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Produce Company Sticks with Proven Metal Detectors for New Plant

Happy with the metal detectors at its first two plants, F&S Produce installs six additional ones at its new plant that provide dependability, washdown capability, and high sensitivity to metal contaminants.

All products are sent through the metal detector as the final step before secondary packaging.
All products are sent through the metal detector as the final step before secondary packaging.

F&S Produce has been perfecting its production practices since the company’s start 37 years ago. Now, it’s a leading supplier of fresh-cut and frozen produce, purees, and specialty prepared foods. To meet growing demand, F&S Produce opened a third facility in Vineland, NJ, in 2018 and installed six new Signature Touch metal detectors from Mettler-Toledo Safeline to maximize food safety on their new packaging lines.

“When we researched metal detectors for our first two facilities many years ago, other food processors suggested Mettler-Toledo. They had a reputation for making the most accurate and reliable systems then, and they still do today. We’ve installed more and more Safeline metal detectors over the years and have been very happy with their performance,” says Sam Pipitone Jr., President and founder of F&S Produce. “Our longtime sales rep, Joe Young from Reliant Packaging Machinery, suggested the Signature Touch systems for our new lines, since they give us all the user-friendly functionality we need at a great price.”

According to Mettler-Toledo, its Signature Touch is a robust workhorse that’s ideal for F&S Produce’s applications. Featuring high-frequency advanced coil technology and state-of-the-art electronic filtering techniques, it finds both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including even the most difficult to detect non-magnetic stainless steel fragments, while minimizing false rejects.

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