Authors

  • Rita C. Berti Centro Universitário Das Faculdade Unidas
  • Daniela Carvalho Santos Centro Universitário Das Faculdade Unidas

Keywords:

food security, CIP System, UHT, HACCP, food contamination, dairy, recall.

Abstract

Quality assurance of a food industry is established by laws based on ensure that the food has no physical, chemical or biological contaminants, however, several reports describe failures on the production and inappropriate products that were released for sale on the consumer market. A lot is being said about biological contaminants, nevertheless, cases of chemical contamination by cleaning products also have drew attention in recent years. This work emphasizes the importance of establishing quality standards in industrial production processes of food, taking as an example the analysis of a fault occurred in a Brazilian company that produces UHT chocolate beverage whose product has remnants of cleaner items. It suggesting a pH evaluation or on the water from the final rinse of the cleaning process, or on the final product as a preventive measure to avoid this kind of risk.

Author Biographies

Rita C. Berti, Centro Universitário Das Faculdade Unidas

Curso de Pós Graduação em Microbiologia Aplicada í  Saúde e Indústria.

Daniela Carvalho Santos, Centro Universitário Das Faculdade Unidas

Curso de Pós Graduação em Microbiologia Aplicada í  Saúde e Indústria.

Published

2016-05-02

Issue

Section

Artigo Teórico