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What does it mean?
Bristle retention re-engineered
Fully moulded
Reduced risk of bristle loss
What are the benefits to the end-user?
Minimised risk of foreign bodies from the cleaning tools (no metal or resin, reduced risk of bristle loss)
Fewer product rejections, product recalls, and waste
Less associated costs
Brand/business protection
Greater peace of mind
Difference Explained
Plastics in foodstuffs are some of the most commonly reported foreign bodies. This includes plastic bristles from cleaning brushware.
Investigations conducted by Vikan show that bristle retention in traditional drilled and stapled, and resin set, drilled and stapled
brushware can be highly variable. The new UST technology solves this problem.
A bristle bundle is secured in the drilled hole with a metal staple.
Bristle fixation depends on:
its position within the bristle bundle
whether other bristles have already been dislodged
the thickness of the bristle
If one bristle dislodges, the whole bundle becomes looser and subsequent bristles require less force to be pulled out.
Resin set, drilled and stapled brushware also utilises drilled and stapled technology but additionally uses epoxy resin, which is poured around the bristle bundles to further secure the bristles.
Bristle fixation depends on:
its position within the bristle bundle ā the resin helps secure the outer bristles
whether other bristles have already been dislodged
the thickness of the bristles
The resin does not secure all of the bristles equally and those in the centre of the bristle bundle may not be secured by resin at all. Consequently, bristle retention is variable and, if a bristle from the centre of the bundle is dislodged, others in the bundle can become looser and easier to dislodge.
*Some products containing resin are not fully compliant with the EU regulations.
Each bristle is individually moulded into the brush head.
Bristle fixation is consistent regardless of:
position of the bristle in the bundle
whether other bristles have been dislodged
Further ways by which UST technology reduces the risk of foreign body contamination:
no risk of metal (staple) fragments in the food product
no risk of resin in the food product
the hygienic design of the UST brushes means that there is minimal risk of other foreign bodies being harboured and transferred