Advances in food scanning might spell the end for product recalls

Along with a host of other applications for the pork sector, the highly sensitive scanning technique of hyperspectral imaging promises to make food impurities a thing of the past.
Worldwide food-product recalls due to foreign-matter contamination (glass, plastic, packaging, bone) in May 2019
Worldwide food-product recalls due to foreign-matter contamination (glass, plastic, packaging, bone) in May 2019

Source: eFoodAlert

Hyperspectral imaging involves scanning food products across a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and analysing the “image” produced to look for imperfections and other elements of interest
Hyperspectral imaging involves scanning food products across a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and analysing the “image” produced to look for imperfections and other elements of interest

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The team at P&P Optica
The team at P&P Optica

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Treena Hein

Treena Hein is a Canadian writer who contributes to many publications both domestic and global in the field of agriculture and beyond. She is a winner of the ‘International Federation of Agricultural Journalists’ STAR Prize.

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