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Four layers of microbial control for dried ingredients: market permissibility, validated process, routine run record and post-treatment protection
Processing and Technology
Steam vs Ethylene Oxide for Dried Ingredients

If you take one thing from this page, take this: the treatment name on a certificate tells you almost nothing about whether the risk was controlled.

Four elements commonly missing from food process flow diagrams: rework loops, subcontracted steps, water and air contact, and the post-treatment path
Processing and Technology
Reading a Supplier’s Process Flow Diagram

If a supplier will send you one document before an audit, ask for the process flow diagram. It costs them nothing, it arrives in a day, and it will tell you more about how the operation actually thinks than any certificate.

Yield cascade for freeze-dried fruit showing fresh input, solids limit, process losses and finished saleable weight
Sourcing and Procurement
Why Freeze-Dried Fruit Quotes Differ: Cost and Yield

Start with the solids, because that is where the price comes from. A fruit that is 8% solids has to give up the other 92% as water, so one kilogram of finished product needs roughly twelve kilograms of raw material before anything goes wrong. Run that arithmetic for your own fruit and its own…

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