Ensuring that all incoming products used in the production of food are free from insect contamination either before, during or after the production process is a difficult task for any manufacturer to control. High standards of discipline and hygiene must be maintained by all members of the production team, to keep on top of this ever present threat from insect invasion.

Flour Moths, Beetle, Fruit Fly, Cockroaches etc are more than capable of getting into the smallest areas of production equipment to lay there eggs, creating an ideal nursery within a piece of machinery that will provide the resulting pupae or maggot with a continual source of food supply.

End of shift cleaning regimes in most instances do not allow the work force time to totally strip down production equipment to facilitate thorough cleaning within, with the use of cleaning chemicals being strictly forbidden due to the risk of product contamination. Therefore the risk of insect contamination becomes greater and will continue to exist until such times as production must be stopped to address the situation.

Long periods of downtime interrupt production schedules and delays in orders can impact on both the company’s reputation and loss of profit.

The Entotherm Process is a quick and extremely efficient way of heat treating any size of production line. By increasing the temperature of the stainless steel structure to an overall temperature of 56°C for a minimum period of 2 hours will ensure that the radiated heat will kill all insects present within at whatever life stage.

All of this can be done quickly and efficiently without the use of chemicals within a pre scheduled maintenance period thereby avoiding costly downtime.