The latest X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing, and vision systems feature multi-scanning capabilities, machine connectivity, and improved operator learning tools. These upgrades allow the equipment to better detect small foreign objects, reduce false rejects, and handle a wide range of products to ensure maximum food safety. Bakery and snack producers use inspection and detection equipment to improve their quality control and food safety programs.
Greater product variety and consumer attention to quality and safety are key factors driving the development of inspection and detection equipment. Meeting these changing demands has prompted Bunting, Newton, KS, to design its triple-frequency metal detector, which allows the operator to process a wide range of items. “For example, the machine allows you to switch from processing fresh items to frozen items at the push of a button. It also features automatic product learning and stores settings for up to 500 products,” says Barry Voorhees, metal detection product manager.