How Can A Vacuum Affect Your Reputation?
Drastically. Nilfisk-Advance America’s vacuums not only protect your food products from harmful bacteria, allergens, and insects…but they also protect your reputation. Our machines elevate your plant to the next level in cleanliness so your food products are safe. Consumers stay satisfied while your brand name shines.
We’ve dedicated the past century to innovating advanced cleaning solutions that meet your specific food safety and quality demands – limiting cross contamination in production lines; increasing compliance with the Food & Drug Administration’s GMPs and the HACCPs; and, preventing allergen-related product recalls. (Did you know the average cost of a food product recall is $540,000?)1 Our vacuums stop the spread of dangerous pathogens otherwise distributed via brooms, mops, rags, compressed air, even inadequately filtered vacuums.
Today, our Nilfisk and CFM-brand vacuums are integral to the production and packaging processes of major food-industry customers like Kraft, Hershey, and Nestle. How can our specialists help you?
1Source: Preparedfoods.com, October 2001, "Tracking Food Allergens" by Linda Ohr
Now, how can we help you?
Proven Performance Advantages
Did you know that food allergies result in 30,000 emergency room visits annually in the U.S.2 Yet, in a recent FDA survey, less than 50% of candy, ice cream, and baked-goods manufacturers were employing procedures to control cross-contamination of foods with allergens.3
The Department of Agriculture recommends that food companies adopt SSOPs and proper cleaning practices with careful vacuuming. Only Nilfisk-Advance America’s sophisticated vacuums provide the performance you need and the features you want to make the job easier.
Rugged, heat-resistant accessories – high-temperature wands, nozzles, and Nomex“ filters withstand extreme oven temperatures, allowing you to clean ovens without waiting for them to cool.
Contaminant-free exhaust – HEPA and ULPA filters ensure a decontaminated exhaust stream to prevent allergens/bacteria from re-circulating for increased employee and food safety.
Explosion/static protection – reduce risk when cleaning explosion-prone liquids or pulverized powders such as flour or grain dust with our non-sparking, stainless steel vacuums, available in both electric and pneumatic models. Our anti-static hoses also protect operators from sparks caused by static electricity.
Easy-to-clean design – constructed modularly, our vacuum components are easy to access for fast cleaning in meat, beverage, and dry-food processing plants.
Improved decontamination and sanitization – with corrosion-resistant, stainless-steel vacuums that can be quickly decontaminated with little-to-no trace of food residue. This is particularly important when preventing contamination from the 8 most common food allergens and bacteria.
Simple waste disposal – many of our vacuums feature dropout collection containers, externally cleaned filters, paper bags, ABS collection tank inserts, and polyliners to make waste disposal safer and faster.
User-friendly features – static control accessories, automated filter purging, remote starting, and many other features reduce maintenance steps and hassle for your team.
2 Source: Food Product Design, December 2000, "Battling Allergen Contamination" by Bruce Floyd
3 Source: www.cspinet.org/new/fdaltr_allergens.html, April 2001, "Letter to Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA"
