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A revolutionary breakthrough in metal detection technology
Food safety, brand protection and an overall commitment to ensuring consumer health are key aspects to producing a quality food product.
Food manufacturers need to ensure food safety by investing in quality control processes and technologies to achieve compliance with food and environmental regulations, decrease waste and operational costs, increase productivity and providing consumers with the safest food available.
Mettler Toledo’s range of Safeline metal detection systems provide a complete solution for packaging and processing lines in the food and beverage industry to ensure quality and safety. Applications include the weighing and inspection of wet, dry, fresh and frozen foods, as well as bulk foods and ready meals.
A SOLID PROVEN INVESTMENT
Safeline metal detection systems utilise innovative technologies designed to provide exceptional physical contaminant detection, offering a solid proven investment. Metal detectors can be integrated with existing conveyors, other process equipment and into production lines to reliably detect a contaminated product and reject it from the process flow, providing full automated in-line inspection to comply with food safety standards.
DETECTION OF SMALL METAL CONTAMINANTS
This range of Safeline metal detectors offer superior detection sensitivity to detect smaller metal contaminants when inspecting challenging applications where a product is wet, warm or cooling, have a varying moisture content or packaged in a metallised film. Reliable detection of all metal types including ferrous, nonferrous and even difficult to detect non-magnetic stainless steel.
Safeline’s Profile Advantage metal detection system delivers exceptional reliability, improved ease-of-use and minimises product waste. A breakthrough in multi-simultaneous frequency (MSF) technology and product signal suppression deliver up to 50% improved detection sensitivity to ensure brand protection, compliance, cost reduction, increased productivity and improved performance for food manufacturers.
Safeline's innovative Profile Advantage technology is the ideal solution to optimising detection sensitivity in Safeline Profile Advantage metal detector challenging applications with a high "product effect".
This is where the product itself limits the achievable size of metal found by the metal detector. In addition to being able to detect smaller metal contaminants in wet applications, this proprietary technology can also virtually eliminate false product rejects to improve productivity. With the technology, bubbles and voids in the product flow no longer have an impact on the metal detector's performance, so overcoming “product effect” is now achievable in more than just conveyorised food processing applications.
The system allows increased uptime, provides onboard overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) reporting and supports due diligence reporting with improved data, collection methods and better system integration. Predictive analytics and condition monitoring result in less frequent performance testing.
Profile Advantage metal detection supports the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA). Multi-level access control includes 21CFR Part 11 compliant login mode. •
