Risk Tech has developed an expertise in assisting food manufacturers and processing plants with product loss due to air borne contamination and adulteration. We offer an unparalleled system of air quality assessment and support, developed over decades by a multidiscipline team of air quality specialist. Risk Tech has helped countless, diverse food manufacturers from Fortune 500 companies to little mom and pop operations.What hasn’t changed is one thing. We are brought in when food production facilities are losing profits due to contamination and product adulteration . . . . . . . . . . and they can’t find the cause.We observe air pressure differentials relative to the flow of the product from the “dirty” (entry/cooking) side to the “clean” (sterile/packing) side. Inconsistencies and “spikes” in differential pressures capture opportunistic pathways for potential contamination of product and safety corruption relative to the normal base environment. There are at least four components we look at:

1. Air Quality- we look at Air Changes per Hour (ACH) and Make up Air (percentage of air volume entering the building from outside)
   
   
2. Air Filtration System- Utilization of High Efficiency Particulate Air Filters (HEPA) or Ultra-Low Particulate Air Filters (ULPA) within the building envelope or in-line with the current HVAC system supplied to the interior of the building.
   
   
3. Differential Pressure - Measuring the pressure of the building and adjacent manufacturing areas relative to the outside and each other over a period of time and at intervals during the manufacturing process.
   
   
4. Overlay- This is the artistic and scientific analysis and integration of the information generated in the three previous steps in relation to the buildings specific footprint and envelope. The “dirty” or production side will cause predictable disturbances in heat, humidity, air flow and microbe movement in the air. The “clean” or packing side has relative changes to the hot side and portals of air quality change that must occur by virtue of the product movement. This model is applied consistently to the scale of the operation.

This information is gathered over a statistically significant period of time taking into account the data inputs with respect to the different cycles of the manufacturing process. It requires an understanding of the subtleties associated with microbes and their propensity for different movements and actions associated with different environments.

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