While it may be said that food safety and food quality are not necessarily interrelated, get lax about either, and you probably won’t have a brand for long.

A new range of contaminants, product defects and packaging imperfections are being spotted by the latest styles of multi-beam X-ray systems and optical inspection technologies.

In the process, it widens the window of product types treatable by the same unit.

Antimicrobials are commonly used in packaging, but their use as direct food coatings has not yet caught on.
 

Elements include HACCP plans, manufacturing operations management, instant traceability and recall management and single-source ERP.

A team at the University of Manchester will head up the research.

Just two-thirds of respondents reported satisfaction with current initiatives.