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research article

Automation in cleaning food processing plant equipment

authors

Walter G. Jennings, University of California, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 14(9):4-4. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v014n09p4. September 1960.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Circulation cleaning of food processing equipment—by pumping detergent through it—has been adopted so rapidly in food plant operations that knowledge of basic principles has not kept pace with usage. A research program evaluating : the variables in the cleaning process used films of milk labeled with a radioactive tracer, to simulate the soil to be washed from the equipment.

author affiliations

Walter G. Jennings is Assistant Professor of Dairy Industry, University of California, Davis.