Effective food safety programs have become vital for every food producer—not just to protect consumers, but for the sake of brands and businesses in a sue-happy society.
This newly available detector technology, first proven in the poultry industry for superior bone and metal detection, captures a greater amount of information about the product being inspected.
Many processors, such as OSI Group, in Aurora, Ill., have established multiple hurdles to prevent and detect foreign material within their product streams.
Metal detection is a fairly common activity for meat and poultry processors, but more processors are moving away from using metal detection alone and using X-ray systems for broader foreign-object detection.