IDM International Dairy Magazine 11-12/2011

Rapid Microbial Methods Reducing the impact of contamination events

Production lines do not stand still. Finished dairy products are packaged; boxes are cartoned; pallets are wrapped. Production lines do not stop, until they have to. For companies using traditional methods to test for microbiological contamination, shutting down a production line due to a potential contamination event is like opening a tap and watching money flow out. By the time the problem has been detected, the company has already invested quite a lot of time and effort, and has significant capital tied up in inventory....
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New drying plant for Gransee Fude + Serrahn

By the end of September, Fude + Serrahn, very much known as one of the major German milk traders have finally entered large-scale milk processing. At their plant in Gransee, Germany a new drying facility has been taken officially in operation. IDM was there, naturally. Fude + Serrahn (fs-milchprodukte.de) have acquired the Gransee plant in 2006 from bankrupt Parmalat. Since then, F+S have increased capacities by heavy investment. In a first stage, €10m were spent for modernization and increase of processing capacities, the building of an acid curd cheese production and a UHT plant. Only few years later, in early 2009, F+S decided to build a drying plant in Gransee. A total of €25m was invested and the result is an absolute state-of-the-art milk drying facility....
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