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Food plastic buckets: How to stabilize your pallets and avoid contamination

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This packaging is ideal for storing food products. Like all other packaging in direct contact with food, care must be taken to avoid the dangers associated with their storage and transport in order to avoid any risk of contamination. For this, it is necessary to understand what the specific dangers can be, why and how an external contamination could occur and finally, how to guard against a contamination incident.

NON-SLIP PALLET INSERT

Pails designed to contain foodstuffs are made of food-grade plastic. They consist of a round, oval or rectangular container, a hermetically sealed lid, an anti-opening ring and, sometimes, a protruding handle.

Their circular shape, protruding handle and fragile lid seal make palletizing complex.

WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF STORING OR TRANSPORTING FOOD BUCKETS?

Plastic buckets are suitable for packaging powdered, paste or liquid foodstuffs. They are often used for packaging: food ingredients, culinary preparations, sauces, condiments, dairy products, animal feed, sweets, etc.

What are the risks of contamination?

By container migration

By premature opening

WHY AND HOW CAN EXTERNAL CONTAMINATION OCCUR?

The transportation of these food pails can be complex. The buckets are placed on pallets suitable for contact with foodstuffs:

The buckets are stacked on several levels, from 2 to 10, which makes them very unstable. So, to avoid instability, you need to limit the height of your pallets.

HOW TO AVOID BREAKAGE WHEN TRANSPORTING THESE PLASTIC BUCKETS?

3 simple steps to take:

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