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Complete Water Analysis from Influent to Effluent

Abundant, clean water is essential to food processing as an ingredient, as a way to clean and move raw materials, and as the principal agent used in sanitizing plant machinery. Water is an important topic in the food industry as companies are paying more attention to wastewater management in order to meet stricter regulations, protect social reputations, and reduce energy consumption. Many multi-national companies have established internal wastewater guidelines requiring all global plants to monitor key wastewater parameters and comply with limits by measuring at set frequencies.

At Hach®, we understand your water needs when it comes to ensuring the highest levels of product quality, consistency, and safety. Whether it is to maintain product quality, prevent product loss, meet your compliance limits, or optimize your water treatment, we have customizable solutions for your unique challenges.

 

  • • Minimize waste and product loss
  • • Increase energy efficiency
  • • Reduce water consumption/water re-use
  • • Reduce environmental impact (CO 2 footprint)
  • • Improve environmental performance

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Milk and Dairy: A consistent high-quality product is critical to brand and business. Dairy processing is a challenging environment for analysis of FOGS (Fats, Oils, Grease, and Solid Waste), salts, and particulates that are inevitably present in process streams. Saving time or increasing the reliability of your analyses and ensuring compliance with industry regulations is key.


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Meats and Poultry: The use of water with adequate, chemical, and microbiological quality is of fundamental importance. Food processors have to take steps to assure that the water and water systems in their plants are safe and under their control.


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Fruits, Vegetables, Corn, Grains, Fish/Seafood, Flavorings, Additives, etc: Food processors require large quantities of good quality water for a range of operations, including blending or mixing, cleaning, steam production, etc. Water may contain dissolved minerals, organic matter, gases, and microbial contaminants. All of these factors are important for overall quality assurance and sanitation. Understanding water quality and how it moves through the factory is one part of the equation needed to produce safe, high quality foods.