The word “recall’ in reference to meat or poultry products might lead to the presumption that the incident involved presence of a foodborne pathogen. In 2022, there were 42 recalls of U.S. Department of Agriculture-regulated products, nine of which involved contamination with foreign materials. For the first three months of 2023, only one of the 11 recalls involved foreign material.
Marco Azzaretti, director of marketing at Key Technology, discusses the company’s integrated hyperspectral sorting system for bacon bits, which can virtually eliminate the need for manual inspection.