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Datapaq - Food Tracker System

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The Datapaq® Food Tracker® temperature profiling systems are comprised of a data logger, a protective thermal barrier and Insight software. With a Datapaq system, you can guarantee the quality and safety of your cooked meats, poultry, bakery products and ready-to-eat meals.
Part Number: DATAPAQ-FOOD
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Monitor product and ambient temperatures through the entire cooking/freezing process

Designed to measure and log true product and environmental temperatures and to deliver reliable, accurate HACCP process validation, the Datapaq Food Tracker System is the ideal solution for demanding food processing applications.

The system is particularly suited to poultry, meat and seafood processing; commercial baking; frozen food production; commercial pasteurization and sterilization; and proving your compliance with HACCP regulations.

Because the Datapaq Food Tracker System can monitor both product and ambient temperatures throughout the entire cooking/freezing process – in both static and conveyorised ovens – it can help you better identify optimal cooking temperatures while still complying with industry standards. The system can also be used in steam cookers, deep fat fryers and blast freezers.

The Datapaq system can be used across a wide range of product and process types, allowing you to easily set up and calibrate ovens, as well as develop new cooking processes. This is achieved thanks to the interchangeable thermocouples, which can be mixed and matched depending on your specific need. The length of the thermocouples can also be customised to suit your exact process requirements.


Features

  • Reliable and accurate HACCP temperature profiling systems for demanding food processing applications
  • Data logger (6 or 8 Channels) with IP67 waterproofing rating
  • Stores up to eight runs before need to download data
  • Comprehensive thermal barrier range to suit different process demands
  • Powerful yet easy-to-use Insight™ analysis software including process lethality calculations
  • Interchangeable thermocouples to suit your range of products


MultiPaq21 Data Logger

The MultiPaq21 data logger has up to eight channels (Type T or K), allowing you to collect product and environmental temperatures from up to eight locations at once. Using flexible thermocouple cables, the temperature sensors can be positioned precisely within the product, on the surface or in the air. They can record temperatures without the data logger or its mass influencing the response characteristics of the sensors and thus, the accuracy of the readings.

The data logger is designed to withstand the most hostile of food processing applications and is rated to IP67 with special waterproof thermocouple connections protecting against steam, water showers and routine cleaning procedures. The logger will store up to eight profiles before it needs to be downloaded.


Thermal Barriers

Employing the same insulation technology as that used in an aircraft's 'black box', Datapaq thermal barriers are housed in a rugged stainless steel casing, designed to last for many years. Datapaq thermal barriers can withstand the harshest industrial cooking environments, including steam cooking, long duration high temperature baking, or even flash frying, where the whole system is submersed in oil.

Unlike some other systems, there is no need to place the data logger inside your product. Since the barrier can be located away from the product, the heating characteristics of the product will not be affected by the monitoring equipment.


Food Tracker Insight Software

Use Insight software to convert raw data into meaningful information about your process, including instant reports on lethality. Document your process for increasing productivity, as well as formal documentation, such as HACCP.

  • Process Analysis: Automatically calculate all your process critical control points to satisfy your HACCP requirements.
  • Lethality Calculations & Reporting: Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk in your particular process and product (Fo value), ensuring your food is of the highest quality.
  • Process Optimization & Fault Finding: Quickly locate the exact position of hot or cold spots in the oven, minimizing production loss.
  • Reporting: Generate certified and traceable profile reports to satisfy all your HACCP validation documentation needs.
  • Monitoring: Observe the exact moment on your PC when your product reaches the required safe cooking temperature.

For more information, download the Food Tracker Insight Software brochure and Report Samples-Standard Report and Lethality Report.


Optional Thermocouples

Thermocouples (Type T or K) are supplied with water tight connectors and gold plated connections to provide IP67 rating of the logger. Reliability and accuracy are guaranteed in the most hostile of environments, including steam, water and condensation. Thermocouples can be mixed, matched and interchanged according to the type of process and product. Thermocouple cable lengths can also be customized to match the exact requirements of the process.

For detailed information, download the list of thermocouples (PDF).

Unleash the power of Datapaq's Food Tracker Insight™ software

At the heart of the Datapaq® Food Tracker® system is the Food Tracker Insight™ software specifically designed to allow detailed, quick, efficient review and analysis of your food process temperature profile. The software package contains powerful review and industry standard analysis tools to allow you to efficiently validate your process and ensure food safety and quality of the product being processed. Employ the same valuable information to optimize your process operation to increase yield, reduce cycle times and potentially conserve energy.


Process Analysis

Set up the software to automatically calculate all your process critical control points and satisfy your HACCP requirements. Use analysis features, such as maximum and minimum temperature, time above temperature, heating and chilling rate, as well as lethality calculations (Fo / Decimal Reductions) to accurately prove control of your process. Alarms can be configured within the software for all critical control points so you know immediately when and where problems occur. Use the same data to recommend and prove corrective action measures.


