Food manufacturers need to comply with the industry regulations and standards, such as HACCP, FSMA or BRC. Acquiring these safety certifications means that the food manufacturers need to have an effective inspection in place, and in many cases, metal detectors are not enough to guarantee the needed detection performance due to their lack in detecting other materials than metal.

With X-ray inspection, you will be able to detect various foreign bodies or quality defects (such as missing pieces or broken products) in your food products. This will enable you to reduce the number of reclamations and to provide the safest and high-quality products to your customers. Mekitec’s MEKI™ system is the solution to your inspection concerns – it provides the X-ray system’s excellent performance with the best value in the industry.

With X-ray inspection, you can protect your customers and brand image by detecting multiple hazardous foreign bodies and quality defects (such as missing pieces or broken products) from food packaging lines. Using X-ray systems to inspect individual food packages prevents costly product recalls and reduces the number of reclamations and ensures that only the safest and high-quality products reach consumers.

Also, when establishing a product safety or HACCP/HARCP plan or obtaining third-party food safety certifications, such as BRC, SQF, and IFS, food producers and packers are required to implement in-line inspection systems to fulfill the safety requirements. MEKI™ ONE works as such a system by inspecting each individual food package, detecting hazardous foreign bodies (metals, glass, stones, and even dense plastics) and unwanted quality defects from them.

The MEKI™ X-ray inspection system is designed for smaller, consumer-packaged food products, but sometimes larger products require more from the inspection system. Mekitec’s MIDMEKI X-ray system is designed to address these particular concerns.

With X-ray inspection, you will be able to detect various foreign bodies or quality defects (such as missing pieces or broken products) in your food products. This will enable you to reduce the number of reclamations and to provide the safest and high-quality products to your customers. The MIDMEKI system provides excellent performance with the best value in the industry.

Inspect food products and remove the non-conforming ones quickly and accurately from your production line with our X-ray system. Using the latest in X-ray imaging and processing technology, the MIDMEKI system allows you to detect even the smallest metal contaminants, stone fragments and glass splinters, and a variety of other foreign objects, resulting in 100% food quality control. The system is designed to work even with frozen food, or food wrapped in aluminum or other metalized packaging.

Equipped with much larger tunnels and detection area, the system offers the possibility to inspect large products or even trays of several products. Our MIDMEKI system has the same features as the MEKI™ system – multiple quality inspection features, and excellent detection performance regardless of the product packaging or environmental conditions. Producers that value brand protection can rely on the MIDMEKI X-ray system for fast and accurate food quality control and inspections.

Since the introduction of the X-ray technology for quality control in the food industry, this superior inspection method has grown in importance and gained its position as the leading food safety solution. 

Primary packaging X-ray inspection has lifted Critical Control Points to become a key part of the overall supply chain traceability that starts all the way from raw material and ends with consumers buying the products.  

It’s commonly known that X-ray systems are able to detect also non-metallic contaminants, but when the inspection is performed with individually packaged products, X-ray can offer tremendous value in terms of overall quality control (such as headspace and sealing inspection) and traceability. This reduces the number of reclamations and provides safe and high-quality products to consumers. 

Also, when it becomes necessary to obtain new local or global quality and safety certifications (e.g. HACCP, HARCP, FSMA or BRC), in-line X-ray inspection systems meet and exceed the set requirements for any regulations. Implementing X-ray inspection gives you versatility to enter new markets, comply with any standards and change packaging material, without limitations.