Exposing recent improvements in X-Ray inspection for food inspection
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The tide has turned. With heavyweight big-box grocery retailers now demanding that packaged food producers utilize X-ray for inspection of product, the switch to X-ray over metal detection for physical contamination has become more a question of “when” rather than “if.”
By now, most food producers recognize the advantages that X-ray inspection offers over aging technology like metal detectors and optical scanners. The list is extensive, but leads with the fact that X-ray equipment readily identifies stainless steel—the most common metal used in food processing equipment. X-ray also spots nonmetallic objects such as bones, stones, glass and even sugar conglomerates. X-rays can even “see” through metalized packaging, and work around other obstacles such as metal retaining clips without degrading the ability to find unwanted foreign objects.