Food safety – a matter of weight
Food safety begins with accurate weight recording and by no means ends there. In everyday practice, weighing systems play a key role in ensuring product quality in food production, complying with legal requirements and avoiding product recalls. The Minebea Intec MiNexx ® portfolio has been specially developed to meet these requirements: It includes bench and floor scales as well as powerful weight indicators that reliably evaluate complete systems such as silo, hopper or truck scales.
Too high a salt content in readymade soup, an incorrectly dosed allergen ingredient in a snack product or insufficiently filled packaging in the hands of the
48 FDPP- www. fdpp. co. uk consumer, just a few grams variance can affect flavour, product quality, customer satisfaction and compliance with legal regulations. If errors occur here, there is not only the threat of costly product recalls, but also a loss of trust that has a long-term impact on the brand and market position.
Advanced weighing technology makes a decisive contribution to minimising such risks. It not only ensures accurate weight determination, but also documented traceability, hygienic processing and reliable process control.“ Those who rely on precision and control in their production create the basis for consistent product quality and protect consumers and companies at the same time,” says Nils Hubrich, Product Manager at Minebea Intec.
Weight indicators as a key factor for safe and traceable processes
Whether dosing raw materials, filling packaging, checking quantities or monitoring recipes- weighing processes are essential in almost all steps of food production. The MiNexx ® C, M and L Weight indicators fulfil a central function here: they process the signals from the connected load cells and platforms, prepare the weight values and control specific functions such as manual batching, piece counting or checking fill levels.