Steam System Improvement in a Food Processing Plant: A Case Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Novi Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Steam System ◽  
Food Processing Plant

A CASE STUDY: EFFECT OF MOLD ON GROWTH OF COAGULASE-POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI IN CHEDDAR CHEESE

1971 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 583-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Duitschaever ◽  
D. M. Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Gradual Increase ◽  
Cheddar Cheese ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Mold Growth ◽  
Surface Ph ◽  
Coagulase Positive Staphylococci ◽  
Food Processing Plant

A large lot of Cheddar cheese was refused by a food processing plant on the basis of extensive mold growth. The mold belonged to the genus Penicillium. There was a gradual increase in pH from the center of the cheese (pH 5.48) towards the moldy, surface (pH 7.80). All portions of the cheese yielded staphylococci, but those isolated (100–1000/g) from the subsurface moldy areas were all coagulase-positive. Coliforms and salmonellae were absent. Aflatoxins could not be detected but the isolated coagulase-positive staphylococci were able to produce enterotoxin D.

Consequences of Poor Workplace Layout and Ambient Conditions: Case Study of an Industrial Injury

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 867-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Harvey Cohen ◽  
Cindy A. LaRue
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Facility Design ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
General Contractor ◽  
System Errors ◽  
Food Processing Plant ◽  
Industrial Injury

Our firm was retained to consult on a lawsuit involving an injury sustained by an employee of a food processing plant. While performing an assigned, yet unfamiliar task, the employee unintentionally stepped into an uncovered sump well containing water in excess of 140° (60°), seriously burning one leg. The sump well had been uncovered for routine maintenance by another employee who neglected to put the lid on the well when he had completed his task. This case went to litigation with the plumbing contractor, general contractor and boiler company as defendants. This paper will provide a human factors/ergonomics analysis of the incident, describing the facility design and maintenance issues, as well as the human and system errors that led to the injury. Also discussed are recommendations based on human factors principles that would have decreased the likelihood of the incident occurring.

Teams, Incentive Pay, and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from a Food-Processing Plant

ILR Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek C. Jones ◽  
Panu Kalmi ◽  
Antti Kauhanen
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Incentive Pay ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Food Processing Plant

Outbreak ofNeisseria meningitidisC in workers at a large food-processing plant in Brazil: challenges of controlling disease spread to the larger community

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
pp. 906-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. M. ISER ◽  
H. C. A. V. LIMA ◽  
C. De MORAES ◽  
R. P. A. De ALMEIDA ◽  
L. T. WATANABE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Purpura Fulminans ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Sterile Site ◽  
Matched Case ◽  
Epidemiological Link ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Food Processing Plant

SUMMARYAn outbreak of meningococcal disease (MD) with severe morbidity and mortality was investigated in midwestern Brazil in order to identify control measures. A MD case was defined as isolation ofNeisseria meningitidis, or detection of polysaccharide antigen in a sterile site, or presence of clinical purpura fulminans, or an epidemiological link with a laboratory-confirmed case-patient, between June and August 2008. In 8 out of 16 MD cases studied, serogroup C ST103 complex was identified. Five (31%) cases had neurological findings and five (31%) died. The attack rate was 12 cases/100 000 town residents and 60 cases/100 000 employees in a large local food-processing plant. We conducted a matched case-control study of eight primary laboratory-confirmed cases (1:4). Factors associated with illness in single variable analysis were work at the processing plant [matched odds ratio (mOR) 22, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2·3–207·7,P<0·01], and residing <1 year in Rio Verde (mOR 7, 95% CI 1·11–43·9,P<0·02). Mass vaccination (>10 000 plant employees) stopped propagation in the plant, but not in the larger community.

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