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[kwollek]

We produce a fried product in a continuous frying system.  We have a tremendous amount of oil pick up in our product and are continuously adding oil to the fryer bath.  We purchase oil in totes and each tote has a different lot number.  We constantly circulate the oil in an oil screening system. This presents a problem for traceability and recall because technically there could be oil from multiple lots from months and months of adding oil.  We dump the oil once a year and start fresh oil about once a year.

 

So do we have to add every single lot code of oil to mock recalls and traceability or just the last known oil lot that was put into the cooker?

 

Thank you

[G M]

...continuous frying system.  ... there could be oil from multiple lots from months and months of adding oil.  We dump the oil once a year and start fresh oil about once a year.

 

So do we have to add every single lot code of oil to mock recalls and traceability or just the last known oil lot that was put into the cooker?

 

Thank you

 

Back to the last hard separation, which sounds like the once-a-year cleaning.   This is one of the reasons it might be advisable to do this more often.

[SQFconsultant]

All of it.

[Tony-C]

Hi kwollek,

 

Your trace records will need to be for all batches since you last dumped the tank. I’m surprised your oil lasts a year before it needs to be dumped but maybe you have a good filtration system in place.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tony

[Charles.C]

We produce a fried product in a continuous frying system.  We have a tremendous amount of oil pick up in our product and are continuously adding oil to the fryer bath.  We purchase oil in totes and each tote has a different lot number.  We constantly circulate the oil in an oil screening system. This presents a problem for traceability and recall because technically there could be oil from multiple lots from months and months of adding oil.  We dump the oil once a year and start fresh oil about once a year.

 

So do we have to add every single lot code of oil to mock recalls and traceability or just the last known oil lot that was put into the cooker?

 

Thank you

Hi kwollek,

 

 A similar problems occurs with silos where, IIRC, a "dump" acts an analogous, repetitive, reference point.

 

I cannot believe you only have to dump/clean once per year. Must be an ultra-hygienic set-up.  IMEX with a similar product, a monthly exercise was the absolute minimum frequency.

[Scampi]

The annual dump/clean may be part of the reason your oil pick up is high

 

more debris equals a less even fry

 

and to your question, yes all of them

 

have you done a study from dump to year end to determine if the % oil pick up goes up throughout that period of time?