ISO 23134:2022—Ground Roasted Coffee
The legend goes that in 800 AD, Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder, discovered coffee after noticing his goats become very energetic after eating berries from a…
NSF/ANSI 2-2022: Food Handling Equipment
An American National Standard, NSF/ANSI 2-2022: Food Equipment, covers food protection and sanitation requirements for a variety of food handling and processing equipment. A chef…
NSF/ANSI 7-2023: Commercial Refrigerators And Freezers
The refrigerators of the 1920s were deadly because their motorized compressors easily malfunctioned, allowing the refrigerants (i.e., toxic gases) to escape and sicken or kill…
ISO 6887-1:2017—Initial Suspension And Decimal Dilutions
While many microbes are harmless to humans, others can cause serious problems. They can spoil food, introduce toxins, cause disease, etc. The importance of microbiological…
ISO 8586:2023—Selection And Training Of Sensory Assessors
In the early 1950s, a milestone for sensory evaluation occurred when the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute developed the nine-point hedonic scale: a category scaling…
NSF/ANSI 25-2023: Vending Machines for Food and Beverages
An American National Standard, NSF/ANSI 25-2023: Vending Machines For Food And Beverages, addresses the performance and safety of vending machines. Vending Machine Components There’s an…
NSF/ANSI 51-2023: Food Equipment Materials
An American National Standard, NSF/ANSI 51-2023, doesn’t deal with what’s in your food—it focuses on what’s in the equipment used to make your food. Demand…
ANSI/ASHRAE 72-2022: Testing Refrigerators And Freezers
Can you imagine a world without refrigerators? It seems unlikely, as 99.8% of American homes own at least one refrigerator. ANSI/ASHRAE 72-2022: Method Of Testing…
IKECA Standards for Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning
Thousands of restaurant fires happen each year. These grease-borne conflagrations result in millions of dollars of property damage and lead to injuries and even fatalities….