While food safety efforts to prevent microbial contamination of product are top of mind for every meat and poultry processor and product handler, the related production consideration of preventing foreign materials introduction is equally important. Although foreign materials contamination of food products does not pose the same threat for contamination as a microbial threat such as Salmonella, X-ray and metal detection systems are essential components of industry food safety plans. There also is growing processor interest in and use of vision systems for foreign material detection and quality control.