A 360 View of Food Safety—From Food Processor to End User
Novel solutions for detecting product contaminants at every angle of your process
Food processors are constantly looking for ways to uncover unwanted product contaminates. Hard contaminates may cause rejects at the end-user level, missing items in their final package may lead to rework—all of which are causing food processors to invest in inspection technology for piece-of-mind, operational efficiency and brand building.
In this webinar, we will highlight some of the current challenges with food safety techniques from the technology standpoint. Leaders in food processing equipment will review contamination opportunities throughout a typical processing plant; highlight current trends in inspection equipment; and present how a novel X-Ray Detection Machine has effectively addressed the needs of one poultry processor.
SPEAKERS
John Daley
Director of Sales & Marketing, Gainco, Inc.
Christopher Young
Business Development Manager, Anritsu
Kevin W. Parnell
Plant Manager, Alatrade Foods LLC.
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X-Ray Foodsafety Enhancements for Meat and Poultry Processors 2014
1. Food Safety 360:
From Food Processor to End User
Novel solutions for detecting product contaminants
at every angle of your process
2. Goals
Identify critical inspection locations within a
production line
Compare traditional vs. current inspection
capabilities
Analyze applications and inspection successes
3. Anritsu Industrial Solutions
Subsidiary of $1B growing
electronics company
Manufactured first inspection
equipment in 1964
No. 1 supplier in Japan
Americas HQ in Chicago
Strategic alignment with Gainco
4. Gainco: The Right Answer for Meat Yields, Productivity and
Profits
Subsidiary of Bettcher Industries
Engineered solutions to improve throughputs, yields, and
profitability at poultry, red meat, and seafood processors
Strategic partnership with Anritsu facilitates complete system
solutions
• 24/7 365 Support
• Scale calibration
• Repair & Training
• Infiniti Indicators
• DuraWeigh Scales
• IP69k durability
• Proven Tough
Gainco, Inc.
7. Why Inspect With X-ray?
More consistent performance
• Fresh or frozen, wet or dry
• Not affected by humidity or other equipment
Can provide traceability
• System can auto-store images of every rejected product
• Facilitates, supports more detailed HACCP logs
Will detect more contaminates
• Bone, glass, metal, ceramic, dense plastic
Final package inspection
• Check weigh, clip detection, missing products, voids, etc.
8. What’s Driving X-ray Inspection?
Retailers demanding higher
quality
• Metal specifications are tightening
• Want to detect bone & other materials
Improvements in HAACP
standards
• Knowing what is entering your plant
• Respond to issues earlier in the process
9. What’s Driving X-ray Inspection?
Automated deboning is creating
more chips & splinters
• Greater potential for customer
complaints
• Protecting your and your customers’
brands
Potential premium for inspected
product
10. Where Can X-ray Be Applied?
Incoming product
• Trim meat or frozen blocks
• Detect bones or other contaminates
11. Where Can X-ray Be Applied?
Meat from a debone line
• Bone chips or fragments
• Fillets, tenders, legs, and thighs
12. Ground product
After initial grind, prior to blend
• Before forming or packaging
Where Can X-ray Be Applied?
14. Individual packages inspection
• Bags or trays
• Check weigh & Foreign Material Detection
• Missing clips or voids in chubs
• Piece count or orientation
Where Can X-ray Be Applied?
15. Full case inspection
• Potentially replace
multiple MD’s or
checkweighers
• Final QA inspection
is made post
secondary packaging
Where Can X-ray Be Applied?
16. Application Examples
2.0-3.0mm bones
in poultry breast
meat
One customer was
able to reduce
bone count from
over 1,200 per load
to less than 4
31. Technology
X-ray Highlights
• Excellent detection capabilities
• 2 basic product parameters:
• Density – Lighter, less dense
contaminants are harder to detect
• Thickness - Thinner product is easier
to inspect
32. Technology
Large format X-ray (case/carton)
• Excellent value proposition
• Replace multiple units with 1 larger system
• Strong metal detection capability
• Bone/Glass/Stone detection possible on
thinner products
33. Application
• Large format X-ray (case/carton)
• 17kg. Case (24”Lx15”Wx5”H) Pork
• 0.8 to 1.0mm SS Detection
• Bone/Glass detection capable
36. Application
Small format X-ray (chub inspection)
• 1# & 2# Chubs (2.5” & 3” diameter)
• Clip detection – tracked and rejected separately
• Detects clips within the product and missing clips
37. Technology
Pipeline X-ray (pumped)
• High detection capability
• Excellent for metal & bone – exceeds
customer’s requirements
• Requires a pump if not present already
• Not suitable for all products
• Easily cleaned/calibrated/tested
38. Application
Pipeline X-ray (3” pipe)
• 10,000 #/hr. Pork
• 0.5mm SS Detection
• 0.4mm diameter x 2mm long SS Wire detection
• 1.0 to 2.0mm Pork bone detection (calcified)
39. Technology
DUAL X Highlights
• Developed specifically for bone detection
• Multiple x-ray energy levels enable comparative
analysis
• The “right tool” for the job
40. Technology
DUAL X Highlights (cont.)
• Same operator interface – auto setup, easy to
use/adjust
• 2mm bone detection (poultry) capable
55. Thank You!
We appreciate the time spent together today and look
forward to working with you on your inspection projects
Anritsu Industrial Solutions
USA, Inc.
1001 Cambridge Drive
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
847-419-XRAY (9729)
www.detectionperfection.com
Gainco, Inc.
1635 Oakbrook Drive
Gainesville, GA 30507
800-467-2828
www.gainco.com