Food and beverage wastewater treatment: How DAF improves compliance and water reuseSOUTH Africa’s food and beverage industry, worth more than US$20 billion, depends on water at every stage of production, from preparation to cleaning. Managing wastewater, however, remains one of the sector’s biggest operational and environmental challenges, increasing treatment costs, compliance obligations and pressure to recycle and reuse water efficiently. F&B companies need a flexible and high-value water treatment solution that is also exceptionally effective at capturing organic and oily contaminants. “Effluent from food and beverage plants carries high levels of organic contaminants, which puts processors under pressure to meet compliance standards and limits their ability to reuse water. DAF systems are very productive on their own and when combined as a pretreatment ahead of other systems.