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Dear friend:
     This Vacuum packing system consist of DT5 elevator, CJS2000 weighing machine, VFS5000D vertical packing machine, ZB500N inside pumping vacuum machine and product conveyor,and it's have double station.

packing speed :35-40bag/min.
weighing range:250g-500g.
bag type:Brick type
packing materials:most powder and granule materials

The price depends on the specific type of packaging materials and bags and speed requirements,so maybe you can give me some details above.
Approximate price is 140000usd

Payment:            30% T.T for advance.
                    70% T.T before shipment.
Delivery:           30 days after receiving the buyer advance
Packing:            Machine will be packed in wooden case.
Installation/ Training: The installation can be provided by the ZENGRAN company. It must be after shipment has arrived and factory must ready equipped with all necessary requirement before booking installation with ZENGRAN company . Our engineers will come to the site for the complete and final installation. During the installation session, a one day training course will be provided to the customer to the customer for operation and maintenance procedure. The purchase at US$30/person/day plus all local transportation, air tickets(round trip), and minimum of 3 star hotel room & board is provided. Day charges include travel days.
Guarantee:          12 months.




     
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Zengram

I have allowed this post temporarily because there is relatively little information about Chinese food manufacturing equipment.

Users will need to enter the URL into their browser to see the demonstration.

Please tell us more about this machine. What does it do? How much does it cost and do you provide servicing/maintenance contracts.

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Hello and welcome to the forum. I am hoping that some of our industry members will reply.
 
The Internet has lots of quality information on HACCP. When I get some time I will try to add some links.
 
While you could buy a good textbook and/or use the Internet, I  suggest that you consider taking a formal HACCP course. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in the UK validates a two-day course at  Level 111 ("A"-level standard). If you choose an excellent centre the tutors will provide you with examples of good practice and share their own experience of developing such plans. Managers in larger businesses are required by some retailers e.g. ASDA to have a Level 4 (approximately same intellectual level as  year 1 of a UK degree course) HACCP qualification. 
 
The Level 4 course is primarily concerned with the verification and validation of HACCP plans.
 
HACCP plans need to be understood by those using them and reviewed frequently. It is particularly important for the team to be alert to new hazards and to update corrective actions accordingly. This creates real challenges for companies using consultants unless the contract stipulates that he/she will undertake regular updates and train the HACCP team.

 
Catherine Devlin at CAFRE's Loughry Campus can provide more information on HACCP training.
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We also want to start a small business. EHOs not helpful INMHO. Anyone wish to share advice on how to learn about HACCP & hireing consultants?
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Thank you for the update. I am pleased that your meeting with the EHO went well. However this was to be expected- regretfully I can't say more!
While you will definitely learn a lot from researching how to produce a HACCP plan for your business there are protocols that you need to follow to evidence the validity of your plan. These are not particularly difficult to learn but others have already produced similar HACCP plans and may be prepared to help you. Consider making contact with GFS, he has significant experience of working with start-up cheese companies. Sheffield Hallam University has a list of consultants vetted and approved by the university who may also be able to help.
 
Best wishes for the future and thank you for bringing this matter to the forum.
 
 
 
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Big smile Very positive meeting with EHO - but a lot of research and work on HACCP plan to follow...
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Yes the shelf life of cheese is controlled by the salt content and the pH of cheese. The shelf life of refrigerated cheese depends on a number of factors which include cheese composition (higher moisture shorter shelf life, lower salt in moisture, shorter shelf life) and other controlling factors which are summarised below.

 

  • Cheese composition (moisture, salt, salt in moisture, water activity, and pH) Hard lower moisture cheese has a longer refrigerated shelf life than high moisture, low salt cheese has a shorter shelf life).
  • Cheese microbiological quality (e.g. yeast and mould count)
  • Cheese type ( Texture, soft, medium,  hard, ripened or not, processed or natural, mould surface ripened, bacteria surface ripened, brine salted or not, etc)
  • Temperature  of storage(frozen cheese can have a shelf life of twelve months but not all cheese is suitable for freezing)
  • Hygiene, Cleaning, Sanitation and Equipment Design (to reduce sources of yeast and mould in the cheese factory, food contact surfaces, smoking facility and packing room)
  • Vacuum packing machine (well maintained working parts, sealing bars, filters and pump,  optimum draw depth, pouch dimensions optimised to reduce folds, check seal integrity, check leakers)
  • Packaging Film (thickness, weight and construction of film used is critical.  The oxygen transmission rate should be less than 8cm3/m2/24h/atm.)
  • Residual Oxygen (best when less than 0.5% residual oxygen)
  • Pack size (optimise volume of pack to volume of cheese to avoid excess plastic and avoid film creases and folds)
  • Leaker Test (carry out tests to check for leaking packs)
  • Temperature control (from receipt of the cheese through to distribution)
  • HACCP (have a HACCP system in place from Receipt of Cheese, Storage, Debagging, Smoking, Chilling, Packing, Metal Detection, Storage, Despatch and Distribution)
  • Smoking Process (hot or cold)
  • Processing (production process, handling, cutting, slicing, etc)
  • Preservative (with or without)

