Making packaged snack foods for grocery stores involves several key requirements that ensure product quality, safety, and marketability. Grantek has decades of experience helping leading North American food manufacturers throughout all aspects of their production process as they manufacture packaged snack foods.
Food manufacturers must comply with FDA regulations and obtain necessary permits and licenses. This includes following Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and implementing Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems to identify and control potential food safety hazards.
Proper sanitation protocols, quality control testing, and contamination prevention are critical. This includes establishing clean production environments and regular testing for pathogens and contaminants. High-quality, consistent ingredients must be sourced, with consideration for shelf stability. Formulations need to balance taste, texture, and nutrition while avoiding allergen cross-contamination. Specialized equipment for mixing, cooking, extruding, baking, or frying is needed, along with packaging machinery. Production facilities must maintain consistent environmental conditions. Packaging must protect the product from oxygen, moisture, light, and physical damage while extending shelf life. Materials need to be food-grade and compliant with regulations, incorporating proper labeling with nutrition facts, ingredients, allergen warnings, and expiration dates.
Grantek’s expertise goes well beyond simply automating food production. We integrate systems through all five levels of the ISA-95 model to provide actionable business intelligence. Our Food and Beverage Consulting team can help generate a Strategic Roadmap to plan future upgrades and expansions, allowing clients to improve efficiency, increase yields, and maximize ROI by implementing upgrades in logical steps.
Our talented engineering teams are also familiar with hybrid versions of these processes, and experienced in MES, Serialization, Vision systems, and Label Verification Requirements.
Email info@grantek.com to learn how your operations can benefit from Grantek’s experience.
We have proven experience automating and integrating the following types of Food and Beverage production:
- Continuous process.
- Batch process.
- Discrete manufacturing (assembly and packaging).