Destemming & UV Tunnel

Hi

Before I start I know my thoughts on this but I was hoping to get some other thoughts and advice.

We are a high care prep facility for chopped fruit. Our current process for example is grapes are devined by hand, wash in a grape bath with chemicals then enter the high care side into trays ready to put into pots.

Currently operations have just gone off as we having a big project for automation, so as said they have gone out as they know best purchased a desteming machine to mechanically remove the grapes form the stem they they will go through a UV tunnel. So what are people thoughts and do you see a problem with this as I may need some help.

If I can give more info let me know

Cheers 

What's the end use?  For example, a lot of the grapes you buy in store still bunched comes with notes for the users to wash before consuming.  But you're saying you're a cut fruit facility, so I'm guessing you're packing grapes in tray offerings.  I would be uncomfortable with deleting the wash step entirely.  I don't know enough about UV tunnels to have a helpful insight, but I'd speculate you'll end up with a bunch of dirty grapes that have been "sanitized" via UV.

Probably sounds great to one of your execs, "Sanitize without water!"  But the grapes are still dirty to begin with.