 

The food business operator has to justify and validate the shelf life of its products for is customers and the EHO.  A shelf life at refrigeration temperatures of two months can be achieved for smoked cheese that is vacuum packed in the correct manner.

 

I wish you every success with your venture. 

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It is likely that your Environmental Health Officer, (EHO) is applying Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidance aimed at controlling the growth of non-proteolytic Clostridium botulinum in vacuum-packed and MAP-packed food stored between 3 and 8°C; this sets a limit on safe shelf life of 10-days. You can read this guidance at https://www.food.gov.uk/ .Search for guidance documents.

The FSA guidance is based on recommendations by the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food
(ACMSF). The key guidance is summarised in the the 2006 Annual report of the ACMS; you can download this from https://www.food.gov.uk/ . Search for guidance documents.

This guidance requires interpretation by a competent person since it must be applied when “other specified controlling factors could not be identified”.

Because of the complexity of this area FSA provide advice for enforcement officers (EHO’s).

This advice is well written and clearly explains how an EHO should deal with a business like yours.

The onus is on you to demonstrate through appropriate risk assessments that your smoked cheeses do have long safe shelf lives! It is unlikely you will be able to do this on your own. However, the EHO or his/her colleagues may be able to help you to do this at no cost. And other businesses have done this already.

The advice for EHO’s contains a section that is highly relevant to your business, “Do all vacuum packed and modified atmosphere packed products present the same inherent risk?”

The FSA response to this question is given below (I have added the italics):

 “Different foods will vary in their inherent risk with respect to Clostridium botulinum, and as a result their priority for enforcement attention (for example, hot smoked fish would have a greater inherent risk relative to a hard cheese like cheddar).

The 1992 ACMSF report contains further examples and details of
inherent risk in respect of Clostridium botulinum. See Table 12 of the report or see an adapted version in Module 4, Section 3.

The ACMSF report identifies three categories of products in
respect of inherent risk:

low
medium
high

Enforcement activity would normally be focused on products that fall within the scope of ‘high priority for attention’.

Industry guidance, produced by Campden BRI, also contains a table of examples of inherent risks. See Table 1 in 'A code of practice for the
manufacture of vacuum packed and modified atmosphere packed chilled foods' (Guideline No. 11) on the Campden BRI website via the link below. Please note
that the publication is not free. Campden BRI members can buy the guidelines at a reduced (members) rate.

See Table 1 in 'A code of practice for the manufacture of vacuum packed and modified atmosphere packed chilled foods' (Guideline No. 11)
on the Campden BRI website.”

I would expect to see only a low risk being allocated to an established food business (with staff who have expertise and nationally recognised
qualifications in microbiology, HACCP, food manufacture) vacuum-packing or MAP-packing most (not all) smoked-cheeses. Cheddar cheese for example has
several ‘hurdle’ factors including low pH, high level of lactic acid, fairly low water activity, high salt in moisture. In addition nisin may also be present. Only some of these will be accepted “as meeting other specified controlling factors” that I mentioned above.

I hope that this helps?

Please let us know the outcome of your discussions with your EHO.

 

 

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I'm planning to start up a (very) small business smoking and selling British cheeses. I planned to vacuum-pack my product and my local EHO has reminded me that the FSA recommends a maximum shelf-life of 10 days. However, I see 'best before' dates up to two months ahead on supermarket vacuum and MA packed cheeses. I'm struggling to find an explanation for how this can be. Is it a combination of salt content and pH which are the controlling factors which allow the longer shelf-life?
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