Food Quality & Safety New Products: April/May 2018

Pest Control with Internet of Things

The PestConnect system utilizes infrared sensors on rodent traps to monitor mouse activity on premise 24/7/365. It also allows for the immediate capture, containment, and notification of mice incidents as they arise. The goal of PestConnect is to monitor and log issues in real time, resulting in shortened response time to activity and enhancing compliance with regulations and standards. It also helps mitigate potential issues before they have an impact on the bottom line by preventing contamination of food products. Rentokil Steritech, 888-258-6604, www.rentokil-steritech.com.

X-ray Product Line

According to the company, a high-level X-ray inspection product line for small to large manufacturers of packaged food products features a greener/more sustainable solution and easier maintenance and operation, including a new user interface. Users can get quick access to operational components while providing contaminant detection. Eagle Product Inspection, 877-379-1670, www.eaglepi.com.

Farm Food Safety Management

CompWALK.farm, a food safety management software for the agriculture industry, helps farms manage regulations. Growers can conduct farm food safety mock inspections, download food safety templates, track corrective actions, and store documents in a single location. It also provides a searchable file repository to save time maintaining regulatory documents. NextLOGiK, 877-399-8086, www.nextlogik.com.

Automated UV-Visible Spectrophotometers

QA/QC technicians, instructors, and university researchers seeking a robust spectrophotometer can choose from a range of options in the newly designed GENESYS UV-Vis spectrophotometer family. GENESYS spectrophotometers are accessible, automated, and network-ready. With a modern design and compact footprint, the new instruments take maximum advantage of limited bench space. Other features include onboard controls and a touchscreen interface, eliminating the need for an external computer. Additionally, users can create a printed record of their data via an optional snap-on thermal printer or a network printer using Ethernet or optional Wi-Fi. Thermo Scientific, 866-356-0354, www.thermofisher.com.

Moisture Determination

The TGM800 thermogravimetric moisture determinator features the ability to measure up to 16 samples at a time with drying time end-point recognition and intuitive software. It provides the user with flexible method settings, automation, and hardware capabilities that maximizes moisture determination’s efficiency, productivity, and analytical performance, while offering the ability to meet the primary loss-on-drying method requirements for sample mass, oven temperature, and ventilation. The TGM800 is applicable to a wide variety of sample matrices including food, feeds, milled products, and agricultural materials. LECO Corp., 800-292-6141, www.leco.com.

Listeria Testing System

The RapidChek Listeria monocytogenes is certified by AOAC in its Performance Tested Methods program for detecting the pathogen on environmental surfaces and ready-to-eat foods, including hot dogs, frozen breaded chicken, frozen cooked shrimp, cured ham, and ice cream. It combines a sensitive immuno-detection strip with a single proprietary enrichment media. After enrichment, highly sensitive and specific strips indicate the presence of L. monocytogenes in 10 minutes. Romer Labs, 302-781-6400, www.romerlabs.com.

Blockchain Quality Management

RizePoint Quality Management powered by blockchain allows QA managers to connect all supplier data—from onboarding information to supplier inspection results to industry certifications to corrective action—in a single source. Data collected by the RizePoint solution provides insights into all touch points in the supply chain. As products move through the supply chain, they must pass internal standards and correct any non-compliance immediately. Users can identify problems faster in the supply chain. RizePoint, 888-313-7095, www.rizepoint.com.