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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.

Comparison of air drying, freeze drying and vacuum frying showing relative cost, structure retention, rehydration, fat content and bulk density
Processing and Technology
Air-Dried vs Freeze-Dried vs Vacuum-Fried: Choosing the Right Process

We run all three processes in the same catalogue. That is a little unusual — most suppliers specialise in one and then quietly recommend it for everything — and the practical consequence is that we spend a fair amount of time talking buyers out of the expensive option.

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