Free EHEDG Webinar 'Applying hygienic design to water distribution systems'
On March 21, 16:00 - 17:00 CET, EHEDG Authorised Trainer and Technical Support Specialist at Ecolab Latin America Alex Maroto explains how (a lack of) hygienic design in water distribution systems can affect food safety in industrial food processing. This webinar includes real industry examples and references to the relevant EHEDG Guidelines. It comprises a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2V94jqk

Free EHEDG Webinar 'Applying hygienic design to water distribution systems'
On March 21, 16:00 - 17:00 CET, EHEDG Authorised Trainer and Technical Support Specialist at Ecolab Latin America Alex Maroto explains how (a lack of) hygienic design in water distribution systems can affect food safety in industrial food processing. This webinar includes real industry examples and references to the relevant EHEDG Guidelines. It comprises a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2V94jqk

EHEDG Connects Webinar "Cleaning and Disinfection"
EHEDG launches a new series of free EHEDG Connects Webinars. On February 22 at 4 p.m. CET, EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection Chair Dirk Nikoleiski (Food Safety Director at EHEDG Company Member Commercial Food Sanitation) shares his expertise on cleaning & disinfection in food manufacturing. His presentation will be followed up by a 30-minute live Q&A session. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6203211936112170327

The Hygienic Design Innovators of Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak Product Development Engineers Magnus Gullberg and Pär Ström provide unique insights in how they tackled hygienic design challenges to obtain an EHEDG Certificate for their new Tetra Pak Hygienic Design Tubular Heat Exchanger (to clarify: there is a standard in 3-A for tubular heat exchangers and Tetra Pak have followed it and have been 3-A approved since 2008 for this specific tubular heat exchanger model). More information on how to also obtain an EHEDG Certificate for your product: https://www.ehedg.org/certification-testing/general-information/how-to-get-certified.

EHEDG ZOOMS IN: Mechanical Seals
EHEDG ZOOMS IN on Section 4.5 of EHEDG Guideline Document 25 'Mechanical Seals for Aseptic and Hygienic Applications', with EHEDG Working Group Member Harald Tobies. Are you an EHEDG Working Group Member? Contact us at editorial@ehedg.org to be featured in one of the upcoming editions of EHEDG ZOOMS IN. Are you an expert too? Join an EHEDG Working Group today.

The Hygienic Design Strategy of WIKA
WIKA Global Market Segment Manager Food & Pharma Joachim Zipp talks about hygienic design product development, the EHEDG Membership value, and the benefit of contributing to EHEDG Guideline development processes. Do you also want to get more involved in exchanging expertise and best practices about (and yield the benefits of) hygienic design? Then contact us today.

The Expert Perspective: learn to see like the experts see
The Expert Perspective: one image + one hygienic design expert. Learn to see like the experts see, with Juliane Dias, Food Safety and Quality Communicator at EHEDG Company Member Flavor Food Consulting. Do you also have an image that illustrates hygienic design flaws? Send it to editorial@ehedg.org - subject: The Expert Perspective. Image provided by Flavor Food Consulting / Image publication approved for educational purposes. Studio background animation: Nawaz Alamgir

EHEDG World Congress 2022
Food and food equipment industry professionals from all over the world gathered in Munich to attend the 2022 edition of the EHEDG World Congress. The congress clearly showed that hygienic engineering and design is now globally acknowledged as a crucial contributor to consistent food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. EHEDG Regional Section Germany, EHEDG Head Office team and sponsors: thank you for this great event!

First CPO adopts hygienic design benchmarking requirements in auditing standard
The first Certification Program Owner (CPO) adopted GFSI Hygienic Design Benchmarking Requirements JII into its auditing standard. Will other CPOs follow? 'This is the biggest change for hygienic design in my lifetime', says Dr. John Holah [EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group]. Dr. Holah is the Principal Corporate Scientist Food Safety & Public Health at Kersia, and Honorary Professor of Food Safety and Hygienic Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University. To attend the presentation of Dr. John Holah, register for the EHEDG World Congress 2022: www.ehedg-congress.org

Ying (Amy) Hong [SIEMENS]: 'Face the challenges and grab the chance'
'With the Internet of Things (IoT), we are entering a new era, and we should face the challenges and grab the chances' - Amy Ying Hong, Innovation & Digitalisation Manager at Siemens, explains how IoT changes hygienic production. Where? At the EHEDG World Congress 2022 in Munich of course, on October 12 & 13 in Munich, Germany. Check out the full programme and register today: www.ehedg-congress.org

Clean steam for optimal hygiene and safe food
Many underestimate the correlation between steam and food safety/quality. EHEDG Connects ZOOMS IN on Section 9.4 of EHEDG Guideline Document 28 that offers a deep dive into hygienic design and steam treatment. Thank you Francisco Pedrosa, Business Development Manager at Spirax Sarco, for your explanation and your contribution to EHEDG Guideline Document 28 "Safe and Hygienic Treatment, Storage and Distribution of Water in Food and Beverage Factories". Other contributors to this guideline are: Chair Anett Winkler (Cargill), Joerg Berger (Krones AG), Michael Corkery (SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions), Emma Maguire De Alwis (Campden BRI), Laurie Gilmore (The Coca-Cola Company), Josep Molas, David Newgreen CEng FICE (PepsiCo), Dirk Nikoleiski (Commercial Food Sanitation L.L.C.), Dirk Scheu, Rüdiger Schlenk (Nalco Deutschland GmbH). Did you also contribute to a specific section of an EHEDG Guideline? Contact us at editorial@ehedg.org for an interview to zoom in on your section and promote the work of your EHEDG Working Group.

The Hygienic Design Innovators: Endress+Hauser Flow
Development engineer Michael Burger shares his experiences with hygienic design product development and the EHEDG certification process. Thanks to EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer Alan Friis (FORCE Technology) for selecting this EHEDG certified component. If you want to draw our attention to another EHEDG certified component that you consider to be particularly innovative for the food industry, just contact us at editorial@ehedg.org, and we'll see what we can do.

Hygienic Design Top Tips: Bengt Eliasson - Tetra Pak
Today's 'Hygienic Design Top Tip' comes from Bengt Eliasson, Manager Centre of Expertise Dairy Ambient at Tetra Pak. What's your Hygienic Design Top Tip? Share it in a comment, or send your own recording to editorial@ehedg.org

Food safety stories - learning from mistakes
EHEDG Connects Webinar 'Food Safety Stories: learning from mistakes', by Peter Overbosch: June 2 at 11 a.m. CET > Register here > In this EHEDG Connects Webinar, Peter Overbosch shares food safety stories collected in a new book publication titled 'Short food safety stories - a collection of real life experiences'. This is a 1 hour webinar, starting with a 30 minute presentation, followed up by a 30 minute live Q&A session. The short stories are written, edited and compiled by Peter Overbosch (former Vice-President Quality at METRO AG, Director Quality EU at Kraft/Mondelēz International, VP Quality Nabisco, and Head Food Quality Assurance Group at Unilever), Yasmine Motarjemi (former Corporate Food Safety Manager at Nestlé, Assistant Vice President and Senior Scientist in the World Health Organization) and Huub Lelieveld (former EHEDG President and current President of the Global Harmonization Initiative, served on the Governing Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) and was Chair of the IFT Nonthermal Processing Division and International divisions of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

How safe and hygienic are your electrical enclosures?
How safe and hygienic are your electrical enclosures? Theo Gerritzen, Product Manager Rittal, zooms in on hygienic design features of electrical cabinets. The hunger for more and more process data leads to greater number of electrical cabinets in food production environments. In this interview, Gerritzen points out how well-designed electrical cabinets can contribute to minimise food safety hazards in food processing environments.

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Endress+Hauser
Learn how EHEDG Company Member Endress+Hauser Group incorporates hygienic engineering and design into its business development strategy - with Tim Schrodt, Regional Industry Manager Europe Food and Beverages Endress+Hauser. Download the latest EHEDG Guideline Document on the hygienic design, integration and application of sensors here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines (free for all EHEDG members).

EHEDG Hygienic Design Innovators
Once a month, EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officers (AEOs) single out one recently EHEDG certified component that they consider to be particularly innovative. In this episode of EHEDG Hygienic Design Innovators: Harri Salo & Marcus Kavaljer [KxS Technologies] share design tricks that enabled them to obtain an EHEDG Certificate for their innovative inline optical Brix monitor. Apply their tips & contact your regional EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer (AEO) to also innovate more effectively.

Meet your new fellow EHEDG Member
In Q1/2022, EHEDG welcomed 21 new EHEDG Company Members to its ranks. MIX srl unipersonale from Italy is one of them. Other new EHEDG Company Members are: Heartland Food Products Group (United States), PM Food Safety (United States), SIALICO (Mexico), INOCLEAN (Chile) Fluidyne Corporation (India), PT SMART Tbk (Indonesia), G5 Compliance (New Zealand), Betapak Ltd (Turkey), PEYMAK (Turkey), MICRO PNEUMATIC SAS (Italy), EMSENS (France), Invert Robotics (France), SNTC Incorporated (France), Christeyns (Belgium), Matrix (Netherlands), AQ Engineering AB (Sweden), KEM ONE (Germany), Ohly (Germany), Schenck Europe (Germany), STM Conveyor Systems (Poland). If you work for one of the companies listed above, and want to share your hygienic design story with us as well, then please feel free to send an email to editorial@ehedg.org

EHEDG combines tank design & cleaning aspects in new EHEDG Guideline Document 51
EHEDG announces the upcoming EHEDG Guideline Document 51: "Hygienic Design Aspects for Tank and Vessel Cleaning in the food industry" EHEDG Working Group chair Bo Jensen: 'Designing and cleaning your tanks correctly is the most effective way to optimise productivity, and minimise the usage of water, chemicals and energy in plant cleaning. This guideline helps you to achieve that.' Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn and receive a notification once EHEDG Guideline Document 51 is ready for download: https://lnkd.in/ddaCYB8 / Become an EHEDG member to gain free access to all EHEDG Guideline Documents: www.ehedg.org/membership

EHEDG Sub-Committee Communication: what we do and why we need you
We are looking for a new chair for our EHEDG Sub-Committee Communication (voluntary basis). What we do? Press play. Nominate your candidate at: office@ehedg.org / Do you work for an EHEDG member company, experienced in leading teams for business development and contemporary marketing-communication? Are you a true professional, who wants to support EHEDG in moving forward? Eager to unpack the wealth of expertise that is present in this global expert community? Can you represent this Sub-Committee within the EHEDG organisation, convey our communication strategies, and engage other EHEDG volunteers to contribute to communication activities? Are you supported by your company to apply some time to promote the benefits of hygienic engineering and design? Then we would love to meet you, and welcome you on board. Nominate your candidate at: office@ehedg.org

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Bühler
What is the Hygienic Design Strategy of Bühler? Listen to Edyta Margas, Global Head Food Safety Bühler Group and find out. For more information, read the corresponding article in edition 4 of EHEDG Connects Magazine, titled 'The Hygienic Design Strategy - where technology meets food industry needs'

EHEDG Certification News Update - with chair Andy Timperley
'EHEDG launches standard operating procedure for open plant cleaning test', and more news from the EHEDG Working Group Certification - interview with working group chair Andrew Timperley.

