Marinades and condiments manufacturer integrated an Eagle x-ray inspection system which has proven to be the optimal solution to overcome challenges associated with inspecting glass jars with metal lids, enhancing the quality of its products while providing additional security.
Mariani Packing Company established critical control points (CCP) in its five processing facilities. This case study explores those CCPs, how they were found, established, and the benefits they provide.
This case study explores Cottage Bakery's efforts to safeguard its products from metals, such as brass and stainless steel, that can contaminate food during production.
In this case study, a mushroom farm looked for a proper solution to isolate metal fragments in its processing stage while the mushrooms are being sliced before packaging.
Implementing food metal detection technology with Rare Earth Magnets played a critical role in meeting safety guidelines at Hershey’s Chocolate World attraction.
This case study explains how Old Mansion Foods - a spice, seasoning, and dry mix manufacturer - uses metal detection to keep its products contaminant free and consumers safe.
This article provides insight into physical contaminant detection and explains why X-Ray technology is an excellent solution for eliminating physical contaminant concerns.
Incidents of physical contaminants in food can have a detrimental impact on brand reputation. This white paper explains different types of physical contamination in food and how to prevent them.
This guide explains the concept of metal detector sensitivity, key factors that impact it, and why a small difference in spherical sensitivity performance can mean a big difference in contaminants detected.
Food manufacturers rely on magnetic separation equipment to reduce foreign object contamination. This article offers guidelines when field testing magnetic strength for the most accurate results.
Glass is often the preferred packaging material for food manufacturers. However, checking for foreign bodies in a finished pack is critical, as just one glass shard can have catastrophic consequences.
The white paper explains the importance of identifying foreign body contaminants in food and can be used as a checklist to evaluate the various metal detectors and x-ray inspection systems on the market.
Grate in Housing cleaning is reduced to a simple push-pull operation with Eriez Easy to Clean Tramp Iron Grate in Housings. The ETC incorporate the same Erium™ Ceramic or Rare Earth magnet material to remove ferrous contamination from free flowing products as it cascades through multiple grate rows combined with a simple push-pull cleaning operation.
Eriez' NEW Series FS Magnet Load Monitor patrols the magnetic field of suspended electromagnets for accumulation of ferrous contamination
SANICON is a high performance metal detection system that includes attention to Food Safety within the Sanitary design. SANICON metal detection systems detect all magnetic and non-magnetic metal contaminants (steel, stainless steel, aluminium etc ), even those which may be contained in the product.
Tuf-Trac automatically moves ferrous materials such as chips, turnings and small parts in virtually any direction.
Metal detector for installation in pipeline systems, e.g. for free-fall applications, pneumatic conveyor lines, material columns that are slowly moving down, or pump feed lines. The metal detector is used for the inspection of bulk materials, fibres, or liquid/pasty products.
Mettler-Toledo Safeline’s new range of HDS Pipeline Metal Detectors is developed specifically for use on vacuum filling lines for detection sensitivity and stability, as well as user-friendly operation in potentially harsh or extreme working environments.
Determining your facility’s risks is the first step to preventing product contamination. However, once risk is determined, an assessment should be completed to determine the areas where the most foreign materials can enter a food manufacturing or processing line. This podcast offers insight to limiting your food making facility’s risk factors of foreign body contamination.
During an interview at PACK EXPO 2014, Rob Tiernay, Director of Sales for North America at Anritsu Industrial Solutions USA, discussed with Todd and Todd what to consider when choosing technology for contamination detection.
In an interview at 2014’s PACK EXPO, Viggo Nielsen, General Manager at Mettler Toledo Safeline, took time to speak with Todd Schnick and Todd Youngblood about the effects FSMA regulations are having on food packaging and inspection.
In an interview at PACK EXPO, Keith Rhodes, President, Magnetic Products, Inc., discusses the impact of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and what manufacturers can do to improve food quality and safety.
