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The IRHACE HVAC Hygiene Best Practise Guideline is one of two documents that are vital for any plant manager in a food factory to know.  

Let us break it down for you.

Understanding ASNZ3666.2 is imperative for any plant manager. We have stripped away the jargon to leave just the important remains. Learn more today.

Are you a factory manager with a headache? We have picked out the two most important standards HVAC to save you the pain.
Read a summary of ASNZ3666.2 and IRHACE HVAC Hygiene Best Practise Guidelines for all you need to know on HVAC hygiene.

No matter how mechanically sound your ventilation system is, you should not be running it in your food production facility, unless it is fully hygienic.

Because dry ice blasting can seem like a very dangerous method of cleaning, people have a lot of queries about it.  
Let us answer 6 of your most pressing questions about the dangers of dry ice blasting.  

In food production, odour can be as big of a food safety risk as foreign matter.

Dry ice blasting cleans and sanitises equally as well as traditional chemicals, without creating any odour issues whatsoever.

In a critical hygiene environment, the air downstream of air supply filters must be clean, right?
Yes, this is absolutely true.
However, factory managers often get an unpleasant surprise when they discover how dirty the air inside their red-line actually is.

Dismantling your plant and getting it outside your critical hygiene zone for deep cleaning, is a right royal pain in the proverbial. Right?
Dry ice blasting allows you to commence cleaning in place as soon as production ceases, and restart production immediately after cleaning finishes.
Read 3 reasons why…

KITCHEN GREASE: the bane of any chef’s life.
Let us answer the questions what is kitchen grease, where does it come from, why is it a problem and how to deal with it.

Attention all food manufacturers.  How often have you asked this question of a cleaning or sanitising chemical…
“Does it leave a residue behind?”

Let us tell you about residue free cleaning – Dry Ice Blasting.

Dry Ice Blasting can be extremely gentle on any substrate being cleaned. All other forms of blasting media are abrasive to a greater or lesser degree.

Dry Ice Blasting can make you a better plant manager!
By reducing the time and activities on the shoulders of the actual cleaning time, Dry Ice Blasting reduces the total cost of cleaning substantially.

Sanitizing food preparation surfaces after cleaning them is Food Safety 101, right?
What effect would it have on your bottom line if your cleaning process cleaned AND sanitized in one pass?!

Water and electricity don’t mix.

But as we all know that doesn’t mean electrical plant and equipment doesn’t get dirty and need cleaning up from time to time. This has always proved a difficult and time-consuming process, until Dry Ice Blasting…..

I don’t think I have ever seen a cleaning method this good for the environment.  Period.  Here’s why.

Dry Ice Blasting recycles and reuses carbon-dioxide before it is released back into the environment.

WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO USE WATER FOR CLEANING?
Well, there are a few reasons. Learn 4 of them here.

Dealing with secondary waste on most industrial sites is a real headache.  It can’t be released into waterways or put into the ground, it often must be collected up and disposed of at an approved waste facility – all rather costly.

DRY ICE BLASTING PRODUCES ZERO SECONDARY WASTE!

We’ve all grown used to powerful chemicals being used for industrial cleaning.  
Yet they have so many associated health risks that you’d think that in this day and age of Health and Safety compliance they’d be gone!

The fact is, some things just can’t be cleaned without them, right?
Well, let me introduce you to a little secret called ” Dry Ice Blasting”.

It’s official!  Shepherd Filters are the best extraction hood grease filter on the planet.

1. WATERLESS CLEANING
2. CLEANS HOT PLANT
3. ZERO SECONDARY WASTE

Our Dry Ice Blasting service showed its face in Food Technology’s special November issue – “Create Clean.”  

Didn’t get the magazine? Read the article here.

Discover six problems with standard metal grease filters and, more importantly, the six solutions Shepherd Filters provide.

Watch Matthew give you a brief introduction to Shepherd Filters. The special product provides an innovative and sustainable solution for your extraction system filtration.

Let Matthew show you how easy and fast changing a Shepherd Filter can be!

One of the many benefits of Shepherd Filters is the savings created by only changing each filter when needed.
But how do you know when to change them? Watch this short video where Matthew explains when to change your Shepherd Filters.

Every kitchen is unique, therefore Shepherd Filters help everyone to different extents.  Curious to discover how much money your own kitchen can save using this fantastic product?  Fill out the calculator below and become as excited as we are!

Wanting to learn how easy it is to change a Shepherd Filter?

It will take you less than 1 minute!! Follow these 5 simple instructions.

DRY ICE BLASTING = SUSTAINABILITY I don’t think I have ever seen a cleaning method as good for the environment as Dry Ice Blasting is.  Period.  Here’s why. Dry Ice Blasting recycles and re-uses carbon-dioxide before it is released back into the environment. Dry Ice is harvested carbon dioxide, a natural gas that is a by-product of […]

YES YOU CAN ACHIEVE RESULTS WITH CHEMICAL-FREE CLEANING Chemical-free cleaning sounds a bit risky, doesn’t it? We’ve all grown used to powerful solvents, alkalies and acids being used for industrial cleaning. Yet they have so many associated health risks that you’d think that in this day and age of Health and Safety compliance they’d be gone! The fact […]

E-coli bacteria You have a filtered air supply system? The the filters were recently changed out? Should be all compliant then? Sorry team, its not quite that easy. Particulate matter is coming through those air filters, as we speak! To quote this Camfil article,  with outdoor air carrying 200 to 1,500 bacteria per cubic metre, an […]