Food manufacturers have two lines of defense against foreign object contamination – metal detectors and x-ray inspection systems. Which one will work best for your products? Click here to download Thermo Fischer Scientific’s FREE eBook.
If your facility has had a checkweigher(s) in place for awhile, you might want to do some investigation to see if it has kept up with the times. Your plant has probably undergone many changes over the years…in equipment, labour, even the type of products and packaging that are being processed. It might be time to take a second look at your checkweighing equipment and see if it is doing today’s job. And if you don’t have a checkweigher, it might be time you get one. Click here for more info.
Setting up your checkweigher to achieve optimum performance isn’t a luxury – it is critical to meeting your production obligations. This means knowing the signs of when and where you need to take action – and what action to take quickly and effectively to get back in the zone of peak operation. Minimize give-away while making sure all your products meet labeled weight and nutritional information. Click here to read the 10 Tips for Top Checkweigher Performance.
With significant food safety costs and penalties, processors will be relying more than ever before on the latest quality control methodologies and equipment to keep the food supply safe. Metal detection and x-ray inspection traditionally have been the first line of defence to identify the presence of foreign contaminants in food products before they have the chance to leave the processing plant. Click here to read more about metal detection vs. x-ray inspection.