EHEDG Webinar Cleaning Validation, Monitoring & Verification
Learn how to establish effective site specific cleaning validation, monitoring, and verification programs in your food manufacturing environment.. Free EHEDG Connects Webinar by Hui Zhang, Hygiene Expert at Unilever Supply Chain Quality Centre, and Chair EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation. When: Feb 16 at 11:00 a.m. CET. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8761113579768285966

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Krones
Dr. Sven Fischer, Head of Corporate Research & Development at EHEDG Company Member Krones, provides a unique insight in the hygienic design strategy of Krones. Dr. Fischer: 'For more than 20 years now, our good contacts with EHEDG have helped us to make good use of new insights in hygienic engineering and design. With these evolving understandings, applied in our research and development activities, we create competitive advantages, for example by minimising cleaning intervals, food waste and the use of cleaning additives, which results in increased productivity and sustainability performances of our food processing equipment.'

EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 4 is here!
The newest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of how food processing and food equipment companies apply hygienic engineering and design as an effective strategy to succeed in the business of food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. More than 100 pages packed with information contain news, expert views and practical industry stories on hygienic engineering and design. A must-read if your company is active in the food, pharmaceutical or machine equipment industry. All EHEDG Connects Magazine editions are freely available to read online and for printing on demand, so check them out (click on the cover images above this player to open each EHEDG Connects Magazine edition).

EHEDG Connects Webinar Recording: Debra Smith - Hygienic Design - Raising the bar
Full recording of the EHEDG Connects Webinar with Debra Smith, Global Hygiene Specialist at EHEDG Company Member Vikan. In this webinar, Debra addresses food processing environment areas that are often neglected and underestimated. Includes recorded Q&A session. Enjoy and learn. Thank you Debra for sharing your insights with this community - very much appreciated!

The networking value of EHEDG
What's the best place to network? Press play and find out. Interview with Maria Francheteau, Communications Department Manager at EHEDG Company Member Polysoude. EHEDG Connects shares best practices in hygienic engineering and design, for all of you who want to learn how to optimise food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. Did your company work on a project that proofs the value of hygienic design? Let us know by dropping us a line at: office@ehedg.org

EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support
EHEDG develops practical guidance for hygienic design benchmarking and risk assessment. Peter Overbosch (former QA Manager Unilever, Kraft Foods International & Metro AG) perfectly puts it into perspective. He also invites Certification Programme Owners to adopt the new GFSI requirements. Overbosch is one of the members of the EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group (HDBS), chaired by EHEDG Vice President Patrick Wouters (Cargill).

Invitation EHEDG President Ludvig Josefsberg
EHEDG President Ludvig Josefsberg invites you to attend the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (Sept. 22-24 / 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEST). Register here (it's free): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Online Congress presentation: hygienic design of walls and floors
Learn how the design of walls and floors affect food safety within food process environments. Interview with Pieter de Haan, Architectural & Engineering Consultant at Stonhard, who is one of the contributing presenters of the upcoming EHEDG Online Congress. His presentation is available on the virtual congress platform, from September 22 to 24, 11:00 - 14:00 CEST. Feel free to register here (it's free): https://lnkd.in/dJX9BdMu

EHEDG Online Congress Keynote Speaker Sustainability
Join the free EHEDG Online Congress (September 22-24), with Keynote Speaker Daniel Daggett. In this interview, the Vice President Corporate Sustainability at Diversey shares his views on hygienic engineering and design, while stressing the importance of having a corporate sustainability program.
Register here for the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (free of charge): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021
Register here for the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (free of charge): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Online Congress Keynote Speaker Food Safety & Quality
Join the free EHEDG Online Congress (22-24 September / 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.) and listen to Keynote Speaker Beatrice Conde-Petit. In this interview, the Food Science Officer at Bühler shares her views on hygienic engineering and design and comments on culture changes within food processing companies and technology providers. Registration link: https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Connects Online Webinar Cleaning Tools
Microbiologist and Global Hygiene Specialist Debra Smith shows you how to apply hygienic design principles to cleaning tools in order to avoid food safety hazards in food processing environments - includes illustrating real-life situations from the food industry working floors.
Where: Online (so anywhere you want) When: September 8 / 2021 at 11 a.m. CEST Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/940959169101579532

New EHEDG Guideline 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'
Sensors can offer great benefits for inline quality control, but they must be designed and applied as described in the new EHEDG Guideline Document 37 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'. Working group chairman Holger Schmidt invites you to join his group and contribute to a follow-up guideline aimed at sensor suppliers, and builders of food processing plants and food processing machines.

Introducing new EHEDG Advisory Board Member Dr. Georg Kalss
Bühler Food Safety Officer and EHEDG Advisory Board Member Dr. Georg Kalss talks about the need to certify entire food processing machines and the importance of training and innovation for sustainable food processing. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG offers hygienic design benchmarking support
Does your hygienic design standard comply with the new GFSI Hygienic Design Benchmarking Requirements? EHEDG develops practical guidance for hygienic design benchmarking and risk assessment. EHEDG Vice-President Patrick Wouters, Global Hygienic Design Lead at Cargill and Chair of the newly established Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group, explains how EHEDG plans to support the food and food equipment industry in living up to future expectations.

New: EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation in the Food Industry
New EHEDG Guideline 'Cleaning Validation in the Food Industry': interview with EHEDG Working Group Chair Hui Zhang (Unilever), about the contents, new format and practical value of this new guideline update.
The new EHEDG Guideline Document will be freely available for all EHEDG members here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
The new EHEDG Guideline Document will be freely available for all EHEDG members here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines

Tetra Pak protects what's good with EHEDG
Tetra Pak Vice President Business Unit Liquid Food Frederik Wellendorph talks about the unique selling point of hygienic design, the added value of co-innovation, and his new role in the EHEDG Advisory Board.

Hygienic Design in Portugal: EHEDG Regional Section Portugal
Video-interview with Prof. Dr. Margarida Cortez Vieira, Chair of the EHEDG Regional Sector Portugal, who also coordinates the Food Processing Group in the Food Engineering Department at the University of Algarve. As a professor, Margarida teaches food related product development, packaging, emergent preservation processes and industrial plant design. Her research on food preservation emergent technologies (single/combined processes such as ultrasounds, UV-c radiation and controlled release packaging with micro/nano encapsulated anti oxidant/microbial mediterranean plant extracts) have been published in more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

EHEDG Regional Section Australia at Work
Rick de Sousa, Chair EHEDG Regional Section Australia, provides insights in the Australian food and food equipment industry and the activities of EHEDG in Australia. After having established the foundations for an EHEDG membership network in Australia, Rick de Sousa will make his chair position of the EHEDG Regional Section Australia available for a suitable successor. Much gratitude is due to Rick for promoting EHEDG in Australia. By consistently pointing out the value of EHEDG to the Australian food and food equipment industry, Rick substantially contributed to the further advancement of hygienic engineering and design in his part of the world. On Rick’s own request, EHEDG invites its members in Australia to nominate food industry professionals, consultants or equipment developers, as well as members of the Academia stationed in Australia to take over the chair position of EHEDG in Australia. Rick has kindly agreed to offer his support to his successor by introducing him/her to the fresh and growing EHEDG Regional Section in Australia.

EHEDG New Zealand offers
Hygienic engineering and design in New-Zealand: video-interview with David Lowry, Chair of the EHEDG Regional Sector New Zealand, who talks about the characteristics of the regional food and food processing equipment industry and of upcoming events and new EHEDG training offerings in New Zealand.

EHEDG Regional Section Italy
EHEDG Regional Section Italy Chair Giampaolo Betta provides insights in the activities of EHEDG in Italy, where hygienic design food processing equipment is highly evolved, and food industries rely on EHEDG expertise to apply the right level of hygienic design in brown- and greenfield projects.

EHEDG Connects Webinar on Conveyor Technology
In this free 45 minute EHEDG Connects Webinar you'll learn how to utilise hygienic design conveyor systems to improve food safety, quality, productivity and sustainability - by Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler (Commercial Food Sanitation L.L.C.) Please feel free to share your feedback on www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg
[EHEDG Disclaimer]:
The presentations shared within the EHEDG Connects Webinar streaming and publication format are scrutinised by the EHEDG Working Group Training and Education to ensure compliance with current EHEDG Guideline Documentation. However, the invited webinar presenters themselves remain solely responsible for their presentation and Q&A session statements, and thus do not speak on behalf of the EHEDG organisation.

Behind the scenes of the new EHEDG Office in Naarden (NL)
Operations Director Adwy van den Berg RM and Communication Officer Cristina Annoni invite you to connect. Press play for video >

James Hartley, EHEDG Advisory Board & Associate Director Global Sanitation Mondelēz International.
Interview with new EHEDG Advisory Board Member James Hartley, Associate Director Global Sanitation Mondelēz International. James (EHEDG Members may call him Jim) is a food manufacturing professional with decades of experience in quality, food safety and technical management. He currently leads the Global Sanitation Organisation with Mondelēz International and recently joined the EHEDG Advisory Board.

EHEDG Connects Webinar Conveyor Technology
In this free 45 minute EHEDG Connects Webinar you'll learn how to utilise hygienic design conveyor systems to improve food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability - by Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler (Commercial Food Sanitation). The webinar starts on May 18 at 11 a.m CEST. After a 25 minute presentation, Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler will gladly answer all of your questions. Watch the video-interview with Roger Scheffler for more info, and register here: https://lnkd.in/eeidb7X

EHEDG Webinar: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages CIP Optimisation
EHEDG launches a new series of free webinars. On April 14, Subramani A, Corporate QA Manager of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, Bottling Investment Group, The Coca-Cola Company, will share results and key learning points of a CIP Time Variation Reduction Project that involves strengthening of Hygienic Engineering and Design & CIP Program logics. This project successfully drives food safety, productivity and sustainability improvements at Coca-Cola bottling plants. It was replicated in 7 bottling plants in India and won several sustainability awards (play video interview below for more info and register soon).
The webinar starts on April 14 at 11 a.m CET (GMT+01). Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4936481067433410061
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Webinar Program (45 minutes):
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Presentation (25 minutes):
- 3 step CIP time: standard & variable step timings
- key causes for surplus time in key variable steps
- top 6 actions implemented
- final rinse flow variation identification & actions
- CIP Time Variation Reduction Project implementation in 7 plants.
Q&A-session (20 minutes):
The presenter will provide answers to the most interesting/intelligent/relevant questions.
The webinar starts on April 14 at 11 a.m CET (GMT+01). Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4936481067433410061
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Webinar Program (45 minutes):
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Presentation (25 minutes):
- 3 step CIP time: standard & variable step timings
- key causes for surplus time in key variable steps
- top 6 actions implemented
- final rinse flow variation identification & actions
- CIP Time Variation Reduction Project implementation in 7 plants.
Q&A-session (20 minutes):
The presenter will provide answers to the most interesting/intelligent/relevant questions.

EHEDG Guideline Document 17: 'Hygienic design requirements for pumps, homogenisers and pulsation-dampers'.
Newly updated and ready for download: EHEDG Guideline Document 17: 'Hygienic design requirements for pumps, homogenisers and pulsation-dampers'.
The members of the EHEDG Working Group Pumps developed a new guideline revision. Working Group Chairman Ralf Stahlkopf (GEA Group) explains what's new (press play).
The latest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine also contains an article on this new EHEDG Guideline Document. Find it here: www.ehedg.org/connects (direct link to article: https://lnkd.in/d8-QzaZ )
Get your copy of EHEDG Guideline Document 17: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
(free download for all EHEDG members after login).
The members of the EHEDG Working Group Pumps developed a new guideline revision. Working Group Chairman Ralf Stahlkopf (GEA Group) explains what's new (press play).
The latest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine also contains an article on this new EHEDG Guideline Document. Find it here: www.ehedg.org/connects (direct link to article: https://lnkd.in/d8-QzaZ )
Get your copy of EHEDG Guideline Document 17: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
(free download for all EHEDG members after login).

New Guideline 'Food Safety in the Supply Chain'
"Many food processing companies underestimate the food safety risks of price-driven transportation choices", states the International Association Supply Chain Safety ENFIT in its new 'Food Safety in the Supply Chain' guideline. Watch the EHEDG Connects interview with ENFIT President Hans-Dieter Philipowski.

New: EHEDG Connects Magazine III
Check out the new edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine, with 76 pages full of industry best practices in hygienic engineering and design, news on EHEDG Guideline, Certification, Training and Education developments, expert discussions and much more. The best holiday read you will find. Click on the banner above to read it online or ask your EHEDG Regional Section for a print copy.

Orbital welding: optimisation by collaboration
Following up on the publication of EHEDG Guideline Document 54 on the 'Testing of Hygienic Weld Joints', EHEDG Connects visited welding specialist and EHEDG Company Member Polysoude S.A.S. in Nantes, France, to investigate an upcoming trend in the world of welding: orbital welding. Compared to manual welding, orbital welding promises to offer more consistent welding results at lower costs and a better scalability. But what about the limitations? EHEDG Connects raised some critical questions, and took a closer look on the working floor. Please feel free to comment: what's you opinion on orbital welding?

EHEDG Guideline Document 25: Mechanical Seals for Hygienic and Aseptic Applications
EHEDG published a comprehensive update of EHEDG Guideline Document 25 'Mechanical Seals for Hygienic and Aseptic Applications'. In this interview, EHEDG Working Group Chair Thomas Böhm shares his view on the contents, the practical value and the relevance of this new guideline update. EHEDG Guideline Document 25 is freely available for all EHEDG members as a download from the EHEDG website. Please feel free to congratulate the following EHEDG Working Group members, who put their hearts and minds into developing this guideline in order to contribute to safe food production: Susanne Berezin (Hunseal AB, Sweden), Maik Bluhm (Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, Germany), Thomas Böhm (Eagle Burgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG), Hakan Christensen (SEALWAY AB, Sweden), Dr. Roland Cocker (Cocker Consulting Ltd. Ireland), Andreas Eiletz (Eagle Burgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG) Rico Gonser (Goditec, Germany) Jesper Raabjerg Jensen (Alfa Laval Kolding A/S, Denmark), Kamesh Narayanaswamy (John Crane, UK) Henrik Nedlich (Roplan AB, Sweden), Anette Rangmark (Alfa Laval Tumba AB, Sweden), Andy Timperley (Timperley Consultant, UK) Harald Tobies (METAX Kupplungs- und Dichtungstechnik, Germany), Dr. Karl-Johan Westin (Roplan Inc., USA).

EHEDG presents: Operational Director Adwy van den Berg
The European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group is delighted to introduce to all of its members the new EHEDG Operational Director Adwy van den Berg. Adwy is currently building up a new team for the EHEDG Secretariat in Naarden (The Netherlands), which will take over the daily operations of EHEDG starting on January 1, 2021. Apart from finalising the transition to Naarden, Adwy is responsible for leading and managing the EHEDG operations, including office staff, consultants ans suppliers, establishing and supporting EHEDG working groups, technical committees and regions, supporting the EHEDG Executive Committee and Advisory Board, and assuring that the values, brand and activities of EHEDG are consitently communicated to its members and stakeholders.

Hygienic production of enzymes, supported by EHEDG
Former Maintenance Manager Henrik Nordbo explains why Novozymes is an EHEDG Company Member and how this Danish enzyme producer applies EHEDG Guideline and EHEDG Training services to ensure that food processes kick off in the most effective and hygienic ways. Nordbo: "We don't produce food ourselves, but we live up to the EHEDG guidelines so we can effectively support our customers in their efforts to consistently produce safe and high quality food products."

New EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 Hygienic Design Requirements for Bakery Equipment
This German version of the video-interview with EHEDG Working Group Bakery Equipment Chair Dr. Jürgen Hofmann is a tribute to the original German EHEDG Working Group: "Diese lange erwartete Guideline fokussiert sich auf die spezifische hygienic design Anforderungen für Bäckereimaschinen, und ist die Ernte eines langen Entwicklungsprozesses nachdem die Deutsche Bäckerei-Industrie in 2012 mit Kontaminationen konfrontiert wurde. Arbeitsgruppenvorsitz Dr. Jürgen Hofmann erklärt warum diese EHEDG Guideline lesenswert ist für alle die sich mit industriellen Bäckereien beschäftigen. EHEDG Mitglieder können die EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 gratis von der EHEDG website herunterladen: www.ehedg.org/guidelines."

New EHEDG Guideline: Hygienic Design Requirements for Bakery Equipment
EHEDG Working Group Bakery Equipment proudly presents EHEDG Guideline Document 55. This long-awaited EHEDG Guideline, which addresses specific hygienic design requirements for bakery equipment, is the result of a development process that started back in 2013, when the German bakery industry was shaken up by a major contamination incident. Working Group Chairman Dr. Jürgen Hofmann explains why he thinks this EHEDG Guideline Document is a must-read for everyone affiliated with industrial bakeries. All EHEDG Members are invited to download EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 from the EHEDG website: www.ehedg.org/guidelines.

New EHEDG Guideline Doc. 34: 'Integrating Hygienic Entities'
Integrate food processing equipment correctly, with the upcoming new EHEDG Guideline Document 34 on 'Integrating Hygienic Entities'. In this video-interview, EHEDG Working Group Chair Roland Cocker stresses the value of this new EHEDG Guideline Document for optimising food safety, productivity and sustainability parameters of food processing lines. Cocker addresses topics like design freeze, verification, validation and qualification procedures, and the aligning of analytical procedures and operational instructions. Stay connected to receive an update as soon as EHEDG Guideline Doc. 34 is ready for download: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection: David Childs
No effective cleaning and disinfection without effective cleaning and disinfection procedures. David Childs, Technical Service Manager at Holchem Laboratories, explains why he shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Holchem Laboratories encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that offers valuable cleaning & disinfection principles to the global food industry (video recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak). EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c

Hygienic Design Lifetime Economics & Technical Collaboration
In this EHEDG Connects 'Ask an EHEDG Expert' interview, metallurgist Eric Partington (Effex) explains how food processing companies and their suppliers can optimise the lifetime economics of their hygienic design applications. Eric is European consultant to the Nickel Institute of Toronto, member of UK Institute of Brewing & Distilling and Chairman of EHEDG Regional Section UK and Ireland as well as of EHEDG Working Group Materials of Construction that developed EHEDG Guideline Document 32 on the use of materials of construction for equipment in contact with food.

New EHEDG Guideline Update: Hygienic Design & Application of Sensors
EHEDG Working Groups Sensors is currently finalising a comprehensive (130+ pages) update of EHEDG Guideline Document 37 on the 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'. In this video-interview, EHEDG Working Group Chairman Holger Schmidt reveals a tip of the veil of the guideline contents, and explains how it will serve EHEDG members who wish to design and apply sensor technology without compromising on food safety and quality performances.

Digitisation of food processing management for optimising food safety & productivity
In this EHEDG Connects video interview, Hermann Schalk (CSB AG) shares his insights in digital food processing management and how food processing companies can benefit from digitising their processes with regard to the food safety, food quality and productivity results of hygienic design.

EHEDG Regional Section Mexico: secrets for success
News update on the EHEDG activities in Mexico, from the perspectives of EHEDG Regional Section Mexico Chairman Marco Antonio León Félix and two regionally active suppliers of hygienic design equipment (Kevin O'Connell Zamora, Director General Mexico ACO Group & Thorvald Lynggaard (Trading Company Dantec). Follow EHEDG on Social Media: LinkedIn: https:www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG South Africa welcomes new company member Tiger Brands
EHEDG Connects Online news update on the accession of South-African packaged goods producer Tiger Brands. EHEDG Regional Section Chairman Peet Grobler talks with Tiger Brands Group Manufacturing Excellence and Quality Director Ntombenhle Mabuza about Tiger Brands' motives to become an EHEDG Company Member, the value of EHEDG for the company and the collaboration between Tiger Brands and EHEDG South Africa.

Hygienic welding: the value of collaboration in the supply chain
EHEDG expert panel discussion on hygienic welding - edition II "Result-optimising stakeholder collaboration." Hygienic welding experts Hans-Peter Mariner and Kees Meurs of orbital welding company Polysoude respond to a statement made in the previous edition of this EHEDG expert forum discussion: "Hygienic properties of welding results are greatly determined by the level of collaboration between all stakeholders involved in the welding process." Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Follow EHEDG on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG establishes Taskforce Food Industry Resilience
The chairman of the newly established EHEDG Taskforce Food Industry Resilience invites EHEDG members to share their practical applications of governmental coronavirus-related workplace regulations, in a unified effort to minimise health risks for food industry workers and to maximise the resilience of the food industry during the pandemic. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg & Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Expert Forum Hygienic Welding
EHEDG Expert Forum on the why and how of hygienic welding. The EHEDG Working Group Hygienic Welding is currently working on a new EHEDG Guideline Hygienic Welding. In this EHEDG Connects Forum, the chairman of the EHEDG Working Group Hygienic Welding Peter Merhof (GEA) discusses hygienic welding with Thomas Kopitzke (Encoma) and John Wahlers (Stream Engineering Solutions).
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AEO Alan Friis: "Systematic integration of hygienic design offers significant benefits""
EHEDG Connects video interview with mechanical engineer and hygienic design consultant Alan Friis, Teamleader at the Center of Hygienic Design (Force Technology). Alan is also an EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer (AEO) and a member of the EHEDG Working Group System Integration which is currently finalising a newly update EHEDG Guideline. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Follow EHEDG on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Connects Rick de Sousa, Chairman EHEDG Regional Section Australia
EHEDG Connects video update on the activities of the newly established EHEDG Regional Section Australia. Regional Section Chairman Rick de Sousa shares his views on how to effectively convey the value of the EHEDG Product Portfolio to industry stakeholders in Australia.

