Food Safe Deli

Liability Risks

Food Safety Awareness for Retailers: How to Reduce Your Liability Risks

As a food retailer, you are operating on very slim margins and the need to control product shrinkage and discard (spoiled or dried out deli items caused by exposure to ambient heat and light).

Visible spoilage on food items stored in both service and self-serve refrigerated display cases are noticed by shoppers. Even more so, by department managers who struggle to reduce the number of discounted items in their department or time invested in re-wrapping product that shows visible seepage (product that is sweating out it's natural juices/moisture content).

Take Advantage of Merchandising Tools that Reduce Shrink, Exttend Shelf Life and Ensure Food Safety

There are a many products on the product that actively promote food safety however, only a select few have cross benefits. Benefits like:

• shelf life extension,
• lower operating costs,
• improved product integrity & appearance, and the
• optimal merchandising and presentation of food

Promolux balanced spectrum low radiation lamps and Econofrost night covers for open display cases are ideal for fresh food display cases. Both products will aid you getting the maximum return from your perishable food products, by slowing down the deterioration process and retaining the products' fresh and appetizing appearance.

Keeping food fresh will also promote consumer safety and help avoid liability risks that may arise from the unsafe storage and contamination of food products at the retail level.

By investing in these shelf life extension products you will confidently be making the most of your food safety practices, presenting your customer with the freshest and tastiest food choices and in the case of Econofrost helping to increase the overall life of your refrigeration units.

How Promolux Works

Promolux lights are a low radiation lamp that utilizes the full spectrum of colors within their lights which are a great replacement to the yellow or white light fluorescents used by most North American food retailers.

Yellow or white lights have the effect of making food products look dull and less appealing. Furthrmore, the high level of visible and non-visible radiation that radiate from unspecialized fluorescents increase the surface temperature of food products, raising bacteria counts and cause fresh food products to tan and discolor quickly.

Promolux uses balanced safe spectrum technology to illuminate the food's natural vibrant colors, and create a powerful merchandising presentation.

With 86 percent lower radiation than regular lamps, Promolux products help food retailers increase shelf life by up to 100 percent (retailers report the doubling of shelf life).

The initial investment in Promolux is quickly recouped; thousands of retailers worldwide who have chosen Promolux have experienced improved profit margins and gained a competitive edge by displaying consistently appetizing foods.

Protect Packaged Deli Products with Econofrost Night Covers

Perishable products avaialable in open refrigerated display cases and merchandisers are susceptible to the damaging effects of ambient light and heat. Econofrost reflective night blinds offer food retailers with another simple and efective method of reducing energy costs and product shrinkage.

Why You Need to Install Econofrost...

Econofrost night covers retract discretely into the cassette housing that is retrofitted to the canopy of the display case. At night, store maitnenance staff pull the night covers down over, creating a protective thermal barrier which reflects the stores ambient heat and light.

In addition, the night covers retain the cold air circulating inside which improves the case and product temperatures.

The thermal barrier effect achieved by Econofrost covers helps:

• maximize the efficiency of open refrigerated display cases,
• lower the stores utility bill and energy consumption,
• prevent cold air spillage into the aisles, and
• improve case & product temperatures (lasts up to 15 hours after the covers have been retracted)

Since Econofrost is employed at night, shoppers enjoy full, unrestricted access to all the products and merchandise during stores regular business hours and greater shopper comfort.