Industry - Food
The Food Industry
Water Analysis Performance Tools for the Food Industry
At Hach, we understand your water needs when it comes to ensuring the highest levels of product quality, consistency and safety. Since 1947, Hach Company has designed, manufactured, and distributed world-class instrumentation, test kits, and reagents for testing water quality in a variety of food industry applications, including influent, Clean-In-Place (CIP), and effluent water treatment. Download
Technical Paper: Analysis of Free Chlorine Analysis in Poultry Chiller Water Using DPD Free Chlorine Reagent
Maintaining a free chlorine level in chiller water presents a challenge due to the huge and changing chlorine demand load from the addition of free carcasses. This technical paper offers guidance for improving the performance of free chlorine measurements. Detailed background and procedural information provided.
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Product Spotlight
EZ COD Recycling Service
The USEPA requires safe disposal of waste generated by the dichromate COD method. Hach's EZ CODTM Recycling Service offers:
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Key Parameters
Online Instrumentation
| Alkalinity | APA 600 Alkalinity Analyzer |
| Ammonia | Amtax sc Ammonia Analyzer APA 6000 Ammonia Analyzer: Low Range | Ammonia and Monochloramine |
| Chlorine | CL17 Analyzer |
| Conductivity | sc200 or sc1000 analyzer with electrodeless/inductive conductivity sensor GLI Contacting and Inductive (Electrodeless) Conductivity Sensors |
| Dissolved Oxygen | Hach LDO Process Dissolved Oxygen Probe (ppm) |
| Hardness | SP510 Analyzer APA 6000 Low Range Analyzer |
| Nitrate | Nitratax™ plus sc Sensor |
| pH | GLI Differential pH Sensor Encapsulated LCP | sc Digital Sensor, PEEK |
| Phosphate | Phosphax sc Analyzer |
| Samplers | Sigma 900 Series |
| Sodium | 9245 Sodium Analyzer |
| TDS | GLI Contacting and Inductive (Electrodeless) Conductivity Sensors |
| Turbidity and Suspended Solids | 1720E Process Turbidimeter SOLITAX sc Suspended and Turbidity Analyzer |
Test Kits/Strips
| Glutaraldehyde | Glutaraldehyde Test Kit Color Disc |
Laboratory Products
| Photometry | DR 5000 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer VOLTALAB50, Analytical Electrochemical Laboratory |
| Test Kits | DREL 2800 Complete Water Quality Lab with Meters |
| Turbidity | 2100AN Laboratory Turbidimeter |
Reagents
| Alkalinity | Alkalinity Standard Solution as Na2CO3 (NIST), 25,000 mg/L as CaCO3, 10 mL Voluette® Ampule |
| Ascorbic Acid | Powder Pillows Titrants 100 mL MDB | 500 mL |
| Chlorine | DPD Total Chlorine: AccuVac® Ampules | Powder Pillows DPD Free Chlorine: AccuVac Ampules | Powder Pillows |
| COD | COD Digestion Vials, High Range COD2 Digestion Vials, Dichromate, High Range mercury-free ez COD Recycling Service |
| Fluoride | AccuVac Ampules |
| Hardness | Total Hardness; EDTA Cartridges for Digital Titrator |
| Iron | TPTZ 10 mL | 25 mL Samples Iron (Total) Reagent, FerroVer®, AccuVac |
| Ozone | AccuVac Ampules: Low | Medium | High Range |
| Sulfite | Sulfite 1 Powder Pillows Sulfite 3 Sulfite Solution as SO3 |
