X-ray Inspection for Single-Pack Products
Mettler Toledo, +1 800.638.8537
Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has launched a new X -ray inspection system, the X34C, which is designed specifically for the detection of contaminants in small, individual packaged products at high speeds. The system has a footprint of just 700 mm in length, which includes an integrated reject, meaning that the X34C can be installed into production lines where space is at a premium. It can operate at 120 meters per minute, making it possible to keep product inspection aligned with many high-speed flow-wrapping machines and pack sealers used in the confectionery sector for packing individual products. Also, the optimized focal distance of the 0.4-mm diode detector and 100-W Optimum Power Generator maximizes the probability of detecting small contaminants and helps reduce the false reject rate. The X34C can be configured to meet customer requirements, including with an air blast reject system to remove contaminated products at high speed.
mt.com
Squadle Digital Food Safety for Aloha Poke Co.
Squadle, +1 877.727.1352
Squadle, a workflow automation company that enables multi-unit operators to simplify complex operations and streamline food safety, announced that Aloha Poke Co., a fast-casual poke restaurant concept, is deploying Squadle Food Safety in nine of its company-owned restaurants across the upper Midwest. Squadle will ensure that Aloha Poke maintains operational consistency across all of its stores, with focus on ensuring the highest level of food safety standards as the brand continues to expand nationwide. Squadle Digital Food Safety gives Aloha Poke a quick and easy way to gain visibility into store performance. Squadle also provides accountability, especially when multi-unit managers are not present at locations. Digital workflows and automation, Bluetooth pyrometers, and documented corrective actions deliver an extra level of food safety through an intuitive user interface.
www.squadle.com
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Complete X-ray Inspection Solutions Family
Sesotec, +1 224.208.1354
Sesotec GmbH's RAYCON product family now offers X-ray inspection solutions for all applications in the food industry. Each model in the product portfolio is designed with the others in mind and great attention to detail. With an array of equipment ranging from entry-level to standard to high-end, this X-ray inspection technology ensures the reliable detection in food products of foreign bodies such as metals, bones, stones, plastics, glass fragments, ceramics, and even product defects. Innovative software features—such as the "Bone Detector," "Wirefinder," and "Glass Increaser" filters—make it possible to increase the detection accuracy for specific kinds of contaminants.
www.sesotec.com
Compact Integrated Xenon Lamp
XENON Corp., +1 978.661.9033
XENON Corp. has introduced the lowest-cost, high-energy pulsed light product to the market. The Compact Integrated Xenon Lamp (CIXL) provides everything a user needs to introduce pulsed light technology into their operations. Potential applications for the new product include the decontamination of food contact surfaces, the enhancement of food products, and the disinfection of surfaces. The CIXL features an 11-inch xenon arc lamp, diffuse reflector, and all of the electronics and cooling needed to safely generate 3Hz, 100 J/p of power, housed in a brushed stainless-steel housing with a quartz window. Factory-configured settings for pulse energy, duration, and frequency make the CIXL easy to operate, and the compact unit runs on mains power supply.
www.xenoncorp.com
Leakage Valve for ESL Foods
GEA, +1 844.432.2329
The GEA Aseptomag LV leakage valve is a mixproof, double-seat valve designed for manufacturers of foods and beverages who maintain high safety standards in their UltraClean process lines. Typical examples are products with an extended shelf life (ESL) such as soft drinks, fruit juices, and milk-based and lactic acid fermented products, along with plant-based alternatives sold chilled by retailers. Focusing on equipment flexibility, the design features significantly mitigate the risk of contamination in this hygiene class. For ESL products where completely aseptic processes are not used, the area between the two valve seats no longer needs to be designed as a sterile chamber. The new LV valve uses stainless steel bellows that block microorganisms from being drawn uncontrollably into the product chamber, which keeps the process and the product safe. With hermetically sealing valve stems, bellows valves achieve a higher hygienic standard, which makes for better product quality and a longer minimum shelf life.
www.gea.com
‘Do Not Refreeze’ Label
SpotSee, +1 800.846.2468
SpotSee has released its ‘Do Not Refreeze’ label to ensure food quality and safety throughout the supply chain and within commercial food environments. Once food has gone through a freeze/thaw cycle, the quality and/or safety of food can be compromised if it is refrozen. After placing the ‘Do Not Refreeze’ label on the packaging, if the temperature drops below –15 °C/5 °F, the text turns dark blue and alerts handlers that the product cannot be frozen again.
spotsee.io
Metal-Detectable Safety Knives
MARTOR, +49 212.738.700
The SECUMAX 150 MDP extends MARTOR’s family of metal-detectable safety knives. The knives remain detectable if lost—even the smallest parts—and, therefore, have no long-term adverse impacts on sensitive production processes. Weighing only 31 grams, the SECUMAX 150 MDP is made of plastic that is metal- and X-ray-detectable. The SECUMAX 150 MDP is also safe when cutting. Its concealed blade means that the sharp cutting edge never gets too close to either its user or the packaged goods. The outer blade area, used for scraping off labels and splitting adhesive tape, is also non-sharp.
martor.com
Cloud-Based Sorting Machine
Anysort U.S.A., +1 916.372.2227
Anysort U.S.A. is offering a new, cloud-based sorting machine with Hawk-Eye recognition technology and shape-sorting automation for in-shell walnuts and peanuts, the TK64. It is also showcasing an infrared color sorter with Hawk-Eye recognition technology for kernels of walnuts, pecans, almonds, and pistachios, the VR164+. The TK64 presents high-dimensional material fingerprint perception technology, high-definition image acquisition, and bud location analysis technology. The cloud-based VR164+ offers international advanced multi-spectral analysis technology, along with Hawk-Eye recognition technology and intelligent shape-sorting automation. The VR164+ can accurately recognize and remove plastic particles, glass, animal waste, insects, sunflower gum, and other malignant impurities.
anysortusa.us
Antimicrobial Pallets
Tessco Systems, 415.691.8740
Tessco Systems offers an antimicrobial technology in its pallets that is not a surface application coating but an intrinsic additive that is embedded throughout the pallet polymer and provides broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection that won’t rub, scratch, or wash off. Tested and proven at extreme cold and hot temperatures, these pallets help actively reduce bacteria, fungi, and yeasts by up to 99.99 percent.
www.tesscosystems.com
Stainless Steel Belts
Belt Technologies, 413.786.9922
Belt Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures solid stainless steel belts and conveyor systems that help robotic technologies perform in the grocery and warehouse sectors reliably and efficiently. Their high tensile strength makes them exceptionally resilient and helps prevent jams in robotic automation and dependably perform tasks that demand rapid acceleration, precise positioning, and repetition. Steel belts also do not stretch or elongate and can withstand extreme environments. They are also sanitary and easy to clean, making them ideal for use in the warehouse and grocery sectors, where hygiene is a critical issue.
www.belttechnologies.com
Sensitive, Rapid Gluten Test
Hygiena, 888.494.4362
Hygiena has announced the release of GlutenTox ELISA Rapid G12, an improved test for the most immunotoxic peptide in gluten. The test provides more accurate results in less time than either previous versions or competitors’ ELISA tests for gluten and offers fast, convenient, and accurate measurement of gluten down to 0.6 ppm (0.3 ppm of gliadin).
www.hygiena.com
Line Inspection Magnet
Industrial Magnetics, 888.582.0821
Industrial Magnetics Inc. recently introduced the Spout Line Inspection Magnet (SLIM™) for processors who require simple and frequent sampling of the product stream at designated inspection points on the line. Intended for use with a comprehensive foreign contamination-detection program, the SLIM inspection magnets can be strategically placed at multiple locations throughout the process stream, such as discharge points of mixers, sifters, and screws, to help pinpoint the origin of any ferrous metal contamination.
