QUALITY CONTROL
Fortress Technology can offer a range of combination systems combining checkweighing with inspection equipment.
Technology
Suzanne Callander reports on typical confectionery product inspection challenges and looks at the technologies and solutions that are available today to help ensure product consistency and safety.
A
s confectionery manufacturers will already know, behind the simple pleasures of a chocolate bar, a handful of fruit gummies
or a pack of chewing gum, is a complex, high- tech production chain that needs to adhere to stringent global quality control safety standards. This challenge is compounded by the nature of confectionery production, with
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products varying widely in shape, texture, density, and packaging format, which can create difficulties for inspection systems. To ensure compliance most confectionery
production lines today will use a combination of metal detection, checkweighing, X-ray and vision systems at end-of-line checkpoints to identify and remove potentially contaminated products and verify labels.
Phil Brown, Sales Director at Fortress
Technology Europe, believes that flexible inspection technologies offer a good solution to bridge the divide between efficiency and consistency and to meet evolving regulatory demands. He
said: “The adoption of
compact combination ‘all-in-one’ inspection configurations is a forward-thinking strategy that will enable confectionery manufacturers
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