Wizards

Wizards are designed to guide you step-by-step through a particular process, while giving you the opportunity to ‘back up’ to a previous step, if you realize you have made a mistake. They also cut down on training requirements.


Lethality Calculations & Reporting

Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk in your particular process and product. This is ideal for process development, validation and routine QA measures. From your product temperature profile, calculate against theoretical lethality parameters the Fo value and/or the actual number of decimal reductions (log reductions) in the population of the target micro-organism. Use this data in comparison with your defined target values to prove due diligence ‘product safety’ for you and your customers. Report simultaneously lethality (Fo / Pu) results for multiple micro-organisms in a single run. Create a lethality parameter library which can be accessed and shared easily without risk of incorrect parameter data entry. Monitor the change in Fo through the process, allowing accurate, yet safe process optimization. Know the exact point in your process when the product has achieved safe cook, avoid overcook and increase yield and productivity.


Process Monitoring & Fault Finding 

Uniform heating of a product across a mesh belt conveyorized oven is essential for safety reasons, as well as consistency of product appearance and yield. To help with routine oven servicing and fault finding, the Thermograph view facility shows the uniformity of heating over the working area of the oven. You can quickly locate the exact position of hot and cold spots on the graduated thermal contour map.


Intelligent Process Optimisation

Automatically and accurately predict the effect of altering profile data, such as measured product temperature and line speed/cook time, on process performance using the Fo and Pu lethality analysis tools. Make informed theoretical process change recommendations to either achieve safe cook or alternatively improve process efficiency (Yield, Throughout). Predict the optimal process conditions without need for a repeat (trial and error) physical testing approach to process optimization.


Reporting

Generate certified and traceable profile reports with ease that show graphically the oven trace and your CCP analysis results to satisfy all your HACCP documentation needs. The report shows both the data and the necessary process information. Complement the raw data with notes and memos to explain process observations. Add zone markings and a distance axis so that you can see the product temperature changes in relation to the physical design of the oven. This is ideal for fault finding. Show with a digital image exactly where the thermocouples were placed in the product or the oven. For batch ovens, you can even create a 3D image of the product rack and show where the probes were placed on each shelf. This is an ideal way to remove any confusion for your staff about where to place the probes. Create a pdf format of the report directly within the software, allowing the information to be e-mailed to colleagues or contacts, where it can be read directly.

Tips when Thermal Profiling with Datapaq Food Tracker

In this webinar we will first explain how to get the best performance from the datalogger and thermal barriers; then we will focus on the use of the advanced software features and in particular we will be explaining how to use the software to conduct lethality calculations

Temperature Profiling in Food Applications

Watch how the Datapaq® Food Tracker® System, comprised of Insight™ software, data logger, selection of protective thermal barriers and thermocouples, provides temperature profiling for food processing industry.

Technical Information

MultiPaq21 Data Loggers

Memory 1.8 MB
16 hours (6 thermocouples / 0.5 sec. sampling)
Sampling Interval 0.5 sec to 50 min (standard use – temperature only)
2 sec to 50 min (radio telemetry – temperature only)
Accuracy ±0.2ºC (±0.4ºF)
Resolution 0.1ºC (0.18ºF)
Maximum internal operating temperature -40ºC to 85ºC (-40ºF to 185ºF)
Data collection start Start/stop buttons, time or temperature trigger
Battery Rechargeable NiMH. Battery life up to 250 hours.
Thermocouples Type T, British Standard Class I
Type K, Special Limits of Error ANSI MC 96.1

Part number Thermocouple Type Number of Channels Height Width Length Temperature Range Telemetry Option
DP2162 T 6 23mm (0.9in) 100mm (3.9in) 205mm (8.1in) -196ºC to 400ºC (-320ºF to 752ºF) No
DP2166 K 6 23mm (0.9in) 100mm (3.9in) 205mm (8.1in) -150ºC to 1370ºC (-238ºF to 2498ºF) No
DP2182 T 8 23mm (0.9in) 100mm (3.9in) 205mm (8.1in) -196ºC to 400ºC (-320ºF to 752ºF) Yes
DP2186 K 8 23mm (0.9in) 100mm (3.9in) 205mm (8.1in) -150ºC to 1370ºC (-238ºF to 2498ºF) Yes

