Foreign Material and External Inspection Guide

A Guidance Document for Your Industry

We have created a guidance document for the meat and poultry industry to help deepen your understanding of the uses and value of external foreign material inspection services when faced with issues. In this guidance document, we address:

The different ways foreign material contamination can be introduced in product
Tools and resources available to mitigate foreign material contamination
How foreign material contamination can impact your compay’s reputation

At A Glance

Understanding the Scope of the Problem
Changing the Approach
How FlexXray Addresses Foreign Material Contamination
Key Concerns in Foreign Material Contamination

Understanding the Scope of the Problem

Material that is not supposed to be in your product—whether that’s bone fragments in boneless chicken nuggets, plastic in a chopped steak, or metal in a sausage link—is foreign material to your product.

Changing the Approach

Foreign material contamination can be easily found and controlled—and yet very few (if any) food producers have a plan for validation of product for foreign material contamination like they do for microbiological contaminants.

How FlexXray Addresses Foreign Material Contamination

Over our history, we’ve worked on thousands of projects and saved millions of pounds of food and billions of dollars for the food industry—but as good as those numbers sound, they’re no substitute for proving our work. Find a few examples here.

Key Concerns in Foreign Material Contamination

The impacts on your company can be every bit as huge as your foreign material is small. In this final section, we’ll cover some of the impacts of foreign material using terms that likely keep you awake at night.

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