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Machinery Technology: Inspection/ Detection

Inspection & Detection: Validation, Monitoring and Verification Processes

These processes are critical to the effectiveness of food safety inspection systems.

March 15, 2018

The U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires that food manufacturing and processing companies identify potential hazards in their production systems and then put in place preventive controls to address those hazards.

Selecting the right inspection and detection equipment for snack and bakery operations

Refinements to inspection and detection equipment boost production safety and quality.

Neal Lorenzi

January 15, 2018

Greater product variety and increasing consumer attention to quality are among key factors driving snack producers and bakeries to update their inspection and detection equipment with models that, among other features, detect ever-smaller foreign objects and reduce false rejects.

Detection devices are strong preventative tools, but do not eliminate all incidents of foreign-object contamination

Foreign-object contamination: Under the radar

Despite the advances in X-ray and metal detection systems, keeping meat and poultry totally free of foreign objects remains an ongoing processor challenge.