Fruit sorter designed with food safety, traceability in mind
Compac, a Tomra Food company, has introduced a new sorting platform designed for the future, with a focus on food safety, sanitation and traceability feature.
The Tomra 5S Advanced.is designed for hygienic operation, with tool-free cleaning and sanitization. With its connectivity features, it’s the “digital heart” of packinghouses, according to a news release, and will meet a company’s needs for 10-20 years, with an eye on food safety measures.
“It innovates in the areas that address current and future modern packing requirements,” Sebastian Stoof, vice president and head of product at Compac, said in the release.
The Tomra 5S Advanced allows stricter cleaning and sanitation, delivers consistent reliability through packing seasons and helps companies with traceability by sharing information within the business and across the supply chain, according to the release.
“We gave our engineers the challenge to deliver a step-change in food hygiene and increased efficiency, while improving further on our already excellent food handling and value-for-money proposition,” Ken Moynihan, Compac CEO, said in the release.
He said the company “wanted to reshape the paradigm” with the overhaul of previous sorting technology.
“The TOMRA 5S Advanced strikes the perfect balance to sort a wide variety of fruit types with exceptional accuracy and industry-leading performance,” he said in the release. “It achieves this whilst improving gentle handling, introducing hygienic design principles and maintaining excellent value.”
The sorter, through Tomra Insights, generates operational data and statistics in real-time, even off-site. By enabling the flow of information up and down the supply chain, it helps packinghouses achieve traceability from bin to pack, according to the release.
It was designed with food safety measures in different countries, including the Food and Drug Administration’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety, which recently released new rules on traceability.
“The aim is to leverage technology to enhance traceability, improve predictive analytics, develop smarter tools for prevention and outbreak response, reduce contamination of food and foster the development of stronger food safety cultures,” according to the release.
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