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Dairy, Food & Beverage Hygiene for Food & Beverage in Namibia

This is the heart of the relationship: the 3-step cycle — alkaline, acid rinse, sanitizer — that Cernol formulates in Windhoek and Namibian dairies, breweries and butcheries run every production day. The segmentation sheet spells the steps out product by product, and the plants that follow it pass their audits.

The local problems this range solves

  • Milkstone from hard borehole water hiding bacteria on visually clean stainless
  • CIP circuits needing non-foaming acid chemistry
  • Butchery fat, tripe and smokehouse residues beyond ordinary detergent
  • Bottle-washing foam overwhelming washer tanks
  • Audit trails demanding named products, dilutions and contact times

Compliance & documentation

The cleaning log — product, dilution, contact time per line — is what EU-style and HACCP inspections examine; Cernol documents all three for every product supplied.

Local tip

Put the sanitizer switch dates (the 6-month QAC ↔ chlorine rotation) on the plant calendar now — audits ask when you last rotated, and “when we remembered” is the wrong answer.

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The lines food & beverage buyers draw from this category most.

PSP Powder pack

PSP Powder

Cernol Food HygieneFood

High-foaming chlorinated alkaline cleaning powder based on chlorine — dairy and fish-factory alkaline cleaner.

Available in5 kg25 kg

Available from: Windhoek & Walvis Bay agent

Klenz 12 pack

Klenz 12

Cernol Food HygieneFood

Chlorine sanitizer and solvent detergent (liquid) — dairy alkaline cleaner that cleans and sanitizes in one step.

Available in5 L

Available from: Windhoek

Sypo pack

Sypo

Antisep 100Food

Sodium hypochlorite chlorine sanitizer for dairies, breweries and butcheries.

Available in750 ml5 L25 L200 L

Available from: Windhoek & Walvis Bay agent

Pansolv pack

Heavy-duty detergent for pans, pots, racks and equipment at 50 °C+ — butcheries, Meatco and fishing factories.

Available in5 kg25 kg

Available from: Windhoek & Walvis Bay agent

Smokehouse Cleaner pack

Heavy-duty alkaline cleaner for smokehouse cleaning (liquid) — all butcheries and fisheries.

Available in5 L25 L

Available from: Windhoek & Walvis Bay agent

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Food & Beverage Hygiene for food & beverage: asked and answered

Can a small dairy run the full 3-step cycle without CIP equipment?

Yes — the chemistry scales down: PSP Powder or Klenz 12 as the manual alkaline scrub, an Acidet or Hydrosan acid step made up in a dosing bucket, and Sypo or Tetramine 2008 as the terminal sanitizer. The steps and their order matter more than the pumps. Small Namibian dairies pass the same inspections as piped plants on exactly this manual version; what fails them is skipping the acid step, not lacking equipment.

How is the acid-rinse frequency set for Namibian water?

By water hardness and what your surfaces show: with typical Namibian borehole feed, daily acid rinsing after the alkaline step is the safe default for milk-contact circuits, relaxing only if inspection shows no mineral haze. European guidance written for soft water suggests less — and that imported assumption is the single most common cause of milkstone build-up we see in local plants. When we survey your plant we set the frequency from your actual water, not a manual.

What is the correct smokehouse cleaning sequence?

Warm the chamber slightly (residue softens), apply Smokehouse Cleaner to walls, racks and trolleys, give it the label dwell time to break the tar-fat glaze, then hot-rinse thoroughly and dry before the next smoke. Racks with heavy build-up go through a Pansolv soak at 50 °C+ instead. Butcheries that clean the smokehouse weekly with the right chemistry avoid the annual chisel-and-blowtorch ordeal — and the off-flavours old tar feeds into product.

Which products cover a brewery specifically?

The same cycle as the dairy, tuned to brewing soils: PSP Powder or Klenz 12 as the alkaline clean on tanks and lines, Acidet on the stainless the brewery lives on, and Sypo or Tetramine 2008 as the rotating sanitizer. Around the plant: Chlordet 110 on floors, Greasolv where lubricants and grime meet, and the hand-hygiene line at every entrance. Tell us the vessel sizes and we will spec the doses per circuit.

Serving Food & Beverage from our Windhoek branch

Cernol Chemicals Windhoek — Factory & Sales Office · Cnr Kallie Roodt & Etienne Rosseau Street, Northern Industrial Area, Windhoek · Tel 061 262 985 · Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00

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