X-Ray Inspection Ensures Quality For Bustling Bakery

For nearly 20 years, City Baking Corporation depended on food metal detection technology to alert its quality control associates about irregularities and foreign body contaminants in its food products. However, the company recently switched out its metal detection equipment for X-ray inspection. By doing so, City Baking Corporation exceeded its own rigorous quality standards, as well as those of federal food safety regulators.

When second-generation pastry chef Fernando Lopez and 20-year veteran baker Barry Blaine opened City Baking Corporation in 1995, their shared philosophy was a recipe for near-instant success. Only the finest, freshest ingredients would go into their brownies, cakes, pastries, and cookies. It’s that consistent focus on quality that won the palates of discriminating businesses like Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Aramark, Compass Group, Sodexo, and a host of hospital and university clients that contribute to the bakery’s $2.3 million annual sales. Blaine and Lopez eschew artificial ingredients — they bake without the aid of preservatives and additives — and for goodness sake, you won’t find any metal or other foreign objects in the confections shipped from City Baking.

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