A food manufacturer has decided to invest in X-ray inspection technology to help support increased emphasis in the company’s product checking processes.
Brighter Foods has the capacity to make over a million bars a day for brand partners in categories including slimming, sport and organic. The firm had relied on Loma Systems’ metal detectors to provide contamination detection, however, to comply with code of practice (COP) stipulations, a growing number of customers needed greater checks through the use of X-ray inspection.
The company approached Loma and, following a full audit of Brighter Foods’ current operation, Loma recommended an X5C compact, which checks for a range of contaminants from metal to hard plastics. Using an air blast reject system to detect and remove contaminated products, the system is described by Loma as being ‘perfect’ for convenience food, ready meals and small packaged goods.
The machine can also analyse product integrity, including counting the number of bars within the pack, checking the volume per bar, and ensuring the product is undamaged.
David John, Brighter Foods’ engineering manager said, “Loma Systems’ X5C X-ray solution gives us total peace of mind as I now know within each pack we ship there are the correct number of bars, the correct volume and all product is checked for any possible contaminants.”
