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Our vision from the beginning has been to offer superior quality products that promote a healthy lifestyle and family fun. We offer a selection of items that enable you to maintain freshness in the foods you love. Additionally, you can keep your favorite foodstuffs fresher and healthier for a longer period of time. Vacuum packing and dehydrating allows you to buy fresh bulk produce, fish, and meats when they are in season at a lower cost than prepackaged foods.
You save money and get higher quality food!
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Understanding the differences
- Home style to Commercial
This guide is written to explain the differences between machines and the
associated bag materials.
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Home style Vacuum Packers:
These Vacuum Packers are commonly referred to as suction style machine.
Price range $50.00 to $500.00 is common.
The bag hangs outside the machine
using atmospheric pressure to push the air out of the bag, or as some
understand it, sucking the air out of the bag.
Either way,
the common style of bag used in this machine has a channel, texture, liner,
and fiber to allow the machine to remove the air from the bag.
These bags in the past have been very expensive. But that time has passed
and the patents are expired and since the summer of 2006 you are seeing many
types of bags on the market.
This is a very welcome new
development.
If you have a machine or are looking to
purchase a machine and the bag goes under a nozzle or into a channel you
will need to purchase a bag material that has channels, texture, liner, or
fiber for best results.
The quantity packaging is usually
25 to 100 bags per case 2-mil, 3-mil, 3.5-mil and the rare 4-mil bag.
Roll material is also common for these machines.
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Home use VS Resale Food Distribution:
There are very strict
guidelines involving food since 911.
The home-style vacuum packers such as Foodsaver, Deni, Rival, Kenmore ,
Sinbo, Magic Vac and others are NOT approved for use in
commercial distribution of food.
These machines are not
approved for use in packaging food for resale, by health
departments across the country.
The bags are FDA approved for
food use, IN HOMES - not for
wholesale/resale usage!
Do not be mislead by Ebay and other sites
that brag and boast of selling products across the
country with Foodsaver and similar machines and associated bags. It is illegal!
You may get away with it for a
while, but the
health department will not approve a Foodsaver or similar
machine for resale commercial use.
This information comes direct from the King County Health Department, in
Seattle Washington. We have been interviewed and given instructions
many times and most recently at the 2005 Foodservice Show.
There is an increased awareness by the Health Departments about the
information being passing out to commercial users. Be informed! Any site can
drop ship or sell you a bag "Cheap Cheap Cheap".
Distributors like this are popping up all over the Internet. These
Internet sellers have no experience on how it will hold up to your specific
needs. Most are telling you it's OK to use these bags and rolls for resale!
This is just bad, misleading information designed to make them a quick buck,
not designed with your best interest in mind. This information can
cost you money and in many cases fines with your health departments, not to
mention lawsuits from your consumers.
Textured bags and the associated machines are FDA approved and designed for
home use machines only, not for resale food distribution, especially across
state lines.
FDA approval only means it is approved "save around food" this does not
approve it for commercial use.
Commercial FDA approved bags are 1/4 the cost of home-style bags. So there
is no reason to use a home-style bag or roll for commercial resale use.
Any savvy business owner understands to spend the money on the equipment not
the disposable bag.
Chamber Style Vacuum Packers:
Chamber style vacuum packers are commonly used in commercial use applications.
The smaller machines are becoming increasingly popular in homes and gourmet
kitchens.
To use these machines product is placed in a flat pouch. This pouch is
a bag without channels, texture, liner or fiber. It is flat on both sides, clear
or printed with many styles of zippers, gussets, windows.
These commercial bags
are seen every day in stores all over the world.
The entire bag goes into the
chamber of the machine. The lid then closes and vacuuming and sealing then takes
place. These machines are much less messy and being designed for true commercial
use they can be used for hundreds of bags per day.
The case packaging of pouches
for these machines is 500 to1000 bags per case per size, 2 mil, 3mil, 4mil and 5
mil bags are common.
There are companies such as ours that will break a case for
customers who just don't use 1000 bags at a time. But most web sites will keep
cases intact at 500 to 1000 per case.
No Rolls for these machines. We recommend
the VacMaster Line built in the USA
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