Companies in the food and beverage industry must meet high hygiene requirements in order to avoid possible contamination. These requirements must already be taken into account when planning a production plant.

Even if the regulatory requirements for food plants are not (yet) as strict as for pharmaceutical plants, similarly high standards are already being set in the engineering of a plant for the food industry. Systems that can be drained, cleaning options and sterilizability are just as much a part of the hygiene standards to be complied with as proof of the suitability of materials, risk analyses and documentation of the entire system, including welding certificates and material certificates.