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significant impact on outcomes. accounting for 3.5%of this share .


The readymeal and chilled product sectors alone generate 12%of global food waste, with po or quality production including under- or ove -r packing 3 A checkweighing feature provides the


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that oper iat ves can see up ot 200 packs p erminute travelling through t eh s sy tem, na d halt the production li ne easi ly if t hey need to. T he systems also offer fully traceable paperlessmachine testing auditits.


W ih ch tec nh ology is best suit ed to a particular operation will depend large yl on the resu ltlts of a food safety audit and the types of contaminants xpected to encount re . Ifmet la is t he only concern, a


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In the raw ingredient phase, food is exposed to different processes increasing the risk of foreign fragments entering the supplyforeign fragments entering the supply chain. Sparc anticipates that the market will witness a growth in companies adopting combination x-ray and metal detection systems to ensure


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Solutions such as Sparc’s Cerberus Checkw ie gher provides scales and metal detection in one space-saving unit. Combination units can reject items containingmet al contaminants, ni specting the lab el and reducing o waste by up to 55%.


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