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Interdev Agroalimentaire  

The benefits of cleaned pots - A Producer of Sautéed Shrimp in the Philippines

	Type de fiche	Méthodes
	Mise en œuvre	Philippine Trade Training Center
(Philippines), GATE / GTZ(Allemagne), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH  
 (Allemagne)
	
	Zone géographique	Asie; Philippines; Pasay City

Contexte
This Manila-area food processor employed 31 people and an additional nine seasonal workers to cope with peaks in production. The company's main product was sautéed tiny shrimp. Realising that valuable raw material was being lost prior to the bottling process, an inexpensive rubber scraper was purchased and used to fully empty the cooking pans. This new procedure gave the company additional profits by reducing losses of the finished product to waste.
Problématique / Objectifs
The procedure for processing and bottling shrimp was a long-established practice in this small, family-run business. For as long as anyone could remember, a large wooden ladle had been used to empty the cooking pans of sautéed shrimp prior to filling the material into bottles, which were then sealed. When asked, the Production Manager estimated that it was possible that up to 3kg of the final cooked product was being put to waste in the washing water each day as a result of this inefficient procedure.
Description/Mise en oeuvre
ACTIONS TAKEN WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE
* Purchase of a rubber scraper.
* Employees were instructed to use this utensil in place of the wooden ladle and to completely clear the pans of the cooked material before washing them.

Résultats/Eléments chiffrés
ECONOMIC BENEFITS
Investment cost - US$ 1.95 - For the purchase of a rubber scraper
Annual savings - US$ 8,795 - By optimising the amount of raw material that ends up in the finished product
Payback period - immediate
	
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
By ensuring that the maximum amount of raw material ended up in the final product, this company became more profitable and at the same time, reduced its environmental impact by generating less solid waste. The company's waste water is also now less polluted and therefore more easily cleaned in the local sewage treatment system due to two factors: 1) less food residues end up in the washing water; and 2) a smaller amount of detergent is consequently being used to remove any last remaining residues from the cooking pans. 

Auteur : Carolin Bothe
Saisie le : 08/10/2001 

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	Contact	Philippine Trade Training Center
, PTTC Philippines

, 1300 Pasay City, Metro Manila
Tel.:632 834 134 449, Fax: 632 834 134 3, E-mail: MenandroOrtego@dti.gov.ph
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH  
 , GTZ
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	Références Bibliographiques	Eimer, Petra (P3U team); Bark, Kerstin .- Good Housekeeping Guide for Food Manufacturing and Processing , 2000/11/1  .- 100 pgs