FOREIGN MATTER DETECTION
FOREIGN MATTER DETECTION
KEY TO PROTECTING
CONSUMERS AND BRAND
Product recalls and food contamination scandals can bring a company to its knees in
no time. For this reason, many companies choose to invest in the latest technology to
ensure they produce the highest quality products.
Foreign matter detection
technology comes in
many different forms
each with different
purposes and varying
costs.
The garden variety foreign matter
detection, popular among almost
all food manufacturers, is the metal
detector.
Heat and Control sales and
operations manager Scott
Burrows says metal detectors
with multispectrum technology
tend to outperform other older
technologies on difficult or
conductive product.
“While this is not new technology,
having been out for a few years
now, multispectrum systems are
leading this area and others are still
a long way behind.”
Not only is this technology
affordable for entry level
businesses, some supermarket
chains require all their suppliers to
have a metal detector in their line
to be allowed to supply to them,”
Burrows says.
The next level up in the foreign
matter detection chain is X-ray
inspection technology.
28 JUNE 2020