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Orval Kent assures food safety with X-ray inspection

Orval Kent, one of the largest producers of prepared salads for foodservice customers in North America, takes food safety very seriously.

X-ray inspection at Orval Kent
X-ray inspection at Orval Kent

At their plant in Linares, Mexico, where fruit salads are made, every package passes through an x-ray inspection system prior to being shipped.  To maximize detection sensitivity and uptime, they recently replaced their older x-ray system with a PowerChek x-ray system from Mettler-Toledo Safeline.        

“For customers like Costco, Sysco, airline companies and others, maintaining the highest product quality and food safety is critical.  These customers rely on Orval Kent and we rely on our Safeline x-ray system.  The machine allows us to guarantee our customers will not receive contaminants in our products,” said Adalberto Salce, Plant Engineer at Orval Kent’s Linares facility. 

Orval Kent produces over 80 different types of fruit salads, which are packaged into 4 lb and 8 lb PET jars and 1, 3 and 5 lb flexible pouches on five filling lines at the Linares plant.  All products from the five filling lines go to a single shipping line where they are inspected by the PowerChek x-ray system prior to case packing.

“Food safety is a hot issue today.  Consumers are more aware of the consequences and producers need to comply with higher expectations.  At Orval Kent, we produce salads that are as fresh as possible while being as safe as possible,” noted Salce.  “The Safeline x-ray system helps us achieve the highest product quality.  It detects metal, glass, plastic and other types of foreign material and removes contaminated product from the production line.”

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