Food can become contaminated in many different ways, which means inspections need to be ongoing. But with Sapphire x-ray inspections will ensure your products are safe.

How Sapphire X-Ray Inspections Can Prevent Contamination in the Food and Drink Industry

There are any number of foreign objects that can get into food and beverages during processing. Metal, plastic, glass, rubber, bones, and stones, to name a few.

These can contaminate food during processing in several different ways without being detected. Sapphire x-rays will detect them. X-rays can save money and your reputation.

Product Recall

The last thing your company needs is a nationwide recall. This is not only extremely expensive but the damage to your brand can be devastating. Not only do you pay to recall the product, but you also stand to lose millions when people stop buying your product.

If there are incidents beyond the contamination, like lawsuits or people trying to press charges, it can be almost impossible to come out of it on top. Other consumers will side with the injured part.

Quality Assurance

Sapphire x-ray inspections can also detect the quality of the product. One scan can find problems like broken pieces or damaged packaging, missing items, fill levels, and checking that the product is sealed properly.

This saves a lot of time and money if you are having to do this manually. Too many smaller concerns can and do get missed. It鈥檚 impossible to know what is going on inside the packages once they are sealed.

Protecting the Consumer

Consumers finding contaminants or foreign objects in their food or drinks is bad enough, but it is worse if someone gets sick or injured. People can get cut or injured from things in the food, like glass or metal.

People may also get sick or have an allergic reaction to something that should not be in the product. This can quite often mean a lawsuit or having to pay out damages. It will also hurt your reputation.

Meet Regulatory Standards

Why take chances? If there is a problem or something questionable regarding one of your products, you can have the assurance you took all the necessary steps to ensure your products were inspected thoroughly before they left the plant.

Frivolous lawsuits may not go anywhere, but they are still a costly nuisance. With Sapphire x-ray inspections, you can be sure your product was completely up to code before it went to market.

Customer Retention

Your customers need to be able to trust that the product they are buying and consuming is safe. Competition can be brutal in the food and beverage industry.

Loyal customers mean returning customers. You want them to keep coming back to the products they love. Let them know you use all the advanced technology to ensure the products they are consuming are safe.

Sapphire X-Ray Inspections

If you are looking at stepping up your production lines, the addition of any of our machines will be an asset to your company. Save money and time and do a complete inspection every time.

Sapphire Inspection Systems have developed sophisticated, multi-use machines for hundreds of categories worldwide. Select your industry type below to discover how we help create safer products for your sector.

There are plenty of reasons for using plate freezing. Plate freezing reduces physical handling of food during processing and preserves product texture, taste, and nutritional value. Freezing the product at its peak freshness ensures the end user gets the highest quality product experience possible.

1. Horizontal Plate Freezers

Horizontal plate freezers are a manually loaded batch style freezer using layers of aluminum plates with refrigerant flowing through them. Product in trays or boxes is placed in between the plate layers.聽 After fully loading the freezer, the freezer plates are lowered until they make contact with the top of the product putting a slight bit of pressure on the product to have full contact. The full contact ensures the most efficient method of transferring heat from the product to the refrigerant.

2. Automatic Plate Freezers

Automatic horizontal plate freezers are the big brother of the standard horizontal plate freezer. The automatic plate freezer is a first in/first out style of freezer that conveys the product either in trays or boxes to the freezer and distributes the product to the correct plate opening. As the freezer is loading product by a pusher the frozen product is being pushed out the other side. The frozen product is then conveyed to the packaging line for final packaging or to palletizing.

Automatic plate freezers eliminate the need for labor to load and unload the freezer, speeding up the process and increasing overall capacity. They can use all of the standard refrigerants that a standard horizontal plate freezer can use.

3. Standard Vertical Plate Freezer

Carsoe vertical plate freezers are built to deliver high product quality at the lowest possible cost. Large capacity, good ergonomics, and an easy-to-clean design, all make these machines popular plate freezing solutions.

Vertical plate freezers are typically used for freezing product that will be packaged or palletized after the freezing process. The product is filled directly into the vertical pockets where the product comes into direct contact with the freezing plates. Direct contact has the highest rate of heat transfer and is proven to be the most efficient way to freeze.

4. Flat Top Style Vertical Plate Freezer

The new generation of flat top freezer is designed to be the most hygienic vertical freezer on the market. With its all-stainless frame, no other standard flat top is as hygienic.

Similar to the standard vertical freezer, product is loaded into the top of the freezer into freezing stations. The freezing station can be one large block or can be fixed with permanent dividers to make multiple blocks per station.

The Flat top freezer is the easiest freezer to automate and to clean. These two factors make it the most productive vertical freezer in our lineup.

Plate Freezing Solutions

Whether you need a single machine or many, Scan 果冻传媒鈥檚 line of Carsoe products can supply a freezer to suite your application. Each of our plate freezing systems can handle whatever it is your company is processing. People expect quality from their frozen foods and you want to deliver quality to them. The faster the freezing process, the fresher the food will be when it reaches your consumer.

Carsoe/Freezertech is the technology leader in automated plate freezing. They offer stand-alone freezing units as well as complete customized solutions. If you are interested in how you can use the latest advancements in plate freezing technology to increase efficiency and further improve your end product, contact聽Scan 果冻传媒 today.

In fact, they can be made better, thanks to advancing technology. These new innovative processing systems allow the products to retain much of their natural aromas, taste, and nutritional values.

