FIRI Consulting CC

Advanced Retort Operation Training

For More Information Contact Lindsay Williams lwilliams@firi.co.za

Background:

During thermal processing, retort standard procedures are sometimes not followed due to emergencies such as power failures, or retort faults that result in low processing temperatures, or "short-timing".These deviations from the standard operating procedures can result in an unsafe product. Rather than wasting the unsafe product, this course deals with the calculations necessary to first determine whether the product safety requirements have been met or and if the product has failed to meet the safety requirements, what further processing is necessary to ensure that the product is safe.

• To equip the participant to identify and deal with deviations from standard retort operating procedures and to take appropriate remedial action to ensure that the product is still produced. 

• Be familiar with retort emergency situations that could result in an unsafe product being produced.
• Be able to perform the necessary calculations to assess wether a product has met the safety requirements despite the process deviation. 
• To determine the additional processing requirements necessary to ensure the unsafe product is made safe.

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