www.magnetics.com
Legal Phyto-Cannabinoid Ingredient
NaturArk, 201.301.7108
NaturArk, a supplier of scientifically studied and validated ingredients for the human nutrition and food and beverage industries, has announced the launch of its Endophyllene® phyto-cannabinoid ingredient. A natural endo-cannabinoid agonist of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor, Endophyllene delivers a high concentration of the natural compound beta-caryophyllene. It is available as a highly purified black pepper extract in two forms: a powdered extract containing 30 percent beta-caryophyllene, which is ideal for tablets, capsules, and sachets, and an oil-based extract containing 80 percent beta-caryophyllene, which is well-suited as a straight drop in soft-gelatin capsules or liquid formulations.
www.NaturArk.com
Molecular Pathogen Detection
SnapDNA, 443.625.8166
SnapDNA has announced the first culture-independent, rapid pathogen-analysis platform. TrueRapid™ detects only live cells and works with standard, industry-accepted environmental samples collected from all surfaces. It provides quantitative results with a total time-to-results of 20 minutes with less than 5 minutes of hands-on time. The platform is designed to be used on-site by minimally trained personnel and without additional equipment or specialized facilities.
www.snapdna.com
Foaming Cleaner
Madison Chemical, 812.273.6000
Madison Chemical has introduced DART 444, a chlorinated, moderately alkaline detergent designed as a one-package, general-purpose foaming cleaner that performs well in most water conditions. When used in a “foam generator,” it produces a thick, stable, wet foam without dry-out or runoff. It is ideal for cleaning vertical, overhead surfaces, especially machinery surfaces that are difficult to clean by any other methods. It rinses easily and without streaking and is acceptable for use in food and beverage plants as an A1 general cleaning agent on all surfaces, or with steam or mechanical cleaning in all departments. It is proven effective in food and beverage processing facilities, specifically dough mixers, mixing tanks, and conveyor lines.
www.MadChem.com
Antimicrobial Pallets
Tessco Systems, 415.691.8740
Tessco Systems offers an antimicrobial technology in its pallets that is not a surface application coating but an intrinsic additive that is embedded throughout the pallet polymer and provides broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection that won’t rub, scratch, or wash off. Tested and proven at extreme cold and hot temperatures, these pallets help actively reduce bacteria, fungi, and yeasts by up to 99.99 percent.
www.tesscosystems.com
Stainless Steel Belts
Belt Technologies, 413.786.9922
Belt Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures solid stainless steel belts and conveyor systems that help robotic technologies perform in the grocery and warehouse sectors reliably and efficiently. Their high tensile strength makes them exceptionally resilient and helps prevent jams in robotic automation and dependably perform tasks that demand rapid acceleration, precise positioning, and repetition. Steel belts also do not stretch or elongate and can withstand extreme environments. They are also sanitary and easy to clean, making them ideal for use in the warehouse and grocery sectors, where hygiene is a critical issue.
www.belttechnologies.com
Antimicrobial Seals
Cambridge Security Seals, 845.520.4111
Cambridge Security Seals has announced its new line of A-MVB™ antimicrobial, antiviral, and antibacterial seals, which utilize a proprietary blend of resins and additives that repel and deactivate any infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, molds, or other microbes that can exist on the surface of a standard plastic seal. The ionic silver-based formula reduces the chance of disease transmission. The seals provide food and agriculture businesses and other industries that use tamper-evident and high-security plastic seals with an additional safety measure for their employees by eliminating the need to disinfect and clean the product.
www.cambridgeseals.com
Sensitive, Rapid Gluten Test
Hygiena, 888.494.4362
Hygiena has announced the release of GlutenTox ELISA Rapid G12, an improved test for the most immunotoxic peptide in gluten. The test provides more accurate results in less time than either previous versions or competitors’ ELISA tests for gluten and offers fast, convenient, and accurate measurement of gluten down to 0.6 ppm (0.3 ppm of gliadin).