Meeting FSMA's Demands: How End-Of-Line Inspection Equipment Ensures Compliance

By Viggo Nielsen, General Manager, Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Inc.

The inspection systems your company chooses can not only help your company become, and remain, compliant with regulations, they can also reduce risk and lower total operating costs.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January, 2011. The legislation places the responsibility of food safety squarely on food producers with regulations that will come into force as all portions of FSMA are finalized and implemented. FSMA also gives the FDA expanded authority in requiring recalls, which the agency has already used on numerous occasions.

Among the critical methods that food companies can apply to comply with FSMA’s requirements is systematic, machine-based inspection of products and packages. These are used to detect and reject contaminated or otherwise non-compliant products or packaging, while maintaining accurate, complete records of those actions.

The Role Of Automated Inspection Systems

Once a HACCP-based safety regimen is established, it is automated-inspection systems that most-effectively provide the means to control both contamination and other safety issues. They also ensure overall product and package quality and document the process and results.

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