Archive for June 2010
FOOD SAFETY MONITORING
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NEW AGE OF FOOD SAFETY HAS ARRIVED! |
| The DAN FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM automates the collection of your HACCP records! The system has two functions, Firstly, it can be easily connected to any existing (or new) cold storage facility by your own maintenance crew or electrical contractor and secondly, the system facilitates manual data entry for critical control points. All data is routinely transmitted to a data vault where it is evidence of your due diligence. Alarms are sent to personnel when corrective action is required.
Automation of your HACCP records HELPS YOU ENSURE YOUR FOOD IS SAFE TO EAT and HELPS AVOID LOSSES attributable to temperature abuse |
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| Doors being left open and storage temperatures set too low will cause refrigeration equipment to work harder, consume more energy and WASTE YOUR MONEY! Once connected, the DAN system enables you to save money. |
SAVE$$$
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FOOD SAFETY |
Food Standards Australia[1] requires businesses to prepare and sell food that is safe to eat. Food causes illness because there are high levels of food-poisoning bacteria and these poisons are called toxins. “A way of preventing or limiting bacteria from multiplying or producing toxins in food is to control the temperature of the food by either keeping it cold or very hot”. Food Standards Australia requires potentially hazardous foods to be kept at 5oC or colder and prescribes that it is “safe for food to be between 5oC and 60oC for a limited time only“. Health regulators and inspectors commonly refer to the range between 5oC and 60oC as the DANGER ZONE.
Food safety is becoming increasingly topical in all Australian states and the DAN AUTOMATED FOOD SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM enables you to take control of your HACCP record-keeping. Based upon the data collected you will be able to make informed judgments on the extent of temperature abuse should it ever occur because you will accurately know the time period over which the temperature abuse occurred.
| In addition the DAN AUTOMATED FOOD SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM saves you even more money by removing the current labour time allocated to manual data collection and record-keeping. |
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DON’T ALLOW THE REPUTATION OF YOUR COMPANY TO BE AT RISK DUE TO INADEQUATE HACCP RECORD-KEEPING!
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DATA – Automated HACCP Records |
DAN data is automatically collected and retained as a permanent and independent HACCP record. Repeated tests demonstrate data collected by DAN systems is far more accurate and reliable than can ever be achieved by manual means.
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ALARMS |
Alarm messages by SMS and email alert you to food safety issues and enable you to take early corrective action. The DAN system also automatically provides a ‘log’ report of all alarms in the format shown below and enables you to review and improve response time to alarm conditions within your organisation.
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| MANUAL DATA ENTRY |
The DE20 facilitates manual data entry of information that has historically been recorded on paper.
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Phone: 1300 973 180
[1] Food Safety: Temperature control of potentially hazardous foods. Guidance on the temperature control requirements of Standard 3.2.2 Food Safety Practices and General Requirements.
Temperature Monitoring of Food
Food authorities around the civilised world require companies to produce food that is safe to eat. There are many aspects of food handling, testing and storage that contribute to safety and monitoring and recording temperature at various points is amongst the most important.
Data Acquisition Networks has developed a temperature monitoring system for food products that enables routine collection of temperature data as well as routine input of deep-meat and cooking temperatures. DAN’s temperature monitoring system for food products collects data and sends it to a website where it is available in the same way as we all access our bank account details every day. Therefore it is available to us but not to anyone else that we do not wish to have access to the data.
Contact DAN today (1300 973 180) to find out more about how our food monitoring systems can help you. You may also find the following document of interest. Food Safety
Tank Monitoring
Exhausting available supplies of materials in a manufacturing environment can cost your company a lot of money. Not only does manufacturing cease but exhausting materials mid-run can also cause quality problems.
Data Acquisition Networks supplies a variety of industries with inexpensive and reliable means of monitoring tank depletion and advising suppliers of the need to schedule replenishment according to average current usage. Data Acquisition Networks Tank Monitoring system takes all the care away from you thereby enabling you to concentrate on other production issues comfortable in the knowledge you will never again run-dry!
DAN’s Tank Monitoring system works on load cells fitted to a tank. The output from the load cells is picked up every second of every day by the DAN Tank Monitoring system which calculates averages and records data. Not only are suppliers able to monitor your material usage but they are also sent alarms when replenishment levels are reached.
Talk to DAN today (1300 973 180) about how we can help you manage your material management.
Temperature Monitoring
Monitoring of temperature is important in a variety of applications.
In the food industry there is a need to monitor deep-meat temperatures and storage temperatures. In schools there is a need to monitor the temperature of the classrooms in which children learn.
Traditionally people have taken random temperature recordings during a day. Not always at the same time of the day and sometimes, people forget and then catch-up the next day. The outcome has been misleading information on which decisions cannot be made.
Data Acquisition Networks provides a range of data monitoring solutions that ensure routine data collection becomes a part of every day. No mistakes and no misleading information. Talk to DAN today (1300 973 180) about how our solutions can resolve your data monitoring issues.