HACCP & Analytical Equipment

In the food industry every single measurement and calibration has to be recorded. The risk of inaccurate measurements, fake readings and human error is all too present.

Yorkshire Instruments have the equipment that can efficiently, effectively and safely save, store and evaluate your food measurements and calibrations, alerting you if they are outside the normal range and helping you to easily rectify them.

During food production processes it is essential to measure the PH value, temperature, and weight of your product. Recording sugar and salt levels is also increasingly important.

For all of your factory measurements, you can depend on Yorkshire Instruments. With our pharmaceutical background and experience we can support you in many ways, including:

  • Temperature measurement devices which take measurements every five minutes up to a reading of 3000 – helping with accurate measurements of food boxes during transportation
  • Providing evidence that your food is shipped at the right temperature and within the legal limits
  • Supplying dairy companies with measuring devices to check the temperature of milk during transportation from the farm to cheese factory or bottling area
  • Displays date, time and user name with each reading
  • Automatically archives data and creates reports
  • Helps your business to be HACCP compliant

Technology for today’s food industry

NIR technology – what is it and how can it help you?

  • Gives results for the most important parameter in 50 seconds for dairy, meat, grains, edible oil or beverages
  • Analyses all parameters in 1 minute
  • NIR technology compares your sample with our professional standard library. This is constantly upgraded with samples from around the world
  • By applying some spectra of your samples to our library you can apply your known sample and compare it to the library. Results are within 50 seconds with pinpoint accuracy
  • This has huge benefits as you do not need to do a chemical wet test every time
  • Running costs are almost zero

In this case you can have a proof of the temperature during the transportation.

Displays date, time & user name with each reading

Automatically archives data & creates reports

Helps your business be HACCP compliant

Analyse the 5 steps of your cheese making process with SpectraAlyzer Dairy

Standardised milk

Incoming milk is analysed for fat, protein, lactose, SNF, density, titrable acidity, casein and ash content and measuring the usage of raw material compositions according to set standards.

The SpectraAlyzer Dairy is a fast analyser that standardises the milk fat, protein and SNF content, allowing the cheese making process to be initiated more quickly.

Pressing

The moisture content determination with the SpectraAlyzer Dairy adjusts and monitors the cheese making process during pressing.

Salting

Salt content is quickly measured, ensuring that the salt content does not affect the growth of bacteria during the ripening process.

Ripening

The ripening process can be monitored with the analyser by determining the moisture, free fatty acid and soluble nitrogen content.

Final product testing

Excellent and consistent quality in the final product is essential to meet set specifications. The SpectraAlyzer Dairy can determine the fat, moisture, casein, SNF, salt, titrable acidity and dry matter in your products.

It can also be used for yoghurt, butter, powder milk and ice cream, and can measure the grain in flour mills, granula and bakeries.

POLYTEC – NIR technology for advanced on-line measurements

Polytec NIR is for online measuring of your products during the production process. For example, we can measure humidity and carbohydrate for grains in your bakery. We are proud to represent POLYTEC, the leader in bespoke process measuring using NIR technology.

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POLYTEC PAS Spectrometers

POLYTEC PAS Spectrometers provide the ideal solution to your NIR process analytics problems. Diode array detector technology combined with a transmission grating design means that the devices can provide fast and reliable data acquisition.

  • Flexible combinations with fibre-coupled components allow for integration for your measurement needs
  • Standardised components ensure a precise and user-friendly experience
  • Available in 19” plug-in housing with a 110-240 VAC power supply for installation in industrial cabinets
  • Also available with small ½ 19” controllers with an actively stabilised 10 – 30 VDC power supply
  • Ideal for mobile applications such as combine harvesters
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SPEEDY LAB

Analysis of fat, proteins, lactose and dry matter in milk 5 keys…2 minutes…0 problems!

Analysis of fat, proteins, lactose, density, salts and SNF in different kinds of milk

  • New and user-friendly interactive menu for analysis and calibrations
  • Simple calibration procedure, by keyboard or by PC, for 3 different kinds of samples
  • Results in about 90 seconds, without the need of the operator’s presence
  • Preparation, homogenisation and heating of samples are unnecessary
  • No need of consumables or chemicals
  • Aspiration of the sample from every kind of container by means of a precision pump
  • Extendable sampling hose, up to 40 cm total length
  • Separation of the inlet channel from the outlet one: total absence of carry-over
  • Free calibration and data handling software for PC

Technical features:

Measurement ranges and accuracy:

– Fat: from 0,01% to 25,00% ± 0,10%

– Lactose: from 0,01% to 6,00% ± 0,20%

– Proteins: from 2,00% to 7,00% ± 0,15%

– SNF: from 3,00% to 15,00% ± 0,15%

– Salts: from 0,40% to 1,50% ± 0,05%

– Density: from 1.000 to 1.160 Kg/m3 ± 0,3 Kg/m3

– Sample volume: 15 ml

– Working conditions: temperature from 10° to 35°C, humidity from 30% to 80%

– RS232 port for PC and printer (the printer is sold separately) – USB port of PC connection

– Power supply: 12 VDC for 110-240 AC voltage. Car plug supplied upon request

– Dimensions: 230 x 230 x 205 (h) mm – Weight: 4,5 Kg. – Consumption: 65 W