Vacuum-packed cheese ages in its package. A seal channel or a slow leaker means mold weeks later in the cooler, long after the shift that made it. Checking seal bar temperature against a calibrated probe, inspecting covers and anvils, and leak-testing a sample is the cheapest point to catch it.
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Vacuum-packed cheese ages in its package. A seal channel or a slow leaker means mold weeks later in the cooler, long after the shift that made it. Checking seal bar temperature against a calibrated probe, inspecting covers and anvils, and leak-testing a sample is the cheapest point to catch it.
Seal bar covers burn through and nobody changes them until leakers spike. The packager's own temperature display keeps reading the setpoint while the bar surface runs cooler. The cost arrives as reworked or dumped product in the aging rooms.
Weekly for a packager running daily; change covers on condition. Tie the result to QA's leak-test record so a trend in leakers points back to the machine, not the film.
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