Environmental demands, allergen control, acoustics, cleaning and production needs all help define what you need from floors, doors and ceilings, and shape the evaluation process for identifying and installing the right ones.
Experts offer advice on creating food and beverage processing facilities that are easy to clean, while also looking to a future that includes automating the process.
Without sanitary design principles being properly applied to equipment, potential, serious food safety incidents may occur, creating a food safety catastrophe and damaging brand, customer loyalty and business.
For the last 20 years, 3-A SSI and EHEDG have been working together to create a synergistic set of hygienic design, testing and implementation standards for process equipment.
No one ever said 3-A Sanitary Standards Inc. (3-A SSI) and the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG) guidelines were supposed to be compatible or directly interchangeable in an “apples to apples” sense. In fact, they were conceived at different times, in different parts of the world and with different needs in mind.