The shelf life on the pack, proved by calculation instead of by three months of waiting
SALVEDA reads the recipe, the process and the real temperature of the cold chain, computes how the dangerous microorganisms will behave, and issues the finished justification dossier that an inspector and a retail chain auditor will accept
- Product item
- Chilled potato tortilla
- Target organism
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Regulatory category
- supports growth
- Laboratory verification
- one confirmatory test
- Issued in
- 4 days
Every dossier carries the version of the recipe, the version of the model and the name of the specialist who signed it
A duty that a small manufacturer physically cannot discharge
Proving a shelf life costs between €1,500 and €4,000 for one product and takes eight to sixteen weeks, and the whole procedure starts again whenever the recipe, the supplier or the packaging changes
Three quarters of the food companies in Spain employ fewer than ten people and keep no microbiologist. The obligation, however, contains no exemption by headcount: it falls on a cheese dairy of six people exactly as it falls on a factory of six hundred
Understating became expensive
The prevention of food loss is now an obligation with a hierarchy of priorities and reporting, and the penalties reach half a million euro. Setting fifteen days where twenty-eight are achievable stopped being a free strategy
Overstating became unsellable
For products that support the growth of Listeria monocytogenes, absence in 25 grams now applies through the whole period on the market unless the manufacturer has demonstrated that the level stays under 100 colony-forming units per gram
This is what the calculation looks like from the inside
Move the parameters of a real product and watch the growth curve, the moment the critical threshold is reached and the justified shelf life change together with them
The dashed curve is what a model trained on a laboratory culture medium predicts. The solid one is the same model after our matrix correction. The distance between them is the days that over-caution takes away from a manufacturer
Input parameters
Six of the eight fields of the working prototype
The demonstration runs on published models and open parameters. In the workstation the same calculation runs on your recipe, on the temperature series from your data loggers, and ends with a signed dossier
The price of a justification, before and after
A subscription to the middle tariff costs less over a whole year than a single challenge test on a single product, so the price objection is settled by arithmetic before the conversation starts
| Indicator | Current practice | With SALVEDA | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recalculation after a recipe change | in practice the full cost again | zero, included in the subscription | eliminated |
| Selecting and rejecting formulations | 3–5 months | 1–2 weeks | 10× faster |
| Full development cycle of a new product | 4–6 months | 6–8 weeks | 3× faster |
| Cost of one recipe iteration | €1,500–4,000 | zero, a few minutes | eliminated |
| Tests across a range that falls into three categories | one per item | one per category | from 20 to 3 |
One computational core, three ways of using it
The same core serves the quality specialist, the retail shelf and the domestic refrigerator, and every measurement taken at the far end of the chain comes back and sharpens the calculation at the near end
PRO
- Justified shelf life and the regulatory category of every product item
- A finished dossier issued under the signature of a compliance specialist
- The minimum sufficient test plan and the order to the laboratory
- The reformulation copilot for a target shelf life
RETAIL
- The temperature history of the batch instead of an idealised four degrees
- A decision on markdown, display priority, donation or processing
- An entry that goes straight into the loss prevention reporting
CASA
- The real remaining shelf life after the pack has been opened
- The difference between the date that ends safety and the date that ends quality
- A heightened-caution mode for those who need one
- Measured domestic conditions returning into the core
Send us one product and we will show the calculation on it
Tell us what you make and where the shelf life currently comes from. We will come back with the parameters that decide the answer for your category, and with an honest note on where a laboratory test still remains mandatory
- A reply from a person, not an automatic sequence
- No obligation and no data left with us if you decide against it
- Conversations in Spanish, Catalan, English and French