Process Validation

Process validation studies ensure that your process can achieve the targeted level of safety and/or meet regulatory requirements.

What is Process Validation?

Process validation is a documented and consistent study that ensures a process, operating within controlled parameters, produces finished products meeting food safety requirements. By conducting the process within these controlled parameters, we guarantee the monitoring and control of food hazards.

The key drivers for managing food safety throughout the process include:

• Understanding the reality of the process
• Confirmation that the process operates within controlled parameters
• Validation of the process’s efficiency
• Validating the process while operating under adverse parameters affecting food ensures the elimination or prevention of hazards.

Which Processes must be Validated?

Our expertise can assist you in validating:

• Thermal processes for pathogen destruction/reduction (sterilization, pasteurization, sterilization in acid products, heat treatments for low water activity products, UHT, cooking, drying, etc.).
• Cleaning processes against allergens and detergent residues.
• Sanitation processes (microbiology, disinfection product residues).
• Non-thermal processes for pathogen destruction/reduction (high pressure, marinating, acidification, etc.).
• Mitigation measures for acrylamide production.
• Reduction/prevention of certain pathogens in foods or ingredients.
• Nutrition, health, or vitamin and mineral claims.
• Mixing processes.
• Metal detectors, other foreign matter, magnets, sieves.

Our Method

We collaborate closely with our customers to design the optimal validation methodology and see it through to completion. By ensuring the best design, our validation yields the most reliable results. Following recognized industry protocols, our technicians bring specialized expertise to each validation study. Throughout our tailor-made projects, we keep you informed and involved at every stage.

The process comprises:

• Validation design
• Implementation of validation
• Decision-making and reporting

Our validation studies offer independent and unbiased evaluations.

Mérieux NutriSciences’ process validation studies and reports are recognized industry-wide for their meticulous attention to detail. Our experts deliver precise data to inform your food safety decisions, providing actionable insights to verify the efficacy of your production processes and ensure the safety of your finished products.

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