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America’s largest craft brewing industry gathering will be happening in Denver April 8-11, 2019 at the Denver Convention Center. The Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® will host over 800 exhibitors and 13,000 attendees, so you’ll be in good company! If you’re attending, come by and visit us at Booth #19069. We'll have our best-selling tools and containers on hand. Our food grade/color-coded plastic and stainless steel material handling and cleaning tools are FDA-a …

Union Jack understands the importance of contaminant detection in the food/beverage processing and pharmaceutical industries. A single recall due to foreign object contamination can cost millions of dollars, result in bad press, affect contracts with large retail operators and invite lawsuits against both the processor and the retail entity selling the product. For companies using metal detection as part of FDA-mandated HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) /GMP’s (Good Man …

With stricter FDA regulations in place, it’s time to make the right choice when it comes to the tools and containers you use in your brewery. With beer qualifying as food, you have FSMA, and potentially HACCP, requirements to follow to make sure you are compliant. Next up in Union Jack’s Product Battle Series is “The Paddle Battle” ... so, let’s get started! Increase your paddle IQYour paddles are a critical tool in your brewery. There’s no time for clumps of grain or dough balls in …

You’ve probably heard the news -- the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated beer as “food” as part of the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). There are now regulations that breweries need to follow to be compliant, and to keep beer and customers safe. There are a lot of resources out there, but it can still be difficult to find FSMA regulations for brewers that are easy to understand. We’ve pulled together an overview with a focus on Good Manufacturing Practices (GM …

No matter your brewery’s size, you are now officially required to comply with a set of FDA regulations defined by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). One important set of these regulations (21 CFR 117.95) deals with properly storing, labeling, and tracking the removal of spent grain. FDA audits are currently happening and increasing – here’s what you need to know if your spent grain is being sold/given to farmers for animal consumption: Spent grain must be held in a manner that …