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Metal detector ensures top quality for Gematria’s nutritional supplements

Machine virtually eliminates potential contamination from getting into any of the company’s bottles, before they’re shipped out the door.

QUALITY ASSURANCE. A Signature Touch metal detector from Mettler-Toledo Safeline helps ensure the quality of Gematria’s nutritional supplements and antioxidant formulas.
QUALITY ASSURANCE. A Signature Touch metal detector from Mettler-Toledo Safeline helps ensure the quality of Gematria’s nutritional supplements and antioxidant formulas.

When Todd Ovokaitys, MD, founded Gematria Products in 1996, he set his sights high. The company’s guiding principle focuses on creating the most technologically advanced and superior health-promoting nutritional supplements. The highest integrity, the best intentions, and the customers’ health and wellbeing are in the forefront of all corporate actions. In support of these goals, Gematria in July 2013 installed a Signature Touch metal detector from Mettler-Toledo Safeline to help ensure the quality of their nutritional supplements and antioxidant formulas.

“In January 2013, we had our first [U.S.] FDA inspection. It went very well. It prompted us to consider a metal detector to achieve that final product quality check,” says Wanda Sanders, QA Manager at Gematