Nutradried Creations Uses S+S X-ray Inspection System RAYCON
Nutradried Creations is a Blaine, Washington-based leader that uses state-of-the-art technology to create shelf stable, healthy snacks derived from natural, whole foods. As a company, it boasts a track record that demonstrates it is about more than turning a profit.
Nutradried Creations has a compelling, simple mission statement: Nutradried Creations’ purpose and mission is to create a Triple Bottom Line impacting people’s lives and bringing profit to shareholders – through social business by selling environmentally and socially responsible products that will ensure that the customer receives the best nutritional products possible, through the innovative use of patented process and strategic relationships.
To help achieve these goals, the company needs vendors it can trust to help it on the operation and processing side. In addition to new customer expectations, Nutradried Creations must also comply with a higher compliance bar raised by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past several years. Perhaps the most significant are the much tougher Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) requirements.
Of these, FDA warning letters have tended to most often focus on corrective actions. The final rule requires a plant‘s HACCP plan to identify the corrective actions to be taken if a critical limit is not met. Corrective actions are intended to ensure that no product leaves the facility that has been adulterated or is dangerous to human health.
S+S’s solution is HACCP, BRC, and IFS compliant.
S+S’s RAYCON Product Inspection system is notable for several performance capabilities:
In addition to metal, RAYCON product inspection systems can complete more advanced product analysis to detect contaminants, other systems might miss. Glass, ceramic, stone and bone in food can be problematic for an inadequate system. The RAYCON will detect high density plastics such as PVC and natural rubber, as well as identify other product defects including cracks, missing components and underweight products.
In addition, packaging components such as aluminum clips on sausage chubs or aluminum pie plates can be masked out as needed. RAYCON’s unique edge filter technology will analyze dense packaging edges in metal cans or carton walls, compensate for them; but still find foreign material at these edges. So 100% package inspection is always taking place with the RAYCON. Users like Nutradried Creations can operate with confidence with this kind of support.
RAYCON‘s innovative software also delivers a number of advantages. The use of real-time, solid-state flash memory, means no longer having to account for error-prone spinning hard drives. A Linux operating system - known the world over as a very robust industrial platform - allows for the full processing horsepower of a dedicated image analysis computer to find the smallest foreign material in food products. Finally, the electronic design is modular and rugged; no UPS is required for system protection, and access is easy, for lower cost of ownership.
Nutradried Creations Plant Manager Phil Fraley says: “We spent about twelve hours going through the capabilities for each competitor. Ultimately, many things set S+S apart from the pack, e.g. a commitment to quality training. S+S included quality training in their fees and pro-vided us with a great machine.”
Source: S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH
