Guelph Food Research Centre is home to a unique, pilot-scale, food research facility. In the pilot plant, our scientists test new and existing food processing technologies. They work in collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, university scientists and partners from the food processing sector. And they are improving food safety for all Canadians.
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Full Video Transcript:
Sampathkumar Balamurugan: The Guelph Research and Development Centre's Pilot Plant is a level two certified pilot plant whose purpose is to support the food processing industry vet their food safety requirements and develop and validate food processing technologies to mitigate food safety issues.
Jeffrey Farber: This is the only pilot plant of its kind funded by public dollars that is housed really where it's needed most. Southern Ontario has many food processors so this facility is ideally located.
Daphne Nuys-Hall: Research has always been a mystery for our members, so this kind of takes the mystery out of it, they work collaboratively with the researchers to understand what the requirements are.
Sampathkumar Balamurugan: They can deal with commercial size food products, in commercial packaging and handle large volumes of pathogens that have been involved in outbreaks.
Jeffrey Farber: Here you can actually make the food with the pathogen already in it and this really more closely simulates what actually happens out there in the real world.
Jennifer Pacan: We have to use some specialized equipment to make certain that any aerosols generated within the pilot plant are retained within the pilot plant.
And once in the pilot plant all the equipment is handled inside primary containment units, which function in the same manner, as the much smaller scale biological safety cabinets, that you see in the laboratory.
Sampathkumar Balaburugan: There's two primary areas of focus in the pilot plant. One is mitigation of food safety risks for the industry, and the second is the development and validation of food processing technologies from a food safety perspective.
Daphe Nuys-Hall: The pilot plant affords the industry an opportunity to send their products, hand over their processes to the facility to be validated to ensure, they're meeting the food safety and regulatory requirement, .for both the domestic and international markets.
Sampathkumar Balaburugan: The partnership is dependent on the industry coming to us with an issue and giving us enough information for us to understand, how the product is manufactured, so we can actually replicate the entire process.
Jennifer Pacan: Our industry partners can expect discretion and take confidence in our robust standard operating procedures and significant documentation
Jeffrey Farber: In addition this plant can provide training for the next generation of food safety leaders and scientists.
Sampathkumar Balagurugan: I think it's useful and important for the industry to understand that a containment facility such as the pilot plant exists for the industry to come so we can assist them with their food safety requirements.
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