Thermal Barriers

Part Height Width Length Weight Temperature Duration @ Submersible
100ºC (212ºF) 200ºC (392ºF)
TB5009 60mm (2.4in) 204mm (8in) 394mm (15.5in) 4.4kg (9.7lbs) 3.0hrs 1.25hrs No
TB5010 100mm (3.9in) 219mm (8.6in) 393mm (15.5in) 6.0kg (13.2lbs) 10.0hrs 3.75hrs No
TB5011 40mm (1.6in) 195mm (7.7in) 384mm (15.1in) 3.0kg (6.6lbs) 2.5hrs 40min No
TB5815 40mm (1.6in) 178mm (7.0in) 398mm (15.7in) 3.1kg (6.8lbs) 2.0hrs - 1.0hrs (liquid) 45min - 22mins (liquid) Yes
TB5816 65mm (2.6in) 240mm (9.4in) 393mm (15.5in) 5.3kg (11.7lbs) 6.5hrs - 3.0hrs (liquid) 2hrs - 1hr (liquid) Yes
TB5016 120mm (4.7in) 206mm (8.1in) 401mm (15.8in) 6.3 913.9lbs) 8hrs 4hrs No
TB5817 105mm (4.1in) 150mm (5.9in) 360mm (14.2in) 6.3kg (13.9lbs) 14hrs 4.5hrs Yes

Monitor product and ambient temperatures through the entire cooking/freezing process

Designed to measure and log true product and environmental temperatures and to deliver reliable, accurate HACCP process validation, the Datapaq Food Tracker System is the ideal solution for demanding food processing applications.

The system is particularly suited to poultry, meat and seafood processing; commercial baking; frozen food production; commercial pasteurization and sterilization; and proving your compliance with HACCP regulations.

Because the Datapaq Food Tracker System can monitor both product and ambient temperatures throughout the entire cooking/freezing process – in both static and conveyorised ovens – it can help you better identify optimal cooking temperatures while still complying with industry standards. The system can also be used in steam cookers, deep fat fryers and blast freezers.

The Datapaq system can be used across a wide range of product and process types, allowing you to easily set up and calibrate ovens, as well as develop new cooking processes. This is achieved thanks to the interchangeable thermocouples, which can be mixed and matched depending on your specific need. The length of the thermocouples can also be customised to suit your exact process requirements.


Features

  • Reliable and accurate HACCP temperature profiling systems for demanding food processing applications
  • Data logger (6 or 8 Channels) with IP67 waterproofing rating
  • Stores up to eight runs before need to download data
  • Comprehensive thermal barrier range to suit different process demands
  • Powerful yet easy-to-use Insight™ analysis software including process lethality calculations
  • Interchangeable thermocouples to suit your range of products


MultiPaq21 Data Logger

The MultiPaq21 data logger has up to eight channels (Type T or K), allowing you to collect product and environmental temperatures from up to eight locations at once. Using flexible thermocouple cables, the temperature sensors can be positioned precisely within the product, on the surface or in the air. They can record temperatures without the data logger or its mass influencing the response characteristics of the sensors and thus, the accuracy of the readings.

The data logger is designed to withstand the most hostile of food processing applications and is rated to IP67 with special waterproof thermocouple connections protecting against steam, water showers and routine cleaning procedures. The logger will store up to eight profiles before it needs to be downloaded.


Thermal Barriers

Employing the same insulation technology as that used in an aircraft's 'black box', Datapaq thermal barriers are housed in a rugged stainless steel casing, designed to last for many years. Datapaq thermal barriers can withstand the harshest industrial cooking environments, including steam cooking, long duration high temperature baking, or even flash frying, where the whole system is submersed in oil.

Unlike some other systems, there is no need to place the data logger inside your product. Since the barrier can be located away from the product, the heating characteristics of the product will not be affected by the monitoring equipment.


Food Tracker Insight Software

Use Insight software to convert raw data into meaningful information about your process, including instant reports on lethality. Document your process for increasing productivity, as well as formal documentation, such as HACCP.

  • Process Analysis: Automatically calculate all your process critical control points to satisfy your HACCP requirements.
  • Lethality Calculations & Reporting: Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk in your particular process and product (Fo value), ensuring your food is of the highest quality.
  • Process Optimization & Fault Finding: Quickly locate the exact position of hot or cold spots in the oven, minimizing production loss.
  • Reporting: Generate certified and traceable profile reports to satisfy all your HACCP validation documentation needs.
  • Monitoring: Observe the exact moment on your PC when your product reaches the required safe cooking temperature.

For more information, download the Food Tracker Insight Software brochure and Report Samples-Standard Report and Lethality Report.


Optional Thermocouples

Thermocouples (Type T or K) are supplied with water tight connectors and gold plated connections to provide IP67 rating of the logger. Reliability and accuracy are guaranteed in the most hostile of environments, including steam, water and condensation. Thermocouples can be mixed, matched and interchanged according to the type of process and product. Thermocouple cable lengths can also be customized to match the exact requirements of the process.

For detailed information, download the list of thermocouples (PDF).