Water Filtration Systems
Removal of Cryptosporidium

There is much focus upon washing fresh produce in Chlorine, Organic Washes and Preservatives which help kill bacteria and enhance end product shelf life. Our filters provide you and your customers an extra insurance policy. Our filters can be installed to filter the water supply to individual machines (Salad Washers, Dipping Systems, Hydro-Coolers etc.), or to the main supply to the factory to give complete peace of mind to filter water within the whole production line, including the cleaning process.

The Filter Assembly features a housing constructed from Stainless Steel 316L which accommodates pleated filter cartridges with high surface areas and high dirt holding capacities. It is an economical and effective solution to help the removal of solid particulates down to 1μm(absolute) and the potentially fatal Cryptosporidium Oocyst (via the live Crypto tested and independently approved filter cartridge).

             

The potential risk of Cryptosporidium present in end product and on supermarket shelves could cost your business dearly.

Does your Company show due diligence in terms of Crypto filtration of product contact water? Your customers may think you should?

Cryptosporidium is a parasite that infects man and a wide range of domestic and wild animals. It causes cryptosporidiosis, which in healthy adults, is an unpleasant diarrhoea lasting for up to two weeks. At present there is no cure for cryptosporidiosis and the condition can be serious for, and fatal to, the immune-compromised e.g. those receiving chemotherapy or AIDS patients. There have been a number of drinking water-related outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis, some of which have attracted considerable media attention. These outbreaks have involved from a few dozen to thousands of cases of cryptosporidiosis. Cryptosporidium poses a challenge to water treatment processes because of its small size and resistance to disinfection processes. However, the Inspectorate’s investigations of outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis have shown that they are invariably related to inadequate provision or poor operation of water treatment. There is good evidence that careful operation of the coagulation/ flocculation and filtration processes provides consumers with a very high level of protection against exposure to the parasite.