X-ray technology helps leading meat processor to balance food safety and product integrity

Key UK manufacturing site | 8 processing lines

Challenge

• Ageing mix of metal detectors and checkweighers
• Not suitable to detect soft contaminants such as bones
• Desire to reduce line footprint

Solution

• 8 X5 Space Saver X-ray
• Detection down to 0.4mm for metal contaminants
• Detection down 0.8mm to 1.6mm for other contaminants

Outcome

• Switch from metal detection to X-ray means wider contaminant detection capability
• Throughput of 100 packs/min while meeting quality and Code of Practice requirements
• Pack component weight and volume integrity checks now operate within a 3g tolerance