3A 87-00
Mechanical Strainers
standard by 3-A Sanitary Standards, 11/19/2007
Full Description
This 3-A Sanitary Standard covers the sanitary aspects of mechanical strainers used for processing a mixture of liquid milk, milk products, and other liquid comestibles containing particulates. The equipment receives the product into a chamber (i.e., housing) which contains the components used for mechanically separating the product into two or more streams. The equipment shall start at the point where the product in-feed piping is connected to the mechanical strainer and ends at the points where the streams exit the mechanical strainer.