Step by step to aseptic cold filling
Aseptic cold filling is becoming increasingly important in the beverage industry. In order to be able to guarantee the long shelf lives called for by the market and expected by consumers, special measures have to be adopted to minimise the risk of re-contamination.
It is obviously not possible to make a product already on its way to the filler microbiologically sterile again by ACF treatment. ACF involves essentially controlling the process such that risks relating to microbial contamination from the surroundings, i.e. from equipment, valves, apparatus, rooms, floors, ceilings, water drains etc. are eliminated. The process also needs to be regularly reviewed in the context of a validation to ensure suitability for its intended purpose.g. for the injector and rinser.g...
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