Food manufacturers supplying packaged products to retailers can now use the latest metal detection technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific to meet the “gold standard” requirements set by Marks & Spencer, a leading UK retailer, one of the toughest food safety codes of practice for foreign object detection.
The codes of practice typically specify which type of foreign object detection system should be used, how it must function to ensure rejected products are removed from production and how the systems should “fail” safely under all conditions. The codes also dictate how results should be audited, which records must be kept and the desired sensitivity for various metal detector apertures sizes.