Extended Applications Of X-Ray Inspection System Across Industries

Quality inspection is an indispensable element of responsible manufacturing and packing of industry products. It is imperative to maintain high quality and ensure consumer safety with food and health products. Moreover, global food safety initiative (GFSI) requirements are not limited to the food or drugs/devices themselves, but also include their packaging. Therefore, any contamination of food and health products and their associated packaging with impurities of any type could have serious consequences for a company. Manufacturers have adopted different systems for contaminant inspection to prevent such problems.

X-Ray Systems Supersede Conventional Metal Detectors

Metal detectors are most useful for the detection of magnetic and nonmagnetic metals. However, they have limitations in the inspection of aluminum-coated packing materials, whereby only metals of larger sizes are detectable in this type of packaging. 

Contaminations with glass, ceramics, stones, and similar materials also constitute a serious problem. X-Ray inspection systems have become more common for such applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries in the past 10 to 15 years. They offer an advantage over conventional metal detectors because X-Rays can detect not only a wide variety of foreign dense materials but also can-do with a much higher detection resolution.

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