The food and beverages processing industry requires a huge amount of water. One of the main problems is the amount of waste water continuously produced in the food plants. The water is used as an ingredient, a cleaning agent, for boiling and cooling purposes, for transportation and conditioning of raw materials: 

Food processing can be divided into four main fields:

• Meat, poultry and seafood 

• Fruits and vegetables

• Dairy

• Beverages

As an example, find below some wastewater issues and Lenntech pretreatments associated to a kind of food processing.