X-ray Inspection for Red Meat

Designing reliable x-ray food inspection systems for the red meat industry is our specialty. With more than 3,000 systems installed worldwide, Eagle Product Inspection fat analysis and x-ray machines are built to meet the challenging production environments of any red meat processing company. Our hygienic physical machine design combined with our advanced image analysis software provide you with the highest quality meat processing equipment that yields superior food inspection results on your production line. Spot more physical contamination in red meat and uplevel your food quality control operations with Eagle x ray food inspection equipment.
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Inline Fat Analysis vs Core Sampling

Meat Safety and Compliance

FA3/M Advantages

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Product Testing

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Inline Fat Analysis vs Core Sampling

Inline Fat Analysis vs Core Sampling

This industry insight video explores how inline fat analysis takes the guesswork out of meat inspection by providing the most accurate chemical lean values.

Click the link below to learn more about the benefits of inline fat analysis for slaughterhouses and further processors.

 

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Meat Safety and Compliance

Meat Safety and Compliance

Whether trying to conform to a HARPC based program like FSMA or a GFSI HACCP, having Eagle x-ray systems on your line with advanced traceability software, like Eagle’s TraceServer™, will provide measures and documentation essential to compliance. Click below to learn how an Eagle x-ray machine equipped with TraceServer™ provides companies with due diligence capabilities.

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FA3/M Advantages

FA3/M Advantages

This video highlights the unique features of the FA3/M fat analysis system that ensure precise fat measurement, detection accuracy and maximum uptime such as UPSHOT™, SimulTask™ PRO image analysis software and more.

Click below to learn more about industry’s most accurate inline fat analysis system.

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Low Total Cost of Ownership

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Keeping your x-ray or fat analysis machine running at peak performance over its lifetime requires a partner that understands how to ensure its performance from initial start up to the final run. Eagle’s service and support packages focus on a low total cost of ownership. Click the link below to learn more about the 5 customer support solutions designed for maximum machine uptime.

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Product Testing

Product Testing

Eagle experts are happy to discuss your specific product application, inspection requirements and production environment to configure the ideal x-ray or fat analysis machine to enhance the safety and quality of your line. Send us your product for a free test and you will receive a detailed report that includes the machine configuration and inspection data, including the Probability of Detection (POD), expressed as a percentage, which is equivalent to its detection probability in a real production environment.

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Eagle Delivers the Formula for Your Success

No matter how a meat inspection companies slice it, grind it, package it or transport it, Eagle Product Inspection has fat analysis and inline x-ray food inspection solutions for a variety of processed red meat. This  includes trim and primal cuts, sausages, ground meats, bone-in products, case-ready meats and countless other meat packaging types.

Explore our meat analysis technologies and learn more about our application specific range of solutions for beef, lamb and pork processing in various types of meat packaging. You will find that Eagle delivers the world’s #1 food safety and inspection service that more red meat food processing companies trust.

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Eagle’s Advanced X-ray Technologies & Software

SimulTask™ PRO

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Enhanced Dual Energy

Dual Energy

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SimulTask™ PRO

SimulTask™ PRO

SimulTask™ PRO, short for Simultaneous Tasking, is Eagle’s advanced x-ray image analysis software and is the basis for all our operator-friendly x-ray inspection systems. With the highest greyscale range of 65,535 values, you will see deeper contrast and subtle differences that provide superior image results.

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TraceServer™

TraceServer™

The Eagle TraceServer™ x-ray software program records valuable production data and machine status information from one or more of Eagle’s x-ray machines and consolidates it into a single centralized database. This intelligent software provides companies with due-diligence capabilities to enhance product traceability and overall quality assurance.

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Enhanced Dual Energy

Enhanced Dual Energy

Exclusive to Eagle, this radically enhanced dual energy detector captures more detailed information about a product than previously possible. When this product information is instantly processed by Eagle’s advanced image analysis software, SimulTask PRO™, you’ll see higher resolution images, an increase in detection accuracy and significantly reduced false reject rates.

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Dual Energy

Dual Energy

Material Discrimination X-ray, MDX is Eagle’s original dual energy technology that provides better detection for objects that show a very small x-ray absorption variation. Dense foreign bodies in dense products are more easily detected using MDX compared to single energy detectors.

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Fat Analysis

Fat Analysis

Our Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) technology to inspect 100% of throughput in real-time, providing fat measurement accuracy better than +/- 1CL, while simultaneously verifying mass and detecting physical contaminants.

