6 replies to this topic

[Martinblue]

Hi all,

I am interested in getting my cooking process validated.

Have sent the products for micro testing to confirm declared shelf life and was within specification.

I can not afford to buy a data logger to validate the cooking process.

Is there any way I can satisfy a BRC auditor on oven/cooking validation.

We are bakery and working toward BRC V8 standards.

 

Thanks for your help and support.

Kind Regards

Martin

Edited by Martinblue, 07 March 2019 - 09:57 PM.

[mgourley]

Have you looked into renting a oven mole? Or perhaps getting a third party to come in?

 

If you get the data, you can plug it into the AIB Kill Step Calculator.

 

Marshall

[Panos]

Hi Martin 

Here are some previous comments on your topic. 

 

https://www.ifsqn.co...ccp-validation/

 

 

[pghosh]

Yes, we too used the oven Mole and AIB's Kill Step Calculator to validate our oven in house.

You can also have AIB come in house to perform the validation study using the same process (oven mole and AIB's Kill Step Calculator). 

 

Regards,

 

Piki

[moskito]

Hi Martinblue,

 

wether you have a batch or continuos oveb microtestings (with a rather limited number of samples) make sense only if your have stable, robust oven conditions. For this you need - from time to time and depending an the variation of settings - a description of the worst case conditions and positions. For this purpose you need a data logger/better multi logger for several positions in one run. If you don't want to buy or rent, asked the oven manufacturer during maintenance to check.

We have done both in the past.

 

Rgds

moskito

[GMO]

Can the people you get to service do it?  Often they may be able to do an oven balancing process to prove the temperature is consistent across the height, width etc.  Then when you design your process in NPD could you probe post cook in multiple places (even when on normal running you may only do one)?  Keeping records for all (obviously traced to national standards.)

[Jpainter]

Is this a batch cook, or continuous cook process?