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Food safety is an enormous concern for modern businesses. The reputation of your brand and the ability to make sales depends on how safe your products are.

Topics: Product Safety, X-Ray Inspection, Food Inspection, MDX

Earning a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification is a major milestone for any company in the food industry. Meeting the rigorous safety standard isn’t always easy, but the rewards are often well worth the effort.

Topics: Product Safety, Food Inspection, GFSI Audits

The Global Food Safety Initiative, or GFSI, imposes some strict compliance standards on companies wishing to be GFSI-certified.

A GFSI certification helps businesses prove that their food meets incredibly tough standards for safety and quality, opening new business opportunities and increasing consumer confidence. The question is, “Is your business ready for a GFSI audit?”

Topics: GFSI Audits

Meeting the requirements of the Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI’s) optional certification can be very demanding. However, qualifying for GFSI certification can provide numerous benefits for businesses in the food industry, including:

Topics: X-Ray Inspection, Food Safety and Quality Inspection, GFSI Audits

Food safety and quality assurance are fundamental elements of success in modern markets. A single food safety incident can tarnish a company’s reputation, driving away business and crippling operations.

Topics: Product Quality, Food Inspection

Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) technology is one of the best product inspection technologies for the meat production industry. This is a revolutionary technology that every raw meat producer should have on their production line.

Topics: Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) Technologi

Food safety is a major concern for businesses in all corners of the food industry. According to estimates by the Center for Disease Control, “each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases.”

Topics: Food Safety and Quality Inspection

For any packaged food manufacturer, product safety is of the utmost concern. When products are unsafe, they can create a public relations nightmare that can be difficult for any company to recover from.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

At this point, x-ray product inspection is a well-established technology with numerous benefits for processed food manufacturers throughout Canada and the U.S.A.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

Bacteriological contamination is an enormous concern for companies that process raw meat. Infections such as listeria and e. coli are an enormous threat to the safety of food products and the customers who consume them.

Examples of foodborne bacteriological outbreaks continue to make the news each year, such as the e. coli outbreak in late 2015 that affected consumers in California, Washington, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Virginia, and Missouri.

Topics: Product Inspection