Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
By Maria Kahale
Information about their use, their adverse effects, and safer alternatives.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Merrimack Ales in Lowell, received a grant to test how well electrochemical activation (ECA) technology works for cleaning and sanitizing equipment used during the beer brewing process.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Breweries need to both clean and sanitize their vats between batches.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
In the spring of 2021, ten New England food and beverage processors and manufacturers took part in a Lean
Manufacturing 64-hour certification course focused on reducing pollution at their facilities.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
By Maria Kahale
A compendium of case studies illustrating achievements in pollution prevention by implementing lean manufacturing techniques.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Cleaning products containing chlorine bleach and acid inadvertently used together on the floor of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant recently killed the general manager. Within two weeks, chemical fumes from mixing cleaning chemicals at a Red Robin restaurant in Woburn sent three employees to the hospital.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Strong cleaning and disinfecting (C&D) products such as those containing bleach and quaternary ammonium
compounds (quats) are increasingly used as microbicides for infection prevention and sanitation of environmental
surfaces in various settings, including health care, child care, school, food service and production facilities, dairies
and breweries, and many other industrial facilities.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
The P2OASys evaluations were performed using Safety Data Sheets for each product which can be found in Supplement 2.
Industry/Sector: Food & Beverage
Merrimack Ales received two small business grants from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI)
during fiscal years 2016 and 2017 to test alternative technologies and processes for cleaning and
sanitizing their brewing and fermenting vats.
