Hygienic engineering of fluid bed and spray dryer plants

This article is an extended summary of the report prepared by the Dry Materials Handling subgroup of the European Hygienic Engineering Process & Design Group (EHEDG). Originally published in May 2005, this is the 34th in the series published in TIFS. The full report was prepared by K. Mager (Chairman) lJ.G.H. Hutten, M. Jacob, K. Masters, G.M.H. Meesters, W. Mostert, J. Oosterom, J. Roels and W. Rumpf and is available from CCFRA at pubs@campden.co.uk. Information about EHEDG can be found at www.ehedg.org. The production of EHEDG Guidelines is supported by the European Commission under the Quality of Life Programme, Project HYFOMA (QLK1-CT-2000-01359).