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Food
Tracker
®
USER MANUAL
for use with
Issue 3
MA5040A

Datapaq is the world’s leading manufacturer
of process temperature-monitoring
instrumentation.The company maintains
this leadership by continual development
of its advanced, easy-to-use Tracker systems.
DATAPAQ PART NO. MA5040A
Food Tracker
®
User Manual
for use with
Issue 3
Europe & Asia
Datapaq Ltd.
Lothbury House, Cambridge Technopark
Newmarket Road
Cambridge CB5 8PB
United Kingdom
Tel. [phone]
Fax [phone]
Email [e-mail]
www.datapaq.com
North & South America
Datapaq, Inc.
3 Corporate Park Dr., Unit 1
Derry
NH 03038
USA
Tel . [phone]
Fax [phone]
Email [e-mail]
www.datapaq.com

© Datapaq Ltd., Cambridge, UK 2012
All rights reserved
Datapaq Ltd. makes no representations or warranties of any kind
whatsoever with respect to the contents hereof and specifically
disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any
particular purpose. Datapaq Ltd. shall not be liable for errors
contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in
connection with the furnishing, performance or use of the Datapaq
software, associated hardware or this material.
Datapaq Ltd. reserves the right to revise this publication from time to
time and to make changes to the content hereof without obligation to
notify any person of such revisions or changes.
Datapaq, the Datapaq logo and Food Tracker are registered
trademarks of Datapaq. Microsoft and Windows are
registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Manual set in 10 pt Gill Sans.
User manuals are available in other languages;
contact Datapaq for details.
SAFETY WARNINGS
For safe use of Datapaq equipment, always:
•Take care to follow its supplied instructions.
•Observe any warning signs shown on the equipment itself.
Indicates potential hazard.
On Datapaq equipment this normally warns of high
temperature, but where you see the symbol you should
consult the manual for further explanation.
Warns of high temperatures.
Where this symbol appears on Datapaq equipment, the
surface of the equipment may be excessively hot (or
excessively cold) and may thus cause skin burns.

European
Union
Directives
The following product types
MultiPaq21 Thermocouple Data Logger
manufactured by Datapaq Ltd.
Lothbury House, Cambridge CB5 8PB, UK
comply with the requirements of European Union directives as follows.
Directive 2004/108/EC Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
Standards Applied
EN61326-1: 2006 – Group 1, Class B equipment (emissions section only),
and Industrial Location Immunity (immunity section only).
CFR47: 2007 Class A – Code of Federal Regulations: Part 15 Subpart B,
Radio Frequency Devices, Unintentional Radiators.
RoHS Compliance Datapaq temperature monitoring equipment is
exempt from EU Directive 2002/95/EC (restriction of the use of certain
hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment) under
category 9 Monitoring and Control Instruments. This Datapaq product
nevertheless uses RoHS-compliant components and manufacturing processes.
Conforms to relevant South Korean EMC Standards.
Electromagnetic Compatibility Applies to use in
Korea only. Class A Equipment (Industrial Broadcasting &
Communication Equipment). This product meets
requirements for industrial (Class A) electromagnetic
wave equipment and the seller or user should take notice
of it. This equipment is intended for use in business
environments and is not to be used in homes.

CONTENTS
9 Introduction
13 Insight Setup
13 Installing/Removing Insight
14 Communications Setup
17 Hardware
17 Data Logger – the MultiPaq21
22 Thermal Protection – Barriers and Heatsinks
27 Thermocouple Probes
31 Food Tray
32 Thermocouple Jig
33 Carrying Cases
35 Running a Temperature Profile
35 Setting Up
35 Selecting the Thermal Barrier
37 Probe Selection and Placement
40 Preparing the Data Logger and Thermocouples
40 Resetting the Data Logger
43 Installing the Logger in the Thermal Barrier
45 Placing the System in the Oven
46 Recovering the System
48 Downloading Data
49 Specifying Oven Start
49 Completing the Documentation

51 Using Hardwired Telemetry
51 Running a Temperature Profile Using Hardwired
Telemetry
54 Using Multiple Loggers
55 Humidity Measurements
55 Humidity Sensor Specifications
57 Humidity Sensor in Use
61 Troubleshooting
61 Logger Communications Problems
61 Stopping the Logger
61 Logger Download Error Messages
62 Checking the Data
62 Testing the Logger and Thermocouples
63 Printing Problems
63 Datapaq Service Department
65 INDEX

FOOD TRACKER Introduction 9
Introduction
Datapaq
®Tracker systems – incorporating Insight™software – are a complete
solution for monitoring the temperature profiles of products within a heat-
treatment process; accurate data acquisition and powerful analysis techniques
are combined with flexibility and ease of use. The Food Tracker
®system is
designed specifically for product temperature monitoring in the food processing
industry: for static or conveyorized cook/chill processes alike, Food Tracker
provides a complete historical record of the temperature reached by your
product – and by the oven environment – throughout the process, an essential
requirement for process validation under HACCP regulations.
•Proving/proofing and baking
•Drying/dehydration
•Steam cook
•Pasteurization
•Sterilization (retorts)
•Roasting
•Flash frying
•Blanching/boiling (full immersion)
•Blast freezing
•Spiral freezing
With accurate, repeatable product temperature guaranteed, achieve clear
benefits to your product and process:
Food safety – Create the HACCP documentary proof that your product has
achieved the cook/cool temperatures necessary to guarantee the quality and
safety of your cooked meats, poultry, bakery products and ready-meals.
Quality – Guarantee texture, taste, color and size through control of the
temperature profile.
Productivity – Optimize batch-cook programs or conveyorized line speeds to
maximize product throughput.
Product yield – Control processes to prevent overcooking so ensuring maximum
product yields and palatability, and eliminating waste.
Reduce downtime – Highlight immediately when and where process problems
occur (e.g. hot/cold spots), and have the data to solve them.
Economy – Maximize the operating efficiency of your process to save on oven/
freezer running costs.
Datapaq Food Tracker temperature profiling systems travel through the oven or
freezer with the food product, making a complete record of the temperatures

10 Introduction FOOD TRACKER
reached by the product itself throughout the process. Data gathering is carried
out by a MultiPaq21 data logger contained in a protective thermal barrier, and
Insight software is used for detailed analysis of the data gathered during the
process. Datapaq systems offer the only reliable means of measuring the true
product and environmental temperature throughout the process, an essential
requirement for process validation under HACCP regulations
A Food Tracker system in use in a typical application.
Datapaq systems are designed for the harshest environments, including
steam cooking, deep fat fryers and blast freezers. You can monitor the product
temperature for the entire cook/freeze cycle in either static or conveyorized
ovens.
From one run and one logger, you may collect product/environmental
temperatures from up to eight locations, profiling your entire process rather
than just an isolated part of it (e.g. different racks in a batch oven or locations
across a conveyor belt).
Collect data for up to eight individual profile runs (multiple lines or repeat
optimization runs) in the memory of the data logger before there is any need to
transfer data to the computer. You can thus collect all the data you need in one
session, with no need to repeatedly scrub and gown-up between runs as you
move from production to office in order to access the PC.