Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 22 2019 | Page 58

Prevent foreign body contamination and recalls with fully detectable products Physical contaminants, if left undetected, Detectamet’s products are made from a can damage equipment and cause unique polymer that contains the highest injury, even death. If they reach the end level of detectable additive available on consumer there will be expensive recalls, the market, without compromising on costly legislative fines and serious harm durability. This plastic is manufactured to brand reputation. from EU & FDA (Food & Drug After inspection equipment, the next step in prevention is to use metal and Administration) food contact approved materials. Another consideration when choosing detectable products is its ability to be X-Ray detectable products in processing The colour of these products is important, sterilised to the high temperatures areas. This covers a broad spectrum and with blue long being used to stand out demanded by autoclaving to remove any includes, amongst many, pens, clipboards, visually on a production line. bacteria etc. However, with the increased risk from Detectamet offer the widest range of cross contamination of potentially detectable products for the food safety life-threatening allergens, it’s prudent, industry available on the market and through a HACCP plan, to use other highly is continually developing new and Fundamentally, anything used in food visible colours to prevent this risk, and innovative solutions as the market processing areas that presents an Detectamet offer many products in nine continues to grow worldwide. For more inherent risk, a detectable version should vibrant colours. details visit www.detectamet.com or staplers, scissors, mixing and handling equipment, knives, food temperature probes, cleaning equipment, PPE and engineering materials. be used. email [email protected], +44 1759 304200 58 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk