Food safety and production efficiency: The secret is in the lubricants

The focus of FUCHS Food Quality lubrication solutions is on all stages of the food and beverage production process. These ranges of lubricants ensure high standards of quality and technical performance in the production, processing, bottling and packaging processes for food, beverages and animal feed. In addition to ensuring the highest safety of food products, these FUCHS lubricants allow greater efficiency in the production process itself to promote a longer service life of machines and systems.

As for the BRCGS and IFS food industry standards, the stringency is increasing to ensure safe food and beverages. Therefore, their implementation is being extended to the entire supply chain. Therefore, FUCHS has homologated its lubricants to meet these standards and also produces the fluids in accordance with ISO 21469, a way of providing added value.

According to FUCHS' knowledge and experience, the Food Quality lubricants of the future must be synthetic based in order to be totally free of critical substances such as aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) and saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH), as is the case with its CASSIDA range.

The LCCP Audits, which FUCHS also offers, allow a prior overall assessment of the food safety of companies in terms of lubrication. What for? To ensure that companies are in line with HACCP requirements. In the audit, aspects of lubrication optimization, increased food safety, assessment of storage and handling of lubricants are considered. In addition, lubrication systems and methods are checked for a review of implemented practices.

While the lubricants perform their high performance work and keep everything running, FUCHS ensures a Technical Assistance Service with a dedicated team to anticipate possible problems and solve all situations that may arise.