EHEDG Connects: Debra Smith, Global Hygiene Specialist at Vikan
"After the health workers, food producers are the second most critical to this Covid-19 response. Ensuring their health and wellbeing is key." Microbiologist and Vikan Global Hygiene Specialist Debra Smith answers questions on SARS-CoV-2 control to protect food industry workers. Debra is an active Committee Member of the UK regional section of the European Hygienic Engineering Design Group and a Fellow of the Institute of Food Safety and Technology. “Minimising the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through good cleaning and disinfection practices" (white paper): https://lnkd.in/ecr-_TG “COVID-19: Protecting key food industry workers from infection” (blog post): https://lnkd.in/dxyCEJU Webinar April 28: “How can the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission be minimised through cleaning and disinfection”: https://lnkd.in/d9Cjvab

Marks and Spencer contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Disinfection
Marks and Spencer Hygiene Technologist and EHEDG Working Group Member Katie Satterthwaite explains why she shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Marks and Spencer supports her to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning and disinfection principles to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn to stay connected: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG Meat Processing Guideline in the making
The EHEDG Working Group Meat Processing is currently working on a comprehensive EHEDG Guideline Document that will encompass a wide range of industrial meat processing aspects, from the first cutting stages after slaughtering up to final meat processing. In this video, the chair of the EHEDG Working Group Meat Processing Marija Zunabovic-Pichler (Senior Scientist at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) explains how EHEDG approaches the development of this new type of process-oriented guideline and how her working group members tackle various challenges. EHEDG will post an update as soon as this guideline is completed and ready for use by all EHEDG members. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn and Twitter to stay up-to-date: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg. | Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Training & Education News
In this EHEDG Connects News Update, Co-Chairman of the EHEDG Training & Education Working Group Rafa Soro shares the upcoming plans to bring EHEDG Training and Education services into the digital domain. Follow EHEDG on Social Media: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg & www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG offers new design tool to support authorised testing laboratories
EHEDG is about to offer a new method for assessing the cleanability of open food processing equipment components. EHEDG Executive Committee Member Tracy Schonrock explains how this new design tool service enforces the good repute of the EHEDG certification scheme by helping EHEDG Authorized Testing Laboratories to standardize their equipment testing procedures.

The networking value of EHEDG
A real-life example of the networking value of EHEDG: the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning and Disinfection recently invited Eric Lechat from Eltech Equipements to give a presentation on the application scope of UVC-disinfection (ultraviolet C light) systems to disinfect water, surfaces and air. The new EHEDG Cleaning and Disinfection Guideline will contain a chapter on this technology, and will help food producers to optimise food safety, quality and productivity, whilst minimising the usage of water, energy and chemicals. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as the new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning and Disinfection is ready for download.

Food Safety Expert contributes to EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Validation
Food Safety Expert and Hygienic Design Consultant Lammert Baas contributes with his experience to several EHEDG Working Groups, including the one that is currently completing a new EHEDG Cleaning & Validation Guideline. He explains how food producers can benefit from sharing their specific food safety challenges with food safety experts in the EHEDG knowledge community. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as the new EHEDG Cleaning & Validation Guideline is ready for download.

Diversey contributes to EHEDG Guidelines
Global Sector Specialist Hein Timmerman explains why his company Diversey encourages him to share his expertise in the EHEDG Working Groups Cleaning and Disinfection and Cleaning-In-Place (CIP), and how the global food industry can utilize the new EHEDG Guideline Documents to optimize their food safety, food quality and productivity, whilst minimizing water and energy usage.

CFS contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Disinfection
CFS Senior Food Safety Specialist and EHEDG Working Group Chair Dirk Nikoleiski explains why she shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Commercial Food Sanitation encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning and disinfection insights to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c

How to implement EHEDG hygienic design expertise in your company
Hygiene Manager Barbara Amon explains how she introduced EHEDG hygienic design expertise to Agrana Starch in Gmünd, and thereafter, by engaging her colleagues, to other Agrana Starch production plants in Austria.

GSF contributes to EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation
GSF Sales Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Member Olivier Couraud explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why GSF encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning validation principles to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG also on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

Alfa Laval contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Tank Cleaning
Alfa Laval Research and Development Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Chair Dr. Bo Boye Busk Jensen explains why he shares his expertise with the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Alfa Laval supported and encouraged him to contribute to the development of a new EHEDG Guideline that offers a comprehensive overview of hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment.

Ecolab contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation
Ecolab Application Manager and EHEDG Working Group Member Thomas Tyborksi explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why Ecolab encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable validation principles to the global food industry.

Lechler GmbH contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Tank Cleaning
Mechanical Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Member Hansjörg Lutz explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Lechler GmbH encouraged him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment to the food industry.

Cargill contributes to new EHEDG Tank Cleaning Guideline
Cargill Global Hygienic Design Lead Dr. Patrick Wouters explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Cargill encouraged him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment to the food industry.

The challenges of hygienic fish processing
Dr. Sanja Vidaček Filipec (Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, and Chair of EHEDG Working Group Fish Processing) explains the value of combining practical and academic hygienic design knowledge. The corresponding article illustrates how EHEDG Fish Processing Guideline Document 49 helps fish processing companies to secure food safety in their production environments.

EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 2
Our new edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine contains 76 pages filled with expert opinions and best practices. Find out how other food and equipment producers apply hygienic engineering and design. Download, print and distribute EHEDG Connects Magazine to stay connected in 2020! . Download EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 2 here: https://lnkd.in/dsdRV3c . Share your own best practices: introduce them to our EHEDG Connects Editorial Team: editorial@ehedg.org

Engineering food safety: adopting the right mindset
What do hygienic engineers expect from their clients so their agencies can design effective, easily cleanable and safe food factories? Find out what the engineering professionals of EHEDG company member Iv-Industrie (an engineering agency specialized in hygienic engineering and design) have to say about that in this video, and in the corresponding article below.

Video report EHEDG Strategy Meeting
Video report of the EHEDG Strategy Meeting 2019. At this recently held meeting, EHEDG Advisory Board members (who represent food industry stakeholders within the EHEDG foundation) advised EHEDG Foundation Board and EHEDG Executive Committee members in strategic matters.

EHEDG Guideline 23: Food grade H1 and HT1 registered lubricants
The EHEDG Working Group Lubricants has published a comprehensive update of EHEDG Guideline Doc. 23, that teaches us how to properly use (part 1) and produce (part 2) food-grade H1 and HT1 registered lubricants. EHEDG Working Group Lubricants Chairman Taco Mets: “If you don’t want to put your food safety at risk and if you want to optimize the reliability and lifetime of your machines, then only the right lube will do.”

Hygienic design saves traditional brewing process
Brewmaster Hans-Peter Drexler shows how the Schneider Weisse brewery regained full control over its beer quality parameters while staying faithful to its Bavarian brewery traditions. By implementing EHEDG certified hygienic design equipment, the pure taste of Schneider Weisse wheat beer, brewed in line with the German 'Reinheitsgebot' beer purity law since 1872, can be enjoyed by future generations of beer-connoisseurs.

Cargill consults EHEDG Guidelines when making investment decisions
Cargill is one of the world's biggest suppliers of agricultural commodities (150.000 employees in 70 countries). The company improves food safety on a global scale by implementing new hygienic design principles. Haydn Mann, Cargill Director Food Safety and Innovation Protein Europe: 'We continuously gap-analyse our facilities against the newest EHEDG Guideline Documents. It helps us with making future investment decisions.'

The effective food safety culture of Sachsenmilch & Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller
Europe’s biggest dairy plant is situated in the German town of Leppersdorf near Dresden, and it’s a convincing paragon of German engineering and efficiency. The dairy company Sachsenmilch Leppersdorf GmbH (a subsidiary of Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller) produces a wide variety of popular dairy products here. Food safety conditions are optimised with the support of the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group.

EHEDG supports Global Harmonization Initiative
In our globalising food industry, we all benefit from harmonised processes and regulations. That's why the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group supports the Global Harmonization Initiative [GHI]. In this video, EHEDG Subject Matter Experts talk about their contributions to the first GHI World Congress, but only after GHI President and EHEDG Founding Father Dr. Huub Lelieveld welcomes us all with open arms. Enjoy.

Marks and Spencer Senior Hygiene Technologist Katie Satterthwaite
EHEDG attracts companies from all levels of the global food supply chain, like Marks and Spencer, the British multinational retailer that sells clothing, home products, and luxury food products through more than a thousand of its own stores in the UK and almost 1500 stores worldwide. Marks and Spencer Senior Hygiene Technologist Katie Satterthwaite explains why her company became an EHEDG Company Member and why this retailer stimulates its technologists to actively participate in EHEDG Working Groups.

Hugo Piguet, Leading Hygienic Engineering and Design at Nestlé
Hugo Piguet is in charge of hygienic engineering and design at Nestlé, and that's a big responsibility, since Nestlé has 413 factories, operates in 190 countries, and employs 308,000 people worldwide. Piguet: 'Nestlé invites food industry stakeholders to develop systems that comply with the latest EHEDG guidelines, while also offering maximum flexibility and scalability.'

Dr. Roy Kirby, Global Director Food Safety Mondelēz International:
'Sharing knowledge and best practices on food safety should be a non-competitive process, based on trust, just like the collaboration between EHEDG and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). We should all be able to learn from each other's mistakes and share best practices.'

Dr. Ellen Evans, Zero2Five Institute / Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dr. Ellen Evans is interested in the effects of human behaviour on food safety. Her university has a long track record in behavioural and cognitive research and incorporates new insights from other faculties to effectively deliver food safety messages. Ellen Evans: 'Giving people a sense of responsibility is one of the most effective ways to optimise food safety.'

Prof. Dr. Ian Wilson (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge University Professor Dr. Ian Wilson is an expert in cleaning. Together with his fellow scientists of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, he studies the (cleaning) properties of complex fluids and surfaces. Their insights may lead to valuable applications in the food, pharma and chemicals industries. That is why Dr. Wilson is a member of the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning Systems. Find out what he is working on by watching the video.

Bengt Eliasson, Chair EHEDG Working Group Heat Treatment
EHEDG Guideline Doc. 1 and 6 are ready for download! Bengt Eliasson: 'These two completely renewed EHEDG Guidelines on Pasteurisation and Sterilisation of liquid food offer new insights in how to optimise food safety, food quality, productivity and energy efficiency of continuous pasteurisation and ultra-high temperature sterilisation processes.'

Video-interview Patrick Wouters (Cargill)
In this interview, Cargill Global Hygienic Design Leader Dr. Patrick Wouters talks about the value of hygienic engineering and design for Cargill. The EHEDG Vice-President also provides new insights in future EHEDG product portfolio developments.

