Solution Helps Ensure Food Safety and Quality Standards Compliance

Provides insights to identify priority pathways for improvement

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Jul 19th, 2021

Novolyze Food Safety And Quality Platform

A cloud-based solution, the Novolyze platform digitalizes food safety and quality programs by aggregating, normalizing, and centralizing data and transforming it into actionable insights. The digital, SaaS-based food safety and quality platform includes environmental monitoring (EM) capabilities that streamline activities associated with pathogen, hygiene, and allergen monitoring, including surface, air, and water testing, in a factory environment. The EM capabilities include the digitization of the factory layout and hygienic zoning, scheduling, and the execution of sampling plans, remediation, reporting, and trending activities.

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Novolyze Food Safety And Quality Platform

Solution Helps Ensure Food Safety and Quality Standards Compliance

Provides insights to identify priority pathways for improvement

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