Every year, food manufacturers pull products from shelves because something that should never have been there made it into the package. Metal fragments, hard plastic, glass, bits of bone. According
Metal fragments from worn milling blades. Stones picked up during wheat harvest. Wire from broken sifter screens. These are the kinds of foreign materials that can end up in flour if
A single contamination event can shut down a production line, trigger a recall, and cost a food manufacturer its retail partnerships overnight. The CDC estimates that 48 million Americans get
A small shift in your checkweigher readings might not seem urgent, but the costs add up fast. Even 1 to 2 grams of drift per package can translate to thousands
Every extra gram of product is money walking out the door. Every underfilled package is a compliance risk waiting to surface. For new food manufacturers running automated packaging lines, understanding
In December 2025, a meat company recalled nearly 2,000 pounds of holiday kielbasa after a consumer found a 1.25-inch metal strip in their sausage. The recall made national news and
If you’ve started researching sorting equipment for your food processing operation, you’ve likely encountered a confusing mix of terms. “Optical sorter” and “color sorter” often appear interchangeably across manufacturer websites,
In 2024, undeclared allergens triggered 101 food recalls in the United States. Mislabeling was the single largest cause of recalls that year. Many of these incidents trace back to a
Foreign material contamination has surged to become the number one cause of food recalls in recent years. Research by Food Safety Net Services found that foreign material accounted for 75%
Glass ranks among the most dangerous physical hazards in food production. Unlike metal fragments that may pass through the digestive system, glass shards can lacerate internal tissues and cause choking.
