Edesia Global Nutrition is a non-profit social enterprise making life-saving foods that help solve the world’s malnutrition health crisis. Edesia works to create milk powder-based food formulas to feed and treat malnourished children. Avid Engineers was responsible for designing the MEP-FP systems for Edesia’s 85,000-SF processing and storage facility on a green grass site in North Smithfield, RI.

The facility was required to be compliant with both the European Commission Enterprise’s Rules for Governing Sterile Medicinal Products and the FDA’s cGMP Practices as described in Title 21 for Food and Drugs. The space included 10,000-SF of office space, 25,000-SF of preparation space and 50,000-SF of warehouse. Avid Engineers provided a central make-up air system that provided outdoor air to all air handling units. The air handling units that provided air for the clean manufacturing areas were required to meet ISO-08 room conditions by maintaining particle count and set air change rate; the air handling units were paired with HEPA filtered ceiling diffusers and the space set to maintain positive pressure.