Posts Tagged ‘Temperature Monitoring’
TEMPERATURE MONITORING
Temperature monitoring for a whole range of materials is critical to usable life and stability.
Data Acquisition Networks provides cost effective and reliable temperature monitoring equipment and temperature data loggers that are easily calibrated and that routinely collect data for presentation and ease of access even without the need to visit the site.
DAN systems send alarms and allow free-scripting of corrective action messages and so intotal provide a data base of information and record-keeping that will satusfy the most meticulous of auditors.
Contact DAN today on 1300 973 180
FOOD SAFETY – 100% paper-free HACCP Records!
The DE20 developed by Data Acquisition Networks provides food businesses with the first-ever opportunity to totally replace paper-based HACCP recording systems with automated and electronic data collection.
Early prototypes of the DE20 have been significantly upgraded in 2011 to provide enhanced features and functionality. With easy installation of only one single wall-mounted unit a food business is now able to routinely collect temperature data for food storage as well as input data relevant to others critical control points. Summary reports and other new and ‘special features’ are available through use of the system. Data is accessed via the internet through security password and logon identification.
Contact DAN today on 1300 973 180 to find out more about this revolutionary, paperless instrument that takes away all the problems associated with manual based HACCP data collection systems.
Temperature Recording
Why is Temperature so critical to so many items?
Storage temperatures are critical to items such as food and blood. Food for example can have two sorts of temperature abuse.
QUALITY: The quality of some foods is severely lessened if storage temperatures are not maintained at the correct levels. Some foods are not freeze/thaw stable meaning if their storage temperature is too severe and they freeze, they will not have the same consistency in use after being thawed. Some made-up gravies and sauces are good examples. Conversely, some food that should be kept frozen will deteriorate if allowed to thaw and then re-frozen. Ice cream is the classical example used by most people to illustrate this temperature problem. Ice cream is produced with over-run or aeration and then immediately frozen. If allowed to thaw or melt the aeration collapses and when re-frozen the product does not have the same consistency and mouth feel most consumers associate with a perfect ice cream product.
SAFETY: Of greater importance are the safety issues for food not stored at correct temperatures. The degree of safety concern can vary from food type to food type depending upon a number of factors but specifically depending upon the nature of the food and its ‘friendliness’ to bacteria. Tomato sauce for example is an acid-based product that is an unfriendly environment for bacteria. If left unrefrigerated, tomato sauce will suffer from what is commonly referred to as ‘black-neck’ but the product itself is unlikely to carry and grow high levels of harmful bacteria on the basis the acid naturally occuring in tomatoes provides a hostile environment for bacteria. Milk, fresh seafood and chicken however are examples of food products that provide an environment conducive to the growth of bacterial or microbial contamination. At certain temperatures food products can incubate bacteria resulting in rapid growth of sometimes deadly toxins.
Temperature recording for food storage is an essential part of any food safety or HACCP plan. Not only does temperature recording provide a permanent record of when temperature abuse occurs but if abuse occurs it is the relationship between time and temperature that becomes critical in determining the suitability of the food for human consumption.
Temperature recording for food is also critical at the cooking or re-heating stage where the core or deep-meat temperature of the food needs to reach certain temperatures to eliminate bacteria in some instances.
Data Acquisition Networks (DAN) is one of the very few companies that provide a means for routine and continuous collection of data records and in the event of a mishap, provides a record of both time and temperature.
Visit www.danmonitoring.com to find out more or better still . . . . . .give DAN a call on 1300 973 180.
Temperature Monitoring – Vehicles
Traditional chart recorders for use in vehicles simply do not provide appropriate visibility of critical temperature data. Most often the information is retrieved only when a problem has occurred and the retrieval is almost always long after anything can be done to fix the problem.Temperature monitoring units developed by DAN can be fitted to any vehicle. they routinely collect information relating to the temperature in various compartments of the vehicle as well as information relating to when doors are opened.DAN temperature monitoring units for vehicles enable fleet managers to supervise from their stationary, remote location by having continual access to the latest information about what is happening on the truck. Contact DAN today on 1300 973 180 to find out more about how DAN can help you ensure temperature compliance when your goods are on the move.
Temperature Monitoring
Temperature remains a critical parameter across a number of activities and industries. Whether you are storing food, storing laboratory samples or simply heating something to a safe temperature where bacteria is eliminated knowing that an appropriate temperature has been reached or is being maintained is of critical importance. Lives can and do depend upon it!Data Acquisition Networks specialises in temperature monitoring. With an extensive range of product DAN collects data and automatically stores that data, sending alarm messages when things go wrong.Temperature monitoring has never been so easy. For more information contact DAN on 1300 973 180
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. |
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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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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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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
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.
Remote Temperature Monitoring
Chilled, frozen or even ‘controlled ambient’ storage is always done with a single purpose and that is to preserve what is being stored. That is to make it last longer and stay purer! When storage temperatures stray there is a detrimental and lasting impact on the item, quite often to the point where it becomes unusable and needs to be discarded!
Conventional temperature monitoring systems just do not get the job done. They often rely upon manual record-taking or at best rely upon someone being aware a gauge is showing a wrong or inappropriate reading. We have all seen situations where alarms become so frequent people just continue working around them rather than taking corrective action.
Data Acquisition Networks has solved the problem of temperature monitoring!
The DAN system polls the temperature inputs 19 times each second. With uninterrupted and continuous power supply the DAN temperature monitoring system sends data records to a website each half-hour showing a maximum, minimum and an average for the period. DAN system recognise an alarm condition immediately and send alarms immediately by SMS and email and if required, provide audible alarms. All alarm messages are logged so you always know when it was sent and who got it!
Data retrieval is achieved in much the same way as you log onto your bank account by use of a user name and password. There is a facility on the console page for operators to record what action was taken when problems occurred.
DAN remote temperature monitoring systems provide permanent, time-stamped records and are the next best thing, even better in fact, than you standing there yourself 24/7 taking care of your valuable asset.
DAN remote temperature monitoring systems are also amazingly inexpensive!
Contact DAN on 1300 973 180 to find out more and for an obligation-free quotation.
Temperature loggers for food storage
There are principally three ways in which companies ‘log’ or record storage temperatures for food. Two of the ways simply do not work!
The first is by asking or instructing a member of staff to routinely go to each storage area several times a day and write down the temperature of the storage area as shown on a dial above the door. There are many reasons why this does not work and is an absolutely unreliable process everywhere it is in use. Staff tend to do this when they have time which means that they record the temperature when things are not busy and these are also the times when people are not going in and out of the storage area and it is the ingress of warm are on these occasions that is one of the primary reasons for storage temperature corruption. Also some staff simply write down the temperature they believe their boss would like to see ot what history tells them will cause less disruption. General staff are not food safety experts and they do not know the impact of storage temperature on food product.
The second flawed method is to install a non-interactive data logger. A chart recorder or some other similar device which collects the information but sadly, as pressure builds for more productive output no one ever looks at it until there is a problem!
Data Acquisition Networks provides a range of interactive temperature data loggers for food storage take temperature readings all day every day whether the business is business or not and which send alarms when temperature goes astray. DAN temperature data loggers produce a log of alarms sent and through a website provide visibility to supervisory staff even if they are hundreds of kilometers away.
DAN provides temperature loggers for food storage that work!