METAL DETECTORS
Metal Detectors are most critical equipment of all food safety equipment in bakeries as well as any other
food industry . These are ccps for most of bakeries for HACCP . All food safety standards has SOP s for
metal detector . Basic function of metal detector is to detect metal and other foreign particles in finished as
well as wet product like dough . Its rejects the contaminated material through automated rejection systems
or stops the production line .
Various brands of metal detector are found in bakeries .Few popular metal detector manufacturers are
mentioned below
Types of Metal detector
Wet type metal detectors
Dry type metal detectors
Sizes of metal detector depends upon the width of the conveyor and height depends upon the product
size and senstivity required
Locks Inspection systems Inc - Metal check , Met Series
Mettler Taledo - Safeline
Heat & Control Inc - Ishida , FastBack
Eriez -Ez tec
Advance Detection sytem - Proscan
Anritsu Industrial solution USA Inc - KD series
Fortress Technology Inc - Vector , Contact
Loma Inspection systems -Loma
S+S Inspection Inc - Genius
Thermo Scientific process equipment division - Goring Kerr , Thermo electron,Ramsey
In India
Technofour metal detectors are the most used metal detectors in bakery plants .