Tetra Pak contributes to new EHEDG Cleaning Validation Guideline
Tetra Pak Safety & Compliance Expert Isabelle Guillard explains why she shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why Tetra Pak encourages her to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning validation principles to the global food industry (video recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak). EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c

Free EHEDG Webinar 'Applying hygienic design to water distribution systems'
On March 21, 16:00 - 17:00 CET, EHEDG Authorised Trainer and Technical Support Specialist at Ecolab Latin America Alex Maroto explains how (a lack of) hygienic design in water distribution systems can affect food safety in industrial food processing. This webinar includes real industry examples and references to the relevant EHEDG Guidelines. It comprises a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2V94jqk

EHEDG Connects Webinar "Cleaning and Disinfection"
EHEDG launches a new series of free EHEDG Connects Webinars. On February 22 at 4 p.m. CET, EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection Chair Dirk Nikoleiski (Food Safety Director at EHEDG Company Member Commercial Food Sanitation) shares his expertise on cleaning & disinfection in food manufacturing. His presentation will be followed up by a 30-minute live Q&A session. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6203211936112170327

The Hygienic Design Innovators of Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak Product Development Engineers Magnus Gullberg and Pär Ström provide unique insights in how they tackled hygienic design challenges to obtain an EHEDG Certificate for their new Tetra Pak Hygienic Design Tubular Heat Exchanger (to clarify: there is a standard in 3-A for tubular heat exchangers and Tetra Pak have followed it and have been 3-A approved since 2008 for this specific tubular heat exchanger model). More information on how to also obtain an EHEDG Certificate for your product: https://www.ehedg.org/certification-testing/general-information/how-to-get-certified.

EHEDG ZOOMS IN: Mechanical Seals
EHEDG ZOOMS IN on Section 4.5 of EHEDG Guideline Document 25 'Mechanical Seals for Aseptic and Hygienic Applications', with EHEDG Working Group Member Harald Tobies. Are you an EHEDG Working Group Member? Contact us at editorial@ehedg.org to be featured in one of the upcoming editions of EHEDG ZOOMS IN. Are you an expert too? Join an EHEDG Working Group today.

The Hygienic Design Strategy of WIKA
WIKA Global Market Segment Manager Food & Pharma Joachim Zipp talks about hygienic design product development, the EHEDG Membership value, and the benefit of contributing to EHEDG Guideline development processes. Do you also want to get more involved in exchanging expertise and best practices about (and yield the benefits of) hygienic design? Then contact us today.

The Expert Perspective: learn to see like the experts see
The Expert Perspective: one image + one hygienic design expert. Learn to see like the experts see, with Juliane Dias, Food Safety and Quality Communicator at EHEDG Company Member Flavor Food Consulting. Do you also have an image that illustrates hygienic design flaws? Send it to editorial@ehedg.org - subject: The Expert Perspective. Image provided by Flavor Food Consulting / Image publication approved for educational purposes. Studio background animation: Nawaz Alamgir

EHEDG World Congress 2022
Food and food equipment industry professionals from all over the world gathered in Munich to attend the 2022 edition of the EHEDG World Congress. The congress clearly showed that hygienic engineering and design is now globally acknowledged as a crucial contributor to consistent food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. EHEDG Regional Section Germany, EHEDG Head Office team and sponsors: thank you for this great event!

First CPO adopts hygienic design benchmarking requirements in auditing standard
The first Certification Program Owner (CPO) adopted GFSI Hygienic Design Benchmarking Requirements JII into its auditing standard. Will other CPOs follow? 'This is the biggest change for hygienic design in my lifetime', says Dr. John Holah [EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group]. Dr. Holah is the Principal Corporate Scientist Food Safety & Public Health at Kersia, and Honorary Professor of Food Safety and Hygienic Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University. To attend the presentation of Dr. John Holah, register for the EHEDG World Congress 2022: www.ehedg-congress.org

Ying (Amy) Hong [SIEMENS]: 'Face the challenges and grab the chance'
'With the Internet of Things (IoT), we are entering a new era, and we should face the challenges and grab the chances' - Amy Ying Hong, Innovation & Digitalisation Manager at Siemens, explains how IoT changes hygienic production. Where? At the EHEDG World Congress 2022 in Munich of course, on October 12 & 13 in Munich, Germany. Check out the full programme and register today: www.ehedg-congress.org

Clean steam for optimal hygiene and safe food
Many underestimate the correlation between steam and food safety/quality. EHEDG Connects ZOOMS IN on Section 9.4 of EHEDG Guideline Document 28 that offers a deep dive into hygienic design and steam treatment. Thank you Francisco Pedrosa, Business Development Manager at Spirax Sarco, for your explanation and your contribution to EHEDG Guideline Document 28 "Safe and Hygienic Treatment, Storage and Distribution of Water in Food and Beverage Factories". Other contributors to this guideline are: Chair Anett Winkler (Cargill), Joerg Berger (Krones AG), Michael Corkery (SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions), Emma Maguire De Alwis (Campden BRI), Laurie Gilmore (The Coca-Cola Company), Josep Molas, David Newgreen CEng FICE (PepsiCo), Dirk Nikoleiski (Commercial Food Sanitation L.L.C.), Dirk Scheu, Rüdiger Schlenk (Nalco Deutschland GmbH). Did you also contribute to a specific section of an EHEDG Guideline? Contact us at editorial@ehedg.org for an interview to zoom in on your section and promote the work of your EHEDG Working Group.

The Hygienic Design Innovators: Endress+Hauser Flow
Development engineer Michael Burger shares his experiences with hygienic design product development and the EHEDG certification process. Thanks to EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer Alan Friis (FORCE Technology) for selecting this EHEDG certified component. If you want to draw our attention to another EHEDG certified component that you consider to be particularly innovative for the food industry, just contact us at editorial@ehedg.org, and we'll see what we can do.

Hygienic Design Top Tips: Bengt Eliasson - Tetra Pak
Today's 'Hygienic Design Top Tip' comes from Bengt Eliasson, Manager Centre of Expertise Dairy Ambient at Tetra Pak. What's your Hygienic Design Top Tip? Share it in a comment, or send your own recording to editorial@ehedg.org

Food safety stories - learning from mistakes
EHEDG Connects Webinar 'Food Safety Stories: learning from mistakes', by Peter Overbosch: June 2 at 11 a.m. CET > Register here > In this EHEDG Connects Webinar, Peter Overbosch shares food safety stories collected in a new book publication titled 'Short food safety stories - a collection of real life experiences'. This is a 1 hour webinar, starting with a 30 minute presentation, followed up by a 30 minute live Q&A session. The short stories are written, edited and compiled by Peter Overbosch (former Vice-President Quality at METRO AG, Director Quality EU at Kraft/Mondelēz International, VP Quality Nabisco, and Head Food Quality Assurance Group at Unilever), Yasmine Motarjemi (former Corporate Food Safety Manager at Nestlé, Assistant Vice President and Senior Scientist in the World Health Organization) and Huub Lelieveld (former EHEDG President and current President of the Global Harmonization Initiative, served on the Governing Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) and was Chair of the IFT Nonthermal Processing Division and International divisions of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

How safe and hygienic are your electrical enclosures?
How safe and hygienic are your electrical enclosures? Theo Gerritzen, Product Manager Rittal, zooms in on hygienic design features of electrical cabinets. The hunger for more and more process data leads to greater number of electrical cabinets in food production environments. In this interview, Gerritzen points out how well-designed electrical cabinets can contribute to minimise food safety hazards in food processing environments.

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Endress+Hauser
Learn how EHEDG Company Member Endress+Hauser Group incorporates hygienic engineering and design into its business development strategy - with Tim Schrodt, Regional Industry Manager Europe Food and Beverages Endress+Hauser. Download the latest EHEDG Guideline Document on the hygienic design, integration and application of sensors here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines (free for all EHEDG members).

EHEDG Hygienic Design Innovators
Once a month, EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officers (AEOs) single out one recently EHEDG certified component that they consider to be particularly innovative. In this episode of EHEDG Hygienic Design Innovators: Harri Salo & Marcus Kavaljer [KxS Technologies] share design tricks that enabled them to obtain an EHEDG Certificate for their innovative inline optical Brix monitor. Apply their tips & contact your regional EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer (AEO) to also innovate more effectively.

Meet your new fellow EHEDG Member
In Q1/2022, EHEDG welcomed 21 new EHEDG Company Members to its ranks. MIX srl unipersonale from Italy is one of them. Other new EHEDG Company Members are: Heartland Food Products Group (United States), PM Food Safety (United States), SIALICO (Mexico), INOCLEAN (Chile) Fluidyne Corporation (India), PT SMART Tbk (Indonesia), G5 Compliance (New Zealand), Betapak Ltd (Turkey), PEYMAK (Turkey), MICRO PNEUMATIC SAS (Italy), EMSENS (France), Invert Robotics (France), SNTC Incorporated (France), Christeyns (Belgium), Matrix (Netherlands), AQ Engineering AB (Sweden), KEM ONE (Germany), Ohly (Germany), Schenck Europe (Germany), STM Conveyor Systems (Poland). If you work for one of the companies listed above, and want to share your hygienic design story with us as well, then please feel free to send an email to editorial@ehedg.org

EHEDG combines tank design & cleaning aspects in new EHEDG Guideline Document 51
EHEDG announces the upcoming EHEDG Guideline Document 51: "Hygienic Design Aspects for Tank and Vessel Cleaning in the food industry" EHEDG Working Group chair Bo Jensen: 'Designing and cleaning your tanks correctly is the most effective way to optimise productivity, and minimise the usage of water, chemicals and energy in plant cleaning. This guideline helps you to achieve that.' Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn and receive a notification once EHEDG Guideline Document 51 is ready for download: https://lnkd.in/ddaCYB8 / Become an EHEDG member to gain free access to all EHEDG Guideline Documents: www.ehedg.org/membership

EHEDG Sub-Committee Communication: what we do and why we need you
We are looking for a new chair for our EHEDG Sub-Committee Communication (voluntary basis). What we do? Press play. Nominate your candidate at: office@ehedg.org / Do you work for an EHEDG member company, experienced in leading teams for business development and contemporary marketing-communication? Are you a true professional, who wants to support EHEDG in moving forward? Eager to unpack the wealth of expertise that is present in this global expert community? Can you represent this Sub-Committee within the EHEDG organisation, convey our communication strategies, and engage other EHEDG volunteers to contribute to communication activities? Are you supported by your company to apply some time to promote the benefits of hygienic engineering and design? Then we would love to meet you, and welcome you on board. Nominate your candidate at: office@ehedg.org

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Bühler
What is the Hygienic Design Strategy of Bühler? Listen to Edyta Margas, Global Head Food Safety Bühler Group and find out. For more information, read the corresponding article in edition 4 of EHEDG Connects Magazine, titled 'The Hygienic Design Strategy - where technology meets food industry needs'

EHEDG Certification News Update - with chair Andy Timperley
'EHEDG launches standard operating procedure for open plant cleaning test', and more news from the EHEDG Working Group Certification - interview with working group chair Andrew Timperley.

EHEDG Webinar Cleaning Validation, Monitoring & Verification
Learn how to establish effective site specific cleaning validation, monitoring, and verification programs in your food manufacturing environment.. Free EHEDG Connects Webinar by Hui Zhang, Hygiene Expert at Unilever Supply Chain Quality Centre, and Chair EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation. When: Feb 16 at 11:00 a.m. CET. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8761113579768285966

The Hygienic Design Strategy of Krones
Dr. Sven Fischer, Head of Corporate Research & Development at EHEDG Company Member Krones, provides a unique insight in the hygienic design strategy of Krones. Dr. Fischer: 'For more than 20 years now, our good contacts with EHEDG have helped us to make good use of new insights in hygienic engineering and design. With these evolving understandings, applied in our research and development activities, we create competitive advantages, for example by minimising cleaning intervals, food waste and the use of cleaning additives, which results in increased productivity and sustainability performances of our food processing equipment.'

EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 4 is here!
The newest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of how food processing and food equipment companies apply hygienic engineering and design as an effective strategy to succeed in the business of food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. More than 100 pages packed with information contain news, expert views and practical industry stories on hygienic engineering and design. A must-read if your company is active in the food, pharmaceutical or machine equipment industry. All EHEDG Connects Magazine editions are freely available to read online and for printing on demand, so check them out (click on the cover images above this player to open each EHEDG Connects Magazine edition).

EHEDG Connects Webinar Recording: Debra Smith - Hygienic Design - Raising the bar
Full recording of the EHEDG Connects Webinar with Debra Smith, Global Hygiene Specialist at EHEDG Company Member Vikan. In this webinar, Debra addresses food processing environment areas that are often neglected and underestimated. Includes recorded Q&A session. Enjoy and learn. Thank you Debra for sharing your insights with this community - very much appreciated!

The networking value of EHEDG
What's the best place to network? Press play and find out. Interview with Maria Francheteau, Communications Department Manager at EHEDG Company Member Polysoude. EHEDG Connects shares best practices in hygienic engineering and design, for all of you who want to learn how to optimise food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability. Did your company work on a project that proofs the value of hygienic design? Let us know by dropping us a line at: office@ehedg.org

EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support
EHEDG develops practical guidance for hygienic design benchmarking and risk assessment. Peter Overbosch (former QA Manager Unilever, Kraft Foods International & Metro AG) perfectly puts it into perspective. He also invites Certification Programme Owners to adopt the new GFSI requirements. Overbosch is one of the members of the EHEDG Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group (HDBS), chaired by EHEDG Vice President Patrick Wouters (Cargill).

Invitation EHEDG President Ludvig Josefsberg
EHEDG President Ludvig Josefsberg invites you to attend the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (Sept. 22-24 / 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEST). Register here (it's free): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Online Congress presentation: hygienic design of walls and floors
Learn how the design of walls and floors affect food safety within food process environments. Interview with Pieter de Haan, Architectural & Engineering Consultant at Stonhard, who is one of the contributing presenters of the upcoming EHEDG Online Congress. His presentation is available on the virtual congress platform, from September 22 to 24, 11:00 - 14:00 CEST. Feel free to register here (it's free): https://lnkd.in/dJX9BdMu

EHEDG Online Congress Keynote Speaker Sustainability
Join the free EHEDG Online Congress (September 22-24), with Keynote Speaker Daniel Daggett. In this interview, the Vice President Corporate Sustainability at Diversey shares his views on hygienic engineering and design, while stressing the importance of having a corporate sustainability program.
Register here for the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (free of charge): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021
Register here for the EHEDG Online Congress 2021 (free of charge): https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Online Congress Keynote Speaker Food Safety & Quality
Join the free EHEDG Online Congress (22-24 September / 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.) and listen to Keynote Speaker Beatrice Conde-Petit. In this interview, the Food Science Officer at Bühler shares her views on hygienic engineering and design and comments on culture changes within food processing companies and technology providers. Registration link: https://hopin.com/events/ehedg-online-congress-2021

EHEDG Connects Online Webinar Cleaning Tools
Microbiologist and Global Hygiene Specialist Debra Smith shows you how to apply hygienic design principles to cleaning tools in order to avoid food safety hazards in food processing environments - includes illustrating real-life situations from the food industry working floors.
Where: Online (so anywhere you want) When: September 8 / 2021 at 11 a.m. CEST Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/940959169101579532

New EHEDG Guideline 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'
Sensors can offer great benefits for inline quality control, but they must be designed and applied as described in the new EHEDG Guideline Document 37 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'. Working group chairman Holger Schmidt invites you to join his group and contribute to a follow-up guideline aimed at sensor suppliers, and builders of food processing plants and food processing machines.

Introducing new EHEDG Advisory Board Member Dr. Georg Kalss
Bühler Food Safety Officer and EHEDG Advisory Board Member Dr. Georg Kalss talks about the need to certify entire food processing machines and the importance of training and innovation for sustainable food processing. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG offers hygienic design benchmarking support
Does your hygienic design standard comply with the new GFSI Hygienic Design Benchmarking Requirements? EHEDG develops practical guidance for hygienic design benchmarking and risk assessment. EHEDG Vice-President Patrick Wouters, Global Hygienic Design Lead at Cargill and Chair of the newly established Hygienic Design Benchmarking Support Group, explains how EHEDG plans to support the food and food equipment industry in living up to future expectations.

New: EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation in the Food Industry
New EHEDG Guideline 'Cleaning Validation in the Food Industry': interview with EHEDG Working Group Chair Hui Zhang (Unilever), about the contents, new format and practical value of this new guideline update.
The new EHEDG Guideline Document will be freely available for all EHEDG members here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
The new EHEDG Guideline Document will be freely available for all EHEDG members here: www.ehedg.org/guidelines

Tetra Pak protects what's good with EHEDG
Tetra Pak Vice President Business Unit Liquid Food Frederik Wellendorph talks about the unique selling point of hygienic design, the added value of co-innovation, and his new role in the EHEDG Advisory Board.

Hygienic Design in Portugal: EHEDG Regional Section Portugal
Video-interview with Prof. Dr. Margarida Cortez Vieira, Chair of the EHEDG Regional Sector Portugal, who also coordinates the Food Processing Group in the Food Engineering Department at the University of Algarve. As a professor, Margarida teaches food related product development, packaging, emergent preservation processes and industrial plant design. Her research on food preservation emergent technologies (single/combined processes such as ultrasounds, UV-c radiation and controlled release packaging with micro/nano encapsulated anti oxidant/microbial mediterranean plant extracts) have been published in more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

EHEDG Regional Section Australia at Work
Rick de Sousa, Chair EHEDG Regional Section Australia, provides insights in the Australian food and food equipment industry and the activities of EHEDG in Australia. After having established the foundations for an EHEDG membership network in Australia, Rick de Sousa will make his chair position of the EHEDG Regional Section Australia available for a suitable successor. Much gratitude is due to Rick for promoting EHEDG in Australia. By consistently pointing out the value of EHEDG to the Australian food and food equipment industry, Rick substantially contributed to the further advancement of hygienic engineering and design in his part of the world. On Rick’s own request, EHEDG invites its members in Australia to nominate food industry professionals, consultants or equipment developers, as well as members of the Academia stationed in Australia to take over the chair position of EHEDG in Australia. Rick has kindly agreed to offer his support to his successor by introducing him/her to the fresh and growing EHEDG Regional Section in Australia.

EHEDG New Zealand offers
Hygienic engineering and design in New-Zealand: video-interview with David Lowry, Chair of the EHEDG Regional Sector New Zealand, who talks about the characteristics of the regional food and food processing equipment industry and of upcoming events and new EHEDG training offerings in New Zealand.

EHEDG Regional Section Italy
EHEDG Regional Section Italy Chair Giampaolo Betta provides insights in the activities of EHEDG in Italy, where hygienic design food processing equipment is highly evolved, and food industries rely on EHEDG expertise to apply the right level of hygienic design in brown- and greenfield projects.

EHEDG Connects Webinar on Conveyor Technology
In this free 45 minute EHEDG Connects Webinar you'll learn how to utilise hygienic design conveyor systems to improve food safety, quality, productivity and sustainability - by Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler (Commercial Food Sanitation L.L.C.) Please feel free to share your feedback on www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg
[EHEDG Disclaimer]:
The presentations shared within the EHEDG Connects Webinar streaming and publication format are scrutinised by the EHEDG Working Group Training and Education to ensure compliance with current EHEDG Guideline Documentation. However, the invited webinar presenters themselves remain solely responsible for their presentation and Q&A session statements, and thus do not speak on behalf of the EHEDG organisation.

Behind the scenes of the new EHEDG Office in Naarden (NL)
Operations Director Adwy van den Berg RM and Communication Officer Cristina Annoni invite you to connect. Press play for video >

James Hartley, EHEDG Advisory Board & Associate Director Global Sanitation Mondelēz International.
Interview with new EHEDG Advisory Board Member James Hartley, Associate Director Global Sanitation Mondelēz International. James (EHEDG Members may call him Jim) is a food manufacturing professional with decades of experience in quality, food safety and technical management. He currently leads the Global Sanitation Organisation with Mondelēz International and recently joined the EHEDG Advisory Board.

EHEDG Connects Webinar Conveyor Technology
In this free 45 minute EHEDG Connects Webinar you'll learn how to utilise hygienic design conveyor systems to improve food safety, food quality, productivity and sustainability - by Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler (Commercial Food Sanitation). The webinar starts on May 18 at 11 a.m CEST. After a 25 minute presentation, Food Safety Specialist Roger Scheffler will gladly answer all of your questions. Watch the video-interview with Roger Scheffler for more info, and register here: https://lnkd.in/eeidb7X

EHEDG Webinar: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages CIP Optimisation
EHEDG launches a new series of free webinars. On April 14, Subramani A, Corporate QA Manager of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, Bottling Investment Group, The Coca-Cola Company, will share results and key learning points of a CIP Time Variation Reduction Project that involves strengthening of Hygienic Engineering and Design & CIP Program logics. This project successfully drives food safety, productivity and sustainability improvements at Coca-Cola bottling plants. It was replicated in 7 bottling plants in India and won several sustainability awards (play video interview below for more info and register soon).
The webinar starts on April 14 at 11 a.m CET (GMT+01). Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4936481067433410061
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Webinar Program (45 minutes):
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Presentation (25 minutes):
- 3 step CIP time: standard & variable step timings
- key causes for surplus time in key variable steps
- top 6 actions implemented
- final rinse flow variation identification & actions
- CIP Time Variation Reduction Project implementation in 7 plants.
Q&A-session (20 minutes):
The presenter will provide answers to the most interesting/intelligent/relevant questions.
The webinar starts on April 14 at 11 a.m CET (GMT+01). Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4936481067433410061
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Webinar Program (45 minutes):
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Presentation (25 minutes):
- 3 step CIP time: standard & variable step timings
- key causes for surplus time in key variable steps
- top 6 actions implemented
- final rinse flow variation identification & actions
- CIP Time Variation Reduction Project implementation in 7 plants.
Q&A-session (20 minutes):
The presenter will provide answers to the most interesting/intelligent/relevant questions.

EHEDG Guideline Document 17: 'Hygienic design requirements for pumps, homogenisers and pulsation-dampers'.
Newly updated and ready for download: EHEDG Guideline Document 17: 'Hygienic design requirements for pumps, homogenisers and pulsation-dampers'.
The members of the EHEDG Working Group Pumps developed a new guideline revision. Working Group Chairman Ralf Stahlkopf (GEA Group) explains what's new (press play).
The latest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine also contains an article on this new EHEDG Guideline Document. Find it here: www.ehedg.org/connects (direct link to article: https://lnkd.in/d8-QzaZ )
Get your copy of EHEDG Guideline Document 17: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
(free download for all EHEDG members after login).
The members of the EHEDG Working Group Pumps developed a new guideline revision. Working Group Chairman Ralf Stahlkopf (GEA Group) explains what's new (press play).
The latest edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine also contains an article on this new EHEDG Guideline Document. Find it here: www.ehedg.org/connects (direct link to article: https://lnkd.in/d8-QzaZ )
Get your copy of EHEDG Guideline Document 17: www.ehedg.org/guidelines
(free download for all EHEDG members after login).

