Advanced 
Quality Control of Food

Eagle’s systems have an auto-learn function whereby an acceptable weight pack is passed through the x-ray machine and an ‘acceptable tolerance’ is established that can be used to compare all future products against. If the calculated mass falls within a programmed tolerance, the package is good, but if it deviates, the package will be rejected. This is ideal for product inspection on high-speed lines where traditional inline weighing systems may not be practical and when manufacturers can’t accommodate separate food contamination detection and checkweighing devices due to space limitations.

Fill level inspection is a crucial quality control issue for food, beverage and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Maintaining a product’s correct fill level is a constant challenge with overfills and underfills having a significant impact on customer satisfaction as well as a company’s bottom line.

An Eagle x-ray inspection system allows manufacturers to set maximum and minimum fill levels and reject any product that falls outside the range. Fill levels can also be adjusted by adding an optional feedback to the filling machine, which is especially beneficial for staged products like cans of potato chips, liquid foods such as yogurt drinks, or loose products like milk powder.

Counting components of food with x-ray technology is much quicker and far more reliable than other inspection methods. An Eagle system is capable of looking inside sealed packaging to check that all components are present, something that can’t be done by cameras or the human eye. Our x-ray machines confirm the presence of a cap or lid. If the cap is missing, the cap area appears brighter on the x-ray image and the product will be rejected from the production line. Common applications include counting salad kit components, needles and syringes in a box, checking for the locking lever in an asthma inhaler, counting chocolate bars in a box and more.

Product integrity is a vital quality control issue for food and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Identifying and rejecting deformed packages or products from production is essential to customer satisfaction and brand reputation. X-ray inspection technology is capable of identifying broken cookies in packages, misshaped burger patties in boxes, rejecting dented cans from high speed lines and much more. Find out how our advanced software can help streamline your quality assurance program with demonstrable traceability and real-time image analysis.

Package integrity is a vital quality control issue for food and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not only is it essential to identify and reject deformed packages, but it is also critically important that seals remain airtight to ensure the sterility of pharmaceutical products and freshness of food products. Seals can be easily compromised by stray particles of product, physical contaminants or misplaced product. Anything trapped within the seal of a ready meal or cheese packet, for example, could end in product spoilage. Eagle x-ray inspection systems are capable of identifying particles as small as 1 mm caught in seal areas and rejecting these compromised products from the production line.

For products that are presented in defined compartments, such as a box of chocolates or a ready meal with more than one compartment, mass measurement can provide results for each individual zone/compartment. X-ray software simultaneously checks the overall mass of the pack and that of each compartment. Additionally, the x-ray software produces a complete report, including relevant statistics on the production run and individual rejected items for contaminants, total mass and mass for each zone.

Eagle recognizes the importance of using the most robust, hygienic meat inspection and fat analysis systems that are easy to manage, and can adapt to your unique product line. From recipe management for ground products with FA or case inspection for sausages, our red meat inspection systems provide accurate and reliable results that are achieved consistently on processing lines regardless of throughput levels and environments.

Eagle provides advanced x-ray technologies and inspection systems for a variety of poultry applications, from the receipt of bulk-flow raw product, through in-process to final packaged product. Our hygienically constructed x-ray machines are suited for a variety of poultry applications. Discover our broad range of solutions with significant proven performance for superior detection of bones and other contaminants.

Catch and remove contaminants before they pose problems with Eagle’s hygienically constructed equipment. Our advanced inspection systems and breakthrough PXT™ detector technologies, help seafood manufacturers inspect more, ensuring superior quality while optimizing business performance. Applications include frozen fish fillets or blocks, canned or metalized pouches and bulk shelled products.

Eagle’s advanced inspection systems meet 3-A Sanitary Standards and can detect foreign contaminants in a multitude of dairy products, from raw cheese blocks to packaged yogurts. Our hygienically constructed equipment built to sanitary design can also ensure proper portioning, placement of product, weight and package integrity to deliver the safest, highest quality products.

Whether it’s detecting glass fragments in glass jars of jelly, plastic in a frozen bag of corn or metal in the bottom of a pickled vegetable jar, Eagle x-ray systems provide outstanding detection. With advanced dual energy technology our systems can detect contaminants in dense foods, such as dried bulk fruit, and generate easy-to-read images for enhanced analysis.

Eagle’s inline x-ray inspection systems provide exceptional detection and removal of foreign contaminants for food and beverage. Our advanced technology increases production productivity and saves manufacturing costs by simultaneously performing quality checks. Choose your industry below to learn how Eagle systems will enable you to comply with food regulations and reduce the risk of product recalls.