QFM is designed to improve on the performance of the company’s QuickFreeze, while adding flexibility, remote control and new ways to manage blast freezing and tempering demand.
The Sentinel system uses cloud technology to provide supervised 24/7 remote monitoring of temperatures inside industrial food refrigerators and freezers and other environmental conditions that can affect the operation of cold storage units.
Public health authorities are investigating 47 illnesses from scombrotoxin fish poisoning linked to yellowfin tuna that may have been sold fresh or frozen.
Many foodborne illnesses occur because a link in the cold food chain was weak or broken, with temperature inconsistencies that allowed pathogens to begin growing.
The meat industry has been using BI technology for decades to batch chill fresh product sold to wholesalers, restaurants and supermarkets. However, traditional cryogenic injectors have always posed problems.
GEA S-Tec spiral freezers feature a control system that calibrates the freezer parameters through the measurement of the level of frozenness of the product at the freezer exit.