New Guideline 'Food Safety in the Supply Chain'
"Many food processing companies underestimate the food safety risks of price-driven transportation choices", states the International Association Supply Chain Safety ENFIT in its new 'Food Safety in the Supply Chain' guideline. Watch the EHEDG Connects interview with ENFIT President Hans-Dieter Philipowski.

New: EHEDG Connects Magazine III
Check out the new edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine, with 76 pages full of industry best practices in hygienic engineering and design, news on EHEDG Guideline, Certification, Training and Education developments, expert discussions and much more. The best holiday read you will find. Click on the banner above to read it online or ask your EHEDG Regional Section for a print copy.

Orbital welding: optimisation by collaboration
Following up on the publication of EHEDG Guideline Document 54 on the 'Testing of Hygienic Weld Joints', EHEDG Connects visited welding specialist and EHEDG Company Member Polysoude S.A.S. in Nantes, France, to investigate an upcoming trend in the world of welding: orbital welding. Compared to manual welding, orbital welding promises to offer more consistent welding results at lower costs and a better scalability. But what about the limitations? EHEDG Connects raised some critical questions, and took a closer look on the working floor. Please feel free to comment: what's you opinion on orbital welding?

EHEDG Guideline Document 25: Mechanical Seals for Hygienic and Aseptic Applications
EHEDG published a comprehensive update of EHEDG Guideline Document 25 'Mechanical Seals for Hygienic and Aseptic Applications'. In this interview, EHEDG Working Group Chair Thomas Böhm shares his view on the contents, the practical value and the relevance of this new guideline update. EHEDG Guideline Document 25 is freely available for all EHEDG members as a download from the EHEDG website. Please feel free to congratulate the following EHEDG Working Group members, who put their hearts and minds into developing this guideline in order to contribute to safe food production: Susanne Berezin (Hunseal AB, Sweden), Maik Bluhm (Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, Germany), Thomas Böhm (Eagle Burgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG), Hakan Christensen (SEALWAY AB, Sweden), Dr. Roland Cocker (Cocker Consulting Ltd. Ireland), Andreas Eiletz (Eagle Burgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG) Rico Gonser (Goditec, Germany) Jesper Raabjerg Jensen (Alfa Laval Kolding A/S, Denmark), Kamesh Narayanaswamy (John Crane, UK) Henrik Nedlich (Roplan AB, Sweden), Anette Rangmark (Alfa Laval Tumba AB, Sweden), Andy Timperley (Timperley Consultant, UK) Harald Tobies (METAX Kupplungs- und Dichtungstechnik, Germany), Dr. Karl-Johan Westin (Roplan Inc., USA).

EHEDG presents: Operational Director Adwy van den Berg
The European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group is delighted to introduce to all of its members the new EHEDG Operational Director Adwy van den Berg. Adwy is currently building up a new team for the EHEDG Secretariat in Naarden (The Netherlands), which will take over the daily operations of EHEDG starting on January 1, 2021. Apart from finalising the transition to Naarden, Adwy is responsible for leading and managing the EHEDG operations, including office staff, consultants ans suppliers, establishing and supporting EHEDG working groups, technical committees and regions, supporting the EHEDG Executive Committee and Advisory Board, and assuring that the values, brand and activities of EHEDG are consitently communicated to its members and stakeholders.

Hygienic production of enzymes, supported by EHEDG
Former Maintenance Manager Henrik Nordbo explains why Novozymes is an EHEDG Company Member and how this Danish enzyme producer applies EHEDG Guideline and EHEDG Training services to ensure that food processes kick off in the most effective and hygienic ways. Nordbo: "We don't produce food ourselves, but we live up to the EHEDG guidelines so we can effectively support our customers in their efforts to consistently produce safe and high quality food products."

New EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 Hygienic Design Requirements for Bakery Equipment
This German version of the video-interview with EHEDG Working Group Bakery Equipment Chair Dr. Jürgen Hofmann is a tribute to the original German EHEDG Working Group: "Diese lange erwartete Guideline fokussiert sich auf die spezifische hygienic design Anforderungen für Bäckereimaschinen, und ist die Ernte eines langen Entwicklungsprozesses nachdem die Deutsche Bäckerei-Industrie in 2012 mit Kontaminationen konfrontiert wurde. Arbeitsgruppenvorsitz Dr. Jürgen Hofmann erklärt warum diese EHEDG Guideline lesenswert ist für alle die sich mit industriellen Bäckereien beschäftigen. EHEDG Mitglieder können die EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 gratis von der EHEDG website herunterladen: www.ehedg.org/guidelines."

New EHEDG Guideline: Hygienic Design Requirements for Bakery Equipment
EHEDG Working Group Bakery Equipment proudly presents EHEDG Guideline Document 55. This long-awaited EHEDG Guideline, which addresses specific hygienic design requirements for bakery equipment, is the result of a development process that started back in 2013, when the German bakery industry was shaken up by a major contamination incident. Working Group Chairman Dr. Jürgen Hofmann explains why he thinks this EHEDG Guideline Document is a must-read for everyone affiliated with industrial bakeries. All EHEDG Members are invited to download EHEDG Guideline Doc. 55 from the EHEDG website: www.ehedg.org/guidelines.

New EHEDG Guideline Doc. 34: 'Integrating Hygienic Entities'
Integrate food processing equipment correctly, with the upcoming new EHEDG Guideline Document 34 on 'Integrating Hygienic Entities'. In this video-interview, EHEDG Working Group Chair Roland Cocker stresses the value of this new EHEDG Guideline Document for optimising food safety, productivity and sustainability parameters of food processing lines. Cocker addresses topics like design freeze, verification, validation and qualification procedures, and the aligning of analytical procedures and operational instructions. Stay connected to receive an update as soon as EHEDG Guideline Doc. 34 is ready for download: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection: David Childs
No effective cleaning and disinfection without effective cleaning and disinfection procedures. David Childs, Technical Service Manager at Holchem Laboratories, explains why he shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Holchem Laboratories encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that offers valuable cleaning & disinfection principles to the global food industry (video recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak). EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c

Hygienic Design Lifetime Economics & Technical Collaboration
In this EHEDG Connects 'Ask an EHEDG Expert' interview, metallurgist Eric Partington (Effex) explains how food processing companies and their suppliers can optimise the lifetime economics of their hygienic design applications. Eric is European consultant to the Nickel Institute of Toronto, member of UK Institute of Brewing & Distilling and Chairman of EHEDG Regional Section UK and Ireland as well as of EHEDG Working Group Materials of Construction that developed EHEDG Guideline Document 32 on the use of materials of construction for equipment in contact with food.

New EHEDG Guideline Update: Hygienic Design & Application of Sensors
EHEDG Working Groups Sensors is currently finalising a comprehensive (130+ pages) update of EHEDG Guideline Document 37 on the 'Hygienic Design and Application of Sensors'. In this video-interview, EHEDG Working Group Chairman Holger Schmidt reveals a tip of the veil of the guideline contents, and explains how it will serve EHEDG members who wish to design and apply sensor technology without compromising on food safety and quality performances.

Digitisation of food processing management for optimising food safety & productivity
In this EHEDG Connects video interview, Hermann Schalk (CSB AG) shares his insights in digital food processing management and how food processing companies can benefit from digitising their processes with regard to the food safety, food quality and productivity results of hygienic design.

EHEDG Regional Section Mexico: secrets for success
News update on the EHEDG activities in Mexico, from the perspectives of EHEDG Regional Section Mexico Chairman Marco Antonio León Félix and two regionally active suppliers of hygienic design equipment (Kevin O'Connell Zamora, Director General Mexico ACO Group & Thorvald Lynggaard (Trading Company Dantec). Follow EHEDG on Social Media: LinkedIn: https:www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG South Africa welcomes new company member Tiger Brands
EHEDG Connects Online news update on the accession of South-African packaged goods producer Tiger Brands. EHEDG Regional Section Chairman Peet Grobler talks with Tiger Brands Group Manufacturing Excellence and Quality Director Ntombenhle Mabuza about Tiger Brands' motives to become an EHEDG Company Member, the value of EHEDG for the company and the collaboration between Tiger Brands and EHEDG South Africa.

Hygienic welding: the value of collaboration in the supply chain
EHEDG expert panel discussion on hygienic welding - edition II "Result-optimising stakeholder collaboration." Hygienic welding experts Hans-Peter Mariner and Kees Meurs of orbital welding company Polysoude respond to a statement made in the previous edition of this EHEDG expert forum discussion: "Hygienic properties of welding results are greatly determined by the level of collaboration between all stakeholders involved in the welding process." Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Follow EHEDG on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG establishes Taskforce Food Industry Resilience
The chairman of the newly established EHEDG Taskforce Food Industry Resilience invites EHEDG members to share their practical applications of governmental coronavirus-related workplace regulations, in a unified effort to minimise health risks for food industry workers and to maximise the resilience of the food industry during the pandemic. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg & Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Expert Forum Hygienic Welding
EHEDG Expert Forum on the why and how of hygienic welding. The EHEDG Working Group Hygienic Welding is currently working on a new EHEDG Guideline Hygienic Welding. In this EHEDG Connects Forum, the chairman of the EHEDG Working Group Hygienic Welding Peter Merhof (GEA) discusses hygienic welding with Thomas Kopitzke (Encoma) and John Wahlers (Stream Engineering Solutions).
Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Follow EHEDG on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

AEO Alan Friis: "Systematic integration of hygienic design offers significant benefits""
EHEDG Connects video interview with mechanical engineer and hygienic design consultant Alan Friis, Teamleader at the Center of Hygienic Design (Force Technology). Alan is also an EHEDG Authorised Evaluation Officer (AEO) and a member of the EHEDG Working Group System Integration which is currently finalising a newly update EHEDG Guideline. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg | Follow EHEDG on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Connects Rick de Sousa, Chairman EHEDG Regional Section Australia
EHEDG Connects video update on the activities of the newly established EHEDG Regional Section Australia. Regional Section Chairman Rick de Sousa shares his views on how to effectively convey the value of the EHEDG Product Portfolio to industry stakeholders in Australia.

