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[ppuqa]

Hello Experts

 

 

As a snacks company the taste of our important is as important as safety of our products with that I would like to ask for your inputs.

 

Currently we are using pen type salinity meters to check our salinity levels the brand we are using is Oakton Ecotestr Salt1 from Cole Palmer, the meter is not performing very well that often time giving questionable results. With that would like to ask you for alternative testing methods and meters we can use that are applicable to snack food.

 

Thank you very much! 

[MDaleDDF]

Eh, firstly, I disagree with your first statement.    Food safety is the most important thing to me personally.   Quality is of course important as well, but let's say I ship a product that's off in quality.   I get a complaint and open a CAR, go through all that, finally get the customer happy.    Now let's say I ship something with E. Coli in it, and someone dies.     Yeah.   Quality is not equal to safety, imho.

Secondly, I'm not familiar with your analyzer, but we use a M926 chloride analyzer and it's awesome.

[ChristinaK]

I've had good experience with using the Horiba LAQUAtwin Salt-22 meters. It's more expensive than what you're currently using, but it is a pocket device that gives quick results (with a smiley face! haha). They also have meters for pH and a few other ions.

 

Also it is important to make sure your personnel are calibrating & storing the equipment properly to the OEM's recommendations. I had a lab tech who killed a brand-new salt-22 and pH meter in only a couple months because she ignored the cleaning and storage requirements (RIP my lab budget that year, haha...).