Do you comply with BCAS Food & Beverage Compressed Air Guidelines? 

The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has prepared new Best Practice Guidelines, in conjunction with advice from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and in association with the Food and Beverage industry requirements. Safety in food and beverage processing and production must be of paramount importance, and Thorite canensurecompliance. 

The BCAS booklet gives useful guidance and allows informed decisions to be made on the type of compressed air equipment required, how it must be installed, maintained and crucially the requirements for air purity. It expands on the provisions for the supply of compressed air in food and beverage manufacturing specified in the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety ISO 22000 and ISO TS 22002-1. 

There are two ways the guidelines will affect production processes. The first concerns Direct Contact, where compressed air is in contact as part of production and processing, including packaging and transportation. The second covers Indirect Contact where compressed air is exhausted into the local atmosphere around the food preparation, production, processing, packaging or storage areas. 

Thorite is the UK's biggest independent supplier of compressed air products and process systems, superbly equipped and experienced to be an effective purification partner for the Food and Beverage industry. The company's expert engineering personnel can help identify critical applications as part of the point-of-use Air Quality Audit-HACCP Process. 

It's all about peace of mind and with Thorite's help, unbeatable technical support and £3.5million off the shelf stockholding air purity in food and beverage processing can be guaranteed. 

For full information please contact Thorite on freephone 0800 034 5850, emailcontactair@thorite.co.ukor call in to any of the company's ten regional Sales & Service Centres located throughout Yorkshire, Lancashire, the North East and West Midlands. 

Further Information: Ross Gowler

Thorite Marketing and Engineering Services Director

Tel: 01274 663471.

Email:ross.gowler@thorite.co.uk

Web:www.thorite.co.uk 

Note to Editors

A family owned business since its foundation in 1850, Thorite has grown to become theUK's largestdistributor of pneumatic products and process systems. From its head office in Bradford, which also houses the company's state of the art National Distribution Centre, showroom and trade sales centre, Thorite has expanded to create a regional network of pneumatics Sales and Service Centres in Blackburn, Bolton, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Leeds, Rochdale, Sheffield, North Shields and the West Midlands. 

Thorite, Thorite House, Laisterdyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 8BZ.