How do food manufacturers ensure what we eat is safe? As demands on production grow and food processing becomes more industrialized, quality control for food safety is increasingly critical.
Efforts to increase productivity have introduced more automated and high-speed processing machinery into food production lines. When a food item is being processed, it passes through several machines, sieves, conveyer belts, drums, and tanks. Most of these machinery components are made of metal alloys, and each of these components that the food item encounters can increase the risk of foreign metal contamination.