Fuchs food safety site assessment

Food processing equipment comes into contact with lubricants for a variety of purposes such as to reduce friction between moving parts. People use a combination of non-food-grade and food-grade lubricants because they are trying to reduce costs. Most errors occur when someone picks up the wrong lubricant and then goes and puts that into a machine that is supposed to be using food grade. Food production companies with good operational practices often use exclusively food-grade lubricants, even in areas that are not expected to come into contact with food, as a precaution.

Fuchs has developed the Cassida range of food-grade lubricants and can also provide a site assessment from a member of its trained technical team to identify any areas that require food-grade lubricants.

The company says Cassida lubricants are fully synthetic, zinc- and ash-free, ISO21469 certified and, because they are synthetic, they are longer lasting.