Whether it is coffee, tea, concentrates of fruits and vegetables, or other products, these beverages are now able to remain closer to their natural state with less loss of all their properties that make them desirable in the first place.

3 Innovative Processing Solutions for the Beverage Industry

When fruits, vegetables and leaves or beans for coffee and tea are processed, they can lose a lot of flavor, color, and their natural aroma. Here are 3 innovative processing solutions that will help them remain truest to their natural state.

1. Aroma Recovery

Aroma recovery uses a new innovative processing solution to extract the essence of the product in a far gentler and more effective way. It works very well with tea, coffee, fruit pulp, and extracts or slurried products.

This technology, known as the Spinning Cone Column, can remove the parts that are needed using variable temperature steam. This process is very gentle and therefore, it preserves the natural aroma and flavor.

Because it’s natural using no chemicals, this method leaves all the nutrients, flavor and aroma that already occurs naturally. In addition, with tea, not only can it recover the tea aroma but it can also brew the tea and produce a tea extract at the same time.

2. Thin Film Evaporator

The second innovative process solution is Flavourtech鈥檚 Centritherm evaporator. This allows you to make concentrates and still maintain the properties of the product that matter.

Highly effective with products that are very heat-sensitive. It can process the products quickly but using less heat, to keep the integrity of the product intact. An ideal for the beverage industry, but has other applications, as well.

It uses centrifugal force, so the product is in contact with the heating surface for a mere one second, compared to others that may take much longer. Also, as the Centritherm evaporator operates under vacuum, it reduces the product鈥檚 boiling point so evaporation can take place at lower temperatures.

3. Integrated Extraction System

The third innovative processing solution for beverages is Flavourtech鈥檚 Integrated Extraction System. A continuous process that completely automates, which maintains product consistency throughout the run.

It allows users to produce premium aromas, extracts and concentrates for the coffee and tea market, the instant coffee industry and for the fragrance and flavor industry.

It enables less loss of flavor and aroma by capturing them at their peak quality during processing. The system is a completely turnkey solution from input of raw materials through a creation of full flavor concentrates. This makes the entire process much quicker and far more efficient.

Innovative Processing Solutions

The way our beverages smell and taste, as well as how they look, have a huge bearing on whether or not we will enjoy them. We have all walk past a coffee shop and entice simply because of the aroma.

Flavourtech is a global technology manufacturer specializing in aroma recovery, extraction and evaporation solutions for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.

If you have the opportunity to improve your ready-to-drink products, why wouldn鈥檛 you? Check out our website or contact us for more information about improving your beverages with our innovative processing systems today.

If you are a company that processes beverages and are interested in these processing solutions, or how you can improve your food and beverage processing in general, contact Scan 果冻传媒 today.

is a heating and drying process that can dry food very quickly after it is made. It can also be used to thaw frozen foods.聽 Unlike usual techniques that transfer the heat through the surface from an outside heat source, a radio frequency field generates heat directly inside the entire product itself.

Radio Frequency Technology and Food

Fresh foods, such as vegetables, fruits, and certain kinds of fish contain a lot of water and are highly heat-sensitive. Preserving these types of food often uses thermal processing to extend their shelf-life.

It also avoids the use of chemicals, which can stay in the food and one of the most efficient, safe ways of heating food.

The application of this technology to fresh foods is growing in popularity because it is fast, costs less, and provides deep thermal penetration. There is even the possibility of better quality control.

It can be used with all fresh food processing, including cooking, microorganism reduction, disinfestation, thawing, and blanching. It tends to make foods more healthy because it happens very quickly and to the entire item at once, not in sections.

The best-known use of radio frequency technology in the food industry is for freshly baked items. Examples of this are using the technology to dry biscuits, crackers, breakfast cereals, and other items that need to be packaged quickly to preserve freshness.

There are other uses for radio frequency technology heating methods, such as using the technology to defrost frozen fish, meat, vegetables and other raw or processed foods.

Benefits

One of the biggest benefits is the efficiency of the process and how quickly it can be done. The exact amount of heat that is required is developed instantly inside the product, regardless of its density, size, or thermal conductivity, without losing anything to the environment.

This makes food much safer because it sanitizes the product while it dries it. It can also stabilize and inactivate bacteria that may be found naturally in certain foods, like liquid items, baked goods, and items containing raw eggs.

The heating and drying process can help pasteurization and sterilize many items that can become contaminated quickly while they are waiting to be packaged.

The same radio frequency technology is used for thawing, softening, and defrosting certain items needed for food production. This is particularly beneficial for thawing things like butter needed for baking, meats, and large batches of frozen vegetables.

While certain foods don鈥檛 need to be completely dried out, like dried fruit, there are some, like legumes that do. Certain foods react differently to radio frequency technology, and it will work much better for some over others.

The process is similar to that of a microwave. While there are certainly great breakthroughs being made, the field is still a work-in-progress. But the results are making food much healthier and safer.

The speed of radio frequency technology means foods can be processed faster from their original point of freshness. Another great benefit is that it is eco-friendly technology and energy-efficient.

More and more, radio frequency technology is stepping in to replace other conventional methods of food preparation and processing. It can work faster and more completely using less energy.

Because radio frequency technology can get deep into the product. It keeps the product fresher, and the food maintains a fresher look and quality.

If you are a company that processes food and uses radio frequency technology, or if you are interested in using it at your facility. Contact Scan 果冻传媒 today to learn more about how this technology can increase efficiency and food safety for your company.