Safe Pasteurisation Course
Thermal Process Training
04. Safe pasteurisation course
Pasteurisation uses a heat process in combination with hurdles (such as pH, aw, salt, preservatives, pack atmosphere, and storage temperature) to control microbial growth. This sometimes makes pasteurised products more challenging than sterilised products because these hurdles also need to be considered. Understanding is essential for the successful production of safe and stable products.
The course illustrates how pasteurisation works, by covering the controlling hurdles and the designed thermal process. In addition, the course can be tailored for specific pasteuriser types and the associated good manufacturing practice e.g. continuous flow processing such as heat exchangers, hot filling or pasteurisation tunnels.
This 2 day course is ideal for QA/QC, product and process development teams, technical/quality/production managers, retail technologists/managers. The course will also be beneficial to factory inspectors including auditors, retailers, environmental health officers and import/export officers who review documentation (including validation reports).
List of standard modules (can be tailored to what you need)
- Sterilisation vs pasteurisation
- Heat preserved food microbiology
- D value & process design (theory+exercises)
- z value & P value calculations (theory+exercises)
- The importance of product preparation
- The importance of packaging
- Good manufacturing practice for cooker operations
- Hurdle technology-pH
- Hurdle technology-aw
- Hurdle technology-storage temperature
- Hurdle technology-preservatives
- Selection of heat process target
- Hot filling
- Continuous flow technology and validation
- Process deviations and heat transfer model (demo)
- Course exam (optional)
Previous feedback from the course
'Very good, clear instruction and very patient trainer'
'Great learning'
'Very good + help link to our products'
'Well paced course, very informative.'
'You give us a lot examples and let us have open conversations + give us time to understand, thanks!'
'Very relevant to my current role'
'Very good training session that helped me understand better the influence of different variables into the food safety processes'