Achieve FSMA compliance for your baking process with the state-of-the-art SCORPION® 2 Data Logger from Reading Thermal and kill step calculators developed by AIB International, Kansas State University, the American Bakers Association (ABA), and the University of Georgia.
Food-borne pathogens can be introduced into bakery products by means of ingredients, pests, unhygienic handling, and environmental factors. Instead of responding to safety failures after baking is done, the Kill-Step Validation (KSV) requirements of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act are intended to prevent them and provide documented evidence.
Reading Thermal, headquartered in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, has been focused on measuring and understanding the commercial baking process for more than 25 years. We manufacture and support the SCORPION® 2 Profiling System which has become a standard in the baking industry and provides an easy way to validate your Kill Step for food safety.
The SCORPION® 2 Profiling System enables you to monitor actual in-process conditions and get the critical information you need to correct problems and maintain optimum process control. This powerful diagnostic tool is valued by commercial bakeries around the world for understanding and improving bakery proofing, baking, cooling and freezing processes, and for FSMA kill-step validation.
The SCORPION® 2 Temperature Sensor Array measures temperature at product level, in fixed positions across the conveyor, and delivers a true representation of what your product is experiencing over time. Different types of pluggable sensors are available, including one designed for solid or tight mesh conveyors and one for open mesh conveyors.
The sensor array is connected to the SCORPION® 2 Data Logger and travels through the oven with the baked goods, yielding a precise picture of temperature from side-to-side and end-to-end.
Once the data has been gathered, the SCORPION® Software (SV8) Food Safety Module makes it easy to calculate lethality and then generates a comprehensive report displaying cumulative log reduction. By combining this ease of measurement with robust data capture, the SCORPION® 2 System makes it simple to optimize your process while meeting food safety standards.
Customers who want to measure temperature only can take advantage of the SCORPION® 2 LITE Temperature Data Logger. Designed as a low-cost alternative to the full-featured SCORPION® 2 Data Logger, it simplifies the measurement of environment and internal product core temperatures.
Kill Step Calculators
The kill step is necessary to eliminate harmful pathogens and reduce the microbial load in food to safe levels. With the SCORPION® 2 Data Logger, you can utilize AIB International’s Kill Step Calculators to evaluate the lethality of your process.
There are kill step calculators for specific bakery products, including hamburger buns, round top cake muffins, nut muffins, fruit-filled pastry, 100% whole wheat multigrain bread, multigrain bread, crispy cookies, soft cookies, yeast-raised donuts, flour tortillas and cheesecake. Download the procedures and calculators here.
You can achieve maximum food safety compliance for your baking process with the SCORPION® 2 Data Logger from Reading Thermal and kill step calculators from AIB International. Contact us online, or call us at (610) 678-5890 Ext. 2 to learn more.