The onus has been placed on machine designers and builders to make industrial food handling equipment easier to clean and sanitize—quickly, efficiently and according to the rules. But, which rules?
Food and beverage industry machine builders know they can’t design and build equipment like they would for a machine shop, but they face a smorgasbord of rules and standards—sometimes not so well defined—that can make it difficult to meet the specifications of auditing bodies and government regulators. And if they can’t design and build safe, easy-to-clean equipment for food processors, they may as well be building equipment for a machine shop.