Prepare for foreign bodies and product weight errors.
Did you know that up to one in four food recalls is due to foreign body contamination? Our solutions are engineered to safely secure your brand, your products and your consumers from contaminants and beyond. From weighing ingredients to controlling recipes and fill levels to inspecting final packaging, we’re here to support you: For food safety in any form!
Food safety in production
As a food manufacturer, you need reliable and precise technologies to meet strict hygiene and quality requirements such as HACCP and ISO 22000. This enables you to avoid costly product recalls and thus protect your brand, consumers and products. You are also faced with the challenge of reducing your costs and securing margins through efficient solutions. With our customised weighing and inspection technologies, we support you in successfully mastering these requirements.
Weighing and inspection technologies for the food industry
From beverages and dairy to baked goods and confectionery, meat and pet food - our solutions protect your brand and your customers, because they ensure quality and product safety along the entire production chain. Whether raw material testing, production or final inspection: our technologies help the food industry to meet high standards efficiently.
Beverage industry
Our weighing and inspection technologies guarantee the quality of your beverage production. Foreign bodies are reliably detected and your products meet the highest food safety standards - for a safe end product.
Dairies
For the dairy industry, we offer you precise solutions for compliance with the highest hygiene standards. Our technologies ensure reliable foreign body detection and consistent product quality.
Bakeries
With our weighing and inspection systems for the bakery industry, you are at the cutting edge in terms of quality and safety thanks to precise weight checks and reliable foreign body detection.
Confectionery industry
Our customised technologies ensure the highest quality and hygiene standards in the production of your confectionery. Foreign bodies are reliably detected - for an unadulterated enjoyment experience for your customers.
Meat and meat substitute industry
Our solutions offer maximum safety for your meat and meat substitute production. Precise weighing and inspection technologies ensure foreign body detection and consistent quality - for the highest industry standards.
Pet food industry
Our inspection solutions ensure the highest safety standards in the pet food industry. Foreign body detection and precise weight checks ensure the quality and safety of your products.
Comply with laws, avoid recalls, protect brands:
We offer solutions for these applications.
Our weighing and inspection technologies make a decisive contribution to food safety and at the same time increase efficiency and sustainability through automation and precision.
Metal detectors
Foreign body detection
- Detection and ejection of metal contaminants
X-ray inspection equipment
Foreign body detection
- Detection of metallic foreign bodies, glass, stones, certain plastics, bones
- Checking the completeness of packaging, fill levels
- Recognising product damage
Checkweighers
Dynamic weighing
- Checking underfilling and overfilling
- Completeness check
- Precise dosing of solids and liquids
Industrial scales
Static weighing processes
- Static checkweighing
- Dosing and mixing
- Fill level control, sorting and counting
Load cells
Static weighing processes
- Fill level control
- Dosing and filling
- Weighing containers and silos
Software
Recipe control and traceability
- Control and logging of recipe processes
- Complete traceability
- ProRecipe XT®, BatchPMS software, SPC@Enterprise
Safe production thanks to hygienic design
The hygienic design of our weighing and inspection solutions minimises the risk of cross-contamination and meets the highest hygiene standards. We offer variants with hygienic design for all solutions.
Best practices Our solutions in the field of food safety
Filling & dosing in the animal feed industry
Animal feed manufacturer Fat Hens in Egypt modernised its dosing systems with ProBatch+ and X5 weighing controllers to increase efficiency, performance and data security.
Weighing in the beverage industry
Minebea Intec's EWK checkweigher in Smurfit Kappa's Bag-in-Box® system ensures precise quality control at a major Japanese winemaker.
Foreign body detection in the food industry
A German manufacturer of salad dressings relies on the Mitus® metal detector with MiWave modulation to reduce false rejects and increase productivity.
Filling quantity control in the beverage industry
A juice producer increases production efficiency with industrial scales and software for statistical process control.
Labeling in the meat industry
Hygienic design price labeling system for seamless traceability
Safe sizing in the meat industry
High-precision checkweigher withstands harsh environmental conditions
Process control & statistics for confectionery
Precise results optimise processes in confectionery production
Formulation in food process engineering
Station with bench and floor scales for dust-free weighing.
Do you feel inspired by our success stories?
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Safer through knowledge Our how-to guides, webinars, white papers and specialist articles relating to food safety
How-to guides on food safety
Our how-to-guides offer practical step-by-step instructions to optimise safety standards in your production - from foreign body detection to traceability. Download them here for free!
