X-ray system for bulk food inspection

Mettler Toledo Safeline’s X-ray inspection systems for bulk foods are designed for quality assurance in a wide range of industries including meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, snacks and confectionery. Typical applications include flow-through food product inspection to ensure quality before they are packaged for distribution or added to other ingredients in further stages of processing.

Bulk food X-ray inspection systems designed specifically for the detection of physical impurities such as glass, metals, mineral rocks, high-density plastics and calcified bones, regardless of shape , their size or position in the product. Impurities are easier to detect in flow-through foods than in final packaged products because they are usually inspected through a uniform product layer. This means that the depth of bulk food product inspected is much smaller than in the final packaging.

The uniform layer of bulk food products is achieved by a combination of trough conveyors and adjustable leveling plates, which maintain a uniform depth of product, for optimum efficiency when inspecting. bulk food inspection. This provides outstanding detection sensitivity. The high throughput capability means that the X-ray inspection system can operate at high speeds, maintaining the required level of productivity.

Consideration should be given to the placement of X-ray equipment for bulk products on the production line. When installed early in the process, the system can inspect incoming goods or raw materials to remove impurities at the source and quickly trace back to suppliers. It also means that physical impurities are removed before adding value to the product, resulting in cost savings.