Validating the kill step temperature as part of your preventive controls is a crucial component of your facility’s food safety plan. Our experts can validate your baking process for you, identify your oven’s cold spot, determine internal temperature, and calculate the lethality of the baking process.
Free Baking Process Kill Step Calculators take recorded time and temperature readings, calculating the total process lethality for Salmonella destruction. Then they generate a report that can be used as supporting documentation for FSMA’s validation requirement.
AIB International collaborated with the American Bakers Association’s Food Technical and Regulatory Affairs Committee and researchers at Kansas State University and University of Georgia to create these free Baking Process Kill Step Calculators.
*NOTE: Format the time so that you include at least the temperature data from 122°F/50°C during heating to the same temperature while cooling the product. It is acceptable to change the time intervals to larger values (such as ≥2 min) if the process is longer and the product is at 122°F/50°C for longer periods of time.
You NEED at least 20 time-temperature data points to accurately calculate the lethality of the process.
The minutes should be placed in the column labeled Time (m) and the temperature in the column labeled Core Temp.
I highly recommend any bakery to take a look at the calculator for their products, and I’d also suggest that they have an AIB International expert come out the first time to teach the proper way to perform the test.
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