Dear Reader:

Any processor of food or drink – if it is to be consumed by human or animal – must concern him/herself with food safety. Rest assured, someone else is concerned, and the more understanding a Facilities Manager has of the safety rating process, the more prepared that person will be, and the safer his/her plant will be.

The National Sanitation Foundation (as of recently renamed NSF International) is responsible for among other things, rating a food processing lighting fixture, and in fact approving (or disapproving) of its use in this type of environment.

Josh Schroeder of Lumen Link wrote an informative blog for Litetronics’ website on the NSF Rating System, and you can find it here: NSF-Rated Lighting: Food Safety, the Law, and Your LED Lighting Options. He goes into some detail as to what the rating system is, the seven steps a manufacturer must engage in to receive NSF approval, a...