- How the right technologies can provide effective protection against recalls to the bakery industry
- How weighing and inspection technologies can increase the efficiency of your confectionery production
- How you as a food manufacturer can choose the right metal detection technology
- How the right technologies can effectively protect recalls to the dairy industry
- How the right technologies can effectively protect against recalls
Our webinars on food safety
Discover practical insights and expert knowledge about HACCP, quality control and foreign body detection. Our webinars help you to make your production processes safer and more efficient.
- LIVE: ProRecipe XT® recipe management system for the food industry
- From Factory to Fork: Ensuring Safe Food with the new MiWave technology
- Protecting brands, safeguarding consumers - minimising the risk of recalls in the meat industry
- How to benefit from Foreign Body Detection in your production
- How you can ensure your processes within the Confectionery production best possible
- Recipe process within the food industry - traceability at a click of a button!
White Paper on food safety
Our White Papers offer you valuable insights into quality standards, foreign body detection and inspection solutions - for optimum product safety and efficient processes. Download them here for free!
- Hygienic design: principles and guidelines for open processes in food production
- Metal detection in production lines: Requirements, technology and application recommendations
- X-ray inspection in food production: requirements, technology and application recommendations
Specialist articles on food safety
Read in-depth specialist articles on current developments and technologies in food safety. Find out how innovative solutions help to ensure the highest standards and make production processes safer.
- The life-threatening danger in the air: weighing solutions for potentially explosive atmospheres
- Increased efficiency and top product quality: From poultry to vegan: how the latest weighing and inspection technologies are efficiently shaping change in the meat market
- Increasing demands from pet owners put pet food manufacturers under additional pressure
- How X-ray inspection systems increase food safety: Protection from costly product recalls
Do you need help with the realisation of your weighing or inspection solution?
Simply send us your questions or requests using the contact form or give us a call. We will be happy to help you.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Product Liability Act and why is it important?
The Product Liability Act protects consumers from unsafe products and makes companies liable for damage caused by defective products. This is particularly important to ensure safety and confidence in food products.
Can you give an example of the Product Liability Act?
An example would be food that is contaminated with a foreign object, such as a piece of metal. If a person is injured as a result, the manufacturing company is liable under the Product Liability Act for the damage caused.
What does the EU Product Safety Regulation regulate?
The EU Product Safety Regulation stipulates that only safe products may be placed on the market. It strengthens the protection of consumers in the EU and ensures that products meet strict safety standards.
What does HACCP mean in the food industry?
HACCP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, is a preventive concept for ensuring food safety. It helps us to identify risks in the production process at an early stage and take measures at critical control points to avoid hazards.
Our solutions for critical control points
Minebea Intec supports food safety along the entire process chain:
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Receiving raw materials: Our metal detectors check raw materials for foreign objects directly on receipt before they enter production.
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Processing: Our X-ray inspection systems are used during production to detect impurities such as metal splinters at an early stage.
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Packaging: Checkweighers and metal detectors ensure that only safe, correctly packaged products leave the production process.
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Final inspection: This is where our inspection systems carry out a final check to ensure that each product meets all quality requirements. With our solutions, we secure critical control points in accordance with HACCP and help to ensure product safety and quality in the food industry.
Why is an HACCP concept necessary for food businesses?
An HACCP concept ensures that companies control and minimise risks such as contamination or impurities. This enables them to fulfill legal requirements for food hygiene and protect consumers
How does HACCP support quality management in food production?
HACCP helps companies to design their processes in such a way that product safety and quality are guaranteed. By identifying and monitoring critical control points, HACCP ensures the high quality of end products.
Which HACCP guidelines apply to food hygiene?
HACCP guidelines require companies to analyse potential hazards, assess risks and take appropriate preventative measures. These include the inspection of raw materials, hygienic production conditions and training for employees
What is quality assurance in production?
Quality assurance includes measures to ensure that products meet the desired requirements and standards. In the food industry, this is important in order to protect consumers from inferior or unsafe products.
Which processes are part of quality assurance in companies?
Quality assurance covers the entire production process - from raw material control through production to the final inspection of the finished product. It ensures that the products comply with uniform quality standards.
Why is quality assurance during production important?
Quality assurance during production ensures that quality requirements are met during production. It helps to detect errors at an early stage and continuously improve production processes.
What does quality assurance look like in the production process?
In the production process, quality assurance means systematically checking all production steps. This includes monitoring machines, training employees and regularly checking the end products.
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