X-Ray Foodsafety Enhancements for Meat and Poultry Processors 2014

Food Safety 360:From Food Processor to End User

Novel solutions for detecting product contaminants at every angle of your process

Goals

Identify critical inspection locations within a production line

Compare traditional vs. current inspection capabilities

Analyze applications and inspection successes

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

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.

Detection Throughout the Plant

John Daley, Director of Sales & Marketing,

Gainco, Inc.

Why Inspect?

Source: ExpertRECALL

Improved food safetyBetter quality controlReduce the potential

of a recall

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.

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

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

Where Can X-ray Be Applied?

Incoming product• Trim meat or frozen blocks

• Detect bones or other contaminates

Where Can X-ray Be Applied?

Meat from a debone line• Bone chips or fragments

• Fillets, tenders, legs, and thighs

Ground productAfter initial grind, prior to blend

• Before forming or packaging

Where Can X-ray Be Applied?

Marinated product• Injected or tumbled – broken needles

Where Can X-ray Be Applied?

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?

Full case inspection• Potentially replace

multiple MD’s or checkweighers

• Final QA inspection is made post secondary packaging

Where Can X-ray Be Applied?

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

Bone Fragments In Tenders

Stainless Glove Links In Thighs

Packaged Nuggets With Bone

Trim, Ground, Pumped MeatPipeline X-ray Image Of Sphere & Glass

0.5 mm stainless steel sphere 2 mm glass

Case Inspection: 1.2 & 1.5mm SS Sphere

Chubb Inspection: Clips And SS

MultiView: Quality Control

MultiView: Quality Control

MultiView: Quality Control

MultiView: Quality Control

What Can Be Detected? Calcified bones –

>2.0mm thickness Metal Spheres –

0.5mm diameter stainless steel

Wire – 0.2mm diameter by 2.0mm long

Glass sphere – 1.0 to 1.5mm diameter

Ceramic – 1.0 to 1.5mm diameter

Evolving Detection Technology

Christopher Young, Business Development Manager,

Anritsu

Technology

Conventional (traditional) metal detectors vs. X-ray

Technology

Conventional (traditional) metal detectors• Established industry standard with

wide usage and low initial cost

• Metal only detection

• Strongly affected by application and metal type

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

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

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

Application

Large format X-ray (case/carton)• 5# Bag (13”Lx15”Wx3”H) Par Fried

Nuggets• 0.8mm SS Detection

Application

Small format X-ray (chub inspection)• 1# & 2# Chubs (2.5” & 3” diameter)

• 0.7mm SS Detection

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

TechnologyPipeline 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

ApplicationPipeline 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)

TechnologyDUAL X Highlights

• Developed specifically for bone detection

• Multiple x-ray energy levels enable comparative analysis

• The “right tool” for the job

Technology

DUAL X Highlights (cont.)• Same operator interface – auto setup, easy to

use/adjust

• 2mm bone detection (poultry) capable

Comparison

DUAL X vs. traditional X-ray• Poultry breast – 40mm thickness

ComparisonDUAL X vs. traditional X-ray

• Poultry breast – 40mm thickness

Comparison

DUAL X vs. traditional X-ray• Poultry breast – 40mm thickness

Comparison

DUAL X vs. traditional X-ray• Poultry breast – 60mm thickness

Comparison

DUAL X vs. traditional X-ray• Poultry breast – 60mm thickness

Application

Bulk Beef (3” thickness)• 8,000 #/hr. Beef

• 0.8mm SS Detection

• 3.0mm Glass detection

• 3.0mm Bone detection (calcified)

Detection360

Solutions based on quality requirements and installation locations

Custom mapped solutions specific to yourapplication

Case Study

Kevin Parnell, Plant Manager, Albertville, Ala.

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Questions?

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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 DriveElk Grove Village, IL 60007847-419-XRAY (9729)www.detectionperfection.com

Gainco, Inc.1635 Oakbrook DriveGainesville, GA 30507800-467-2828www.gainco.com