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Eagle Product Inspection Advantages

Adjustable mechanical variations

Allowing for adjustments in your raw or unpackaged variables

Versatile

Vast material handling enabling a wide variety of meat types from fresh to frozen, unpackaged and packaged

Intelligent

Eagle x-ray food inspection image analysis with the widest grey scale range revealing more physical contamination that may be in your product

Simple to use interface

Graphical displays provide real-time production data for more accuracy

Flexible link to inspection process

Experience multiple benefits when linking your fat analysis to your inspection process

Adaptable integration into production

Benefit from fat analysis process optimization and improvements in food quality control

Easy Inline Integration for Your Complete System

As part of a complete solution, Eagle PI fat analysis machines provide accurate measurements of 100% of meat throughput to improve yields, enhance product quality and maximize profits.

  • Red Meat Recipe Management System: Installing an inline fat analysis (FA) system, as part of a complete recipe management solution, enables meat processors to create a batch of meat with a specific Chemical Lean (CL) at a target weight.
  • Red Meat Trim System: Installing an inline fat analysis machine as part of a complete red meat trim system provides a meat slaughterhouse with the measurements needed to accurately pack plastic crates, cartons or combos to a predefined CL and weight target.
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Meat Inspection Capabilities

Dual Energy Inspection

Enhances traditional x-ray food inspection and allows for the detection of materials previously unseen by single energy x-ray.

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Fat Measurement

100% meat inspection provides precise chemical lean values to better than +/- 1 CL.

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Contaminant Detection

Superior x-ray food inspection technology provides outstanding detection of physical contamination regardless of their size, shape or location within a product.

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Fill Level Inspection

Maintaining the correct fill level is crucial for  food quality control, customer satisfaction and your profit margin.

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Mass Measurement

Mass and weight measurement with x-ray food inspection technology provides an additional layer of process control and due diligence to ensure a high-quality.

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Package Integrity

Package integrity is essential to identify and reject deformed packages and also critically important that seals remain airtight to ensure freshness of food products.

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Component Count

Ensuring proper component count with x-ray food inspection technology is quicker and far more reliable than other inspection methods because x-ray systems can look inside sealed packaging for verification.

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Bone Detection

Eagle’s enhanced dual energy detectors provide superior bone detection.

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What our Customers Say 3000+ Manufacturers Around the world use our systems

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"The Eagle x-ray machine has resulted in a dramatic reduction of bones in our boneless products—basically down to zero. By purchasing a dual-lane system, we’re able to double our output, or run different products at the same time."
Bruno Giannone Vice-President and CEO
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“The x-ray’s software program is very intuitive. It’s simple to set up and program. I learned a great deal from Eagle’s service department on how to run the machine and appreciate their know-how, availability 24/7 and professionalism.”
Tim Pheland Process Engineer
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"Quality is key for us. Now, thanks to the Eagle™ Bulk 415 PRO we can totally say our products are contaminant free and we truly believe this will let us keep growing and exploring new markets."
Mrs. Fuensanta Carrillo Sales and Marketing Manager, Higos El Pajarero
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"We were very impressed with Eagle’s on-site service. The team adjusted the equipment to meet our needs perfectly."
Mr. Arno Strotmann Project Manager
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“By improving our quality control, the Pack 240 PRO has helped us stay BRCGS certified on this line which helps us bestow confidence to our customers that products leaving our premises are manufactured according to the highest food safety standards.”
Mr. Tim Laberge Plant Manager
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"Going forward, any new inspection systems or upgrades to current inspection technologies will be x-ray inspection systems, they are extremely reliable, easy to operate and easy to maintain."
Merrily Blasi Quality Assurance Manager
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“When first presented with the idea of inspecting our products using x-ray inspection systems, we doubted that it could help us to improve and assure the quality of their products; now it is a fundamental part inside of our system of quality”
Ramiro Espinoza Kowi’s Plant Director
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"We chose Eagle’s Pack 430 PRO because of the machine’s software capabilities - in particular, the multitask features which offered more options, compared to competitors’ machines, such as checkweighing."
Vincent Angiolillo VP Engineering and R&D Strategic Initiatives, Schuman Cheese, Inc.
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Industry Resources

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Brochures Eagle’s X-ray Inspection Product Guide
Food & Beverage

Eagle’s X-ray Inspection Product Guide

Our product guide features each of our x-ray and fat analysis systems, along with their specific capabilities, and is designed to help manufacturers find the optimal solution for their individual needs.

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White Papers Can You Guarantee Your Chemical Lean Values?
Red Meat
Can You Guarantee Your Chemical Lean Values?

Essential reading for anyone involved in the production or processing of meat.

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Application Notes quality control of food
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Chub Packaging – Ground Meats

Eagle’s Pack 400 HC helps ground meat chub manufacturers maximize yields and increase profitability.

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Let’s Get to the Meat of the Matter – Inline X-ray Fat Analysis

How x-ray technology measures fat accurately, improves yields and enhances product quality

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