EHEDG Connects: Debra Smith, Global Hygiene Specialist at Vikan
"After the health workers, food producers are the second most critical to this Covid-19 response. Ensuring their health and wellbeing is key." Microbiologist and Vikan Global Hygiene Specialist Debra Smith answers questions on SARS-CoV-2 control to protect food industry workers. Debra is an active Committee Member of the UK regional section of the European Hygienic Engineering Design Group and a Fellow of the Institute of Food Safety and Technology. “Minimising the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through good cleaning and disinfection practices" (white paper): https://lnkd.in/ecr-_TG “COVID-19: Protecting key food industry workers from infection” (blog post): https://lnkd.in/dxyCEJU Webinar April 28: “How can the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission be minimised through cleaning and disinfection”: https://lnkd.in/d9Cjvab

Marks and Spencer contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Disinfection
Marks and Spencer Hygiene Technologist and EHEDG Working Group Member Katie Satterthwaite explains why she shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Marks and Spencer supports her to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning and disinfection principles to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn to stay connected: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

EHEDG Meat Processing Guideline in the making
The EHEDG Working Group Meat Processing is currently working on a comprehensive EHEDG Guideline Document that will encompass a wide range of industrial meat processing aspects, from the first cutting stages after slaughtering up to final meat processing. In this video, the chair of the EHEDG Working Group Meat Processing Marija Zunabovic-Pichler (Senior Scientist at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) explains how EHEDG approaches the development of this new type of process-oriented guideline and how her working group members tackle various challenges. EHEDG will post an update as soon as this guideline is completed and ready for use by all EHEDG members. Follow EHEDG on LinkedIn and Twitter to stay up-to-date: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg. | Twitter: www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG Training & Education News
In this EHEDG Connects News Update, Co-Chairman of the EHEDG Training & Education Working Group Rafa Soro shares the upcoming plans to bring EHEDG Training and Education services into the digital domain. Follow EHEDG on Social Media: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg & www.twitter.com/EHEDG_Global

EHEDG offers new design tool to support authorised testing laboratories
EHEDG is about to offer a new method for assessing the cleanability of open food processing equipment components. EHEDG Executive Committee Member Tracy Schonrock explains how this new design tool service enforces the good repute of the EHEDG certification scheme by helping EHEDG Authorized Testing Laboratories to standardize their equipment testing procedures.

The networking value of EHEDG
A real-life example of the networking value of EHEDG: the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning and Disinfection recently invited Eric Lechat from Eltech Equipements to give a presentation on the application scope of UVC-disinfection (ultraviolet C light) systems to disinfect water, surfaces and air. The new EHEDG Cleaning and Disinfection Guideline will contain a chapter on this technology, and will help food producers to optimise food safety, quality and productivity, whilst minimising the usage of water, energy and chemicals. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as the new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning and Disinfection is ready for download.

Food Safety Expert contributes to EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Validation
Food Safety Expert and Hygienic Design Consultant Lammert Baas contributes with his experience to several EHEDG Working Groups, including the one that is currently completing a new EHEDG Cleaning & Validation Guideline. He explains how food producers can benefit from sharing their specific food safety challenges with food safety experts in the EHEDG knowledge community. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as the new EHEDG Cleaning & Validation Guideline is ready for download.

Diversey contributes to EHEDG Guidelines
Global Sector Specialist Hein Timmerman explains why his company Diversey encourages him to share his expertise in the EHEDG Working Groups Cleaning and Disinfection and Cleaning-In-Place (CIP), and how the global food industry can utilize the new EHEDG Guideline Documents to optimize their food safety, food quality and productivity, whilst minimizing water and energy usage.

CFS contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning & Disinfection
CFS Senior Food Safety Specialist and EHEDG Working Group Chair Dirk Nikoleiski explains why she shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning & Disinfection, and why Commercial Food Sanitation encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning and disinfection insights to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c

How to implement EHEDG hygienic design expertise in your company
Hygiene Manager Barbara Amon explains how she introduced EHEDG hygienic design expertise to Agrana Starch in Gmünd, and thereafter, by engaging her colleagues, to other Agrana Starch production plants in Austria.

GSF contributes to EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation
GSF Sales Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Member Olivier Couraud explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why GSF encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning validation principles to the global food industry. EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG also on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date: www.linkedin.com/company/ehedg

Alfa Laval contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Tank Cleaning
Alfa Laval Research and Development Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Chair Dr. Bo Boye Busk Jensen explains why he shares his expertise with the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Alfa Laval supported and encouraged him to contribute to the development of a new EHEDG Guideline that offers a comprehensive overview of hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment.

Ecolab contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Cleaning Validation
Ecolab Application Manager and EHEDG Working Group Member Thomas Tyborksi explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why Ecolab encourages him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable validation principles to the global food industry.

Lechler GmbH contributes to new EHEDG Guideline Tank Cleaning
Mechanical Engineer and EHEDG Working Group Member Hansjörg Lutz explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Lechler GmbH encouraged him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment to the food industry.

Cargill contributes to new EHEDG Tank Cleaning Guideline
Cargill Global Hygienic Design Lead Dr. Patrick Wouters explains why he shares his expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning, and why Cargill encouraged him to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable hygienic design principles for tanks and tank cleaning equipment to the food industry.

The challenges of hygienic fish processing
Dr. Sanja Vidaček Filipec (Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, and Chair of EHEDG Working Group Fish Processing) explains the value of combining practical and academic hygienic design knowledge. The corresponding article illustrates how EHEDG Fish Processing Guideline Document 49 helps fish processing companies to secure food safety in their production environments.

EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 2
Our new edition of EHEDG Connects Magazine contains 76 pages filled with expert opinions and best practices. Find out how other food and equipment producers apply hygienic engineering and design. Download, print and distribute EHEDG Connects Magazine to stay connected in 2020! . Download EHEDG Connects Magazine Edition 2 here: https://lnkd.in/dsdRV3c . Share your own best practices: introduce them to our EHEDG Connects Editorial Team: editorial@ehedg.org

Engineering food safety: adopting the right mindset
What do hygienic engineers expect from their clients so their agencies can design effective, easily cleanable and safe food factories? Find out what the engineering professionals of EHEDG company member Iv-Industrie (an engineering agency specialized in hygienic engineering and design) have to say about that in this video, and in the corresponding article below.

Video report EHEDG Strategy Meeting
Video report of the EHEDG Strategy Meeting 2019. At this recently held meeting, EHEDG Advisory Board members (who represent food industry stakeholders within the EHEDG foundation) advised EHEDG Foundation Board and EHEDG Executive Committee members in strategic matters.

EHEDG Guideline 23: Food grade H1 and HT1 registered lubricants
The EHEDG Working Group Lubricants has published a comprehensive update of EHEDG Guideline Doc. 23, that teaches us how to properly use (part 1) and produce (part 2) food-grade H1 and HT1 registered lubricants. EHEDG Working Group Lubricants Chairman Taco Mets: “If you don’t want to put your food safety at risk and if you want to optimize the reliability and lifetime of your machines, then only the right lube will do.”

Hygienic design saves traditional brewing process
Brewmaster Hans-Peter Drexler shows how the Schneider Weisse brewery regained full control over its beer quality parameters while staying faithful to its Bavarian brewery traditions. By implementing EHEDG certified hygienic design equipment, the pure taste of Schneider Weisse wheat beer, brewed in line with the German 'Reinheitsgebot' beer purity law since 1872, can be enjoyed by future generations of beer-connoisseurs.

Cargill consults EHEDG Guidelines when making investment decisions
Cargill is one of the world's biggest suppliers of agricultural commodities (150.000 employees in 70 countries). The company improves food safety on a global scale by implementing new hygienic design principles. Haydn Mann, Cargill Director Food Safety and Innovation Protein Europe: 'We continuously gap-analyse our facilities against the newest EHEDG Guideline Documents. It helps us with making future investment decisions.'

The effective food safety culture of Sachsenmilch & Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller
Europe’s biggest dairy plant is situated in the German town of Leppersdorf near Dresden, and it’s a convincing paragon of German engineering and efficiency. The dairy company Sachsenmilch Leppersdorf GmbH (a subsidiary of Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller) produces a wide variety of popular dairy products here. Food safety conditions are optimised with the support of the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group.

EHEDG supports Global Harmonization Initiative
In our globalising food industry, we all benefit from harmonised processes and regulations. That's why the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group supports the Global Harmonization Initiative [GHI]. In this video, EHEDG Subject Matter Experts talk about their contributions to the first GHI World Congress, but only after GHI President and EHEDG Founding Father Dr. Huub Lelieveld welcomes us all with open arms. Enjoy.

Marks and Spencer Senior Hygiene Technologist Katie Satterthwaite
EHEDG attracts companies from all levels of the global food supply chain, like Marks and Spencer, the British multinational retailer that sells clothing, home products, and luxury food products through more than a thousand of its own stores in the UK and almost 1500 stores worldwide. Marks and Spencer Senior Hygiene Technologist Katie Satterthwaite explains why her company became an EHEDG Company Member and why this retailer stimulates its technologists to actively participate in EHEDG Working Groups.

Hugo Piguet, Leading Hygienic Engineering and Design at Nestlé
Hugo Piguet is in charge of hygienic engineering and design at Nestlé, and that's a big responsibility, since Nestlé has 413 factories, operates in 190 countries, and employs 308,000 people worldwide. Piguet: 'Nestlé invites food industry stakeholders to develop systems that comply with the latest EHEDG guidelines, while also offering maximum flexibility and scalability.'

Dr. Roy Kirby, Global Director Food Safety Mondelēz International:
'Sharing knowledge and best practices on food safety should be a non-competitive process, based on trust, just like the collaboration between EHEDG and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). We should all be able to learn from each other's mistakes and share best practices.'

Dr. Ellen Evans, Zero2Five Institute / Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dr. Ellen Evans is interested in the effects of human behaviour on food safety. Her university has a long track record in behavioural and cognitive research and incorporates new insights from other faculties to effectively deliver food safety messages. Ellen Evans: 'Giving people a sense of responsibility is one of the most effective ways to optimise food safety.'

Prof. Dr. Ian Wilson (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge University Professor Dr. Ian Wilson is an expert in cleaning. Together with his fellow scientists of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, he studies the (cleaning) properties of complex fluids and surfaces. Their insights may lead to valuable applications in the food, pharma and chemicals industries. That is why Dr. Wilson is a member of the EHEDG Working Group Tank Cleaning Systems. Find out what he is working on by watching the video.

Bengt Eliasson, Chair EHEDG Working Group Heat Treatment
EHEDG Guideline Doc. 1 and 6 are ready for download! Bengt Eliasson: 'These two completely renewed EHEDG Guidelines on Pasteurisation and Sterilisation of liquid food offer new insights in how to optimise food safety, food quality, productivity and energy efficiency of continuous pasteurisation and ultra-high temperature sterilisation processes.'

Video-interview Patrick Wouters (Cargill)
In this interview, Cargill Global Hygienic Design Leader Dr. Patrick Wouters talks about the value of hygienic engineering and design for Cargill. The EHEDG Vice-President also provides new insights in future EHEDG product portfolio developments.

Tetra Pak contributes to new EHEDG Cleaning Validation Guideline
Tetra Pak Safety & Compliance Expert Isabelle Guillard explains why she shares her expertise in the EHEDG Working Group Cleaning Validation, and why Tetra Pak encourages her to contribute to a new guideline that promises to offer valuable cleaning validation principles to the global food industry (video recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak). EHEDG will publish an update as soon as this guideline is ready for download. Follow EHEDG here to stay up-to-date: https://lnkd.in/dj_zH4c
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