Food Safety

Tyson Foods Suspending Operations at Iowa Plant

Company plans to indefinitely suspend operations at Waterloo, Iowa pork plant due to COVID-19 concerns.

April 21, 2020

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Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Good Foods Manages Production Fluctuations during COVID-19 Pandemic

As a result of COVID-19, Good Foods has added face shields and masks, reconstructed traffic patterns to limit exposure, added an hour between shifts, and placed floor markings to further adhere to social distancing.

April 15, 2020

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Tyson Foods Installs Walk-Through Temperature Scanners

The company is installing more than 150 infrared temperature scanners in its production facilities in response to COVID-19.

April 14, 2020

Food Safety

Coronavirus Testing for U.S. Food Plant Workers May Be Offered

Program under consideration by Trump administration due to COVID-19 outbreaks at food manufacturing facilities

April 10, 2020

Inspection

Duravant Acquires WECO

Moves into new markets with equipment and software solutions that are complementary to current offerings

March 26, 2020

Food Safety

FDA Releases Action Plan to Advance the Safety of Leafy Greens

Agency announces ways it will work to prevent and respond to STEC outbreaks in a commodity that has been “too often implicated” in cases of foodborne illness

March 6, 2020

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Candy processor falls for an optical sorter

Swizzels Matlow ditches manual sorting in favor of an automated optical sorter that quickly and accurately inspects product during free fall.

October 10, 2019

Food Ingredients

Produce Company Sticks with Proven Metal Detectors for New Plant

Happy with the metal detectors at its first two plants, F&S Produce installs six additional ones at its new plant that provide dependability, washdown capability, and high sensitivity to metal contaminants.

October 4, 2019

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Unit for quality control applications

Vision sensor provides cost-efficient, reliable performance

September 25, 2019

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Finding Defects, Color Variations in Plastic Bottles

The Pilot Vision+ in-blowmolder inspection system from Agr International tackles challenges from increased levels of recycled PET.

September 24, 2019

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Inspection Technology Offers In-Depth Seal Analysis

PTI's Seal-Scan uses airborne ultrasonic technology to analyze seal defects of pouches and flexible packaging in seconds.

September 24, 2019

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Cap Sealing Ensured with Dual Profiling Inspection System

Silgan system uses dual lasers to scan the surface of the cap on a food or beverage package to determine proper cap sealing.

September 24, 2019

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Multiaperture Metal Detector Delivers Accuracy, Sensitivity

A single metal detector is mounted across multiple processing and packaging lines with a single aperture dedicated to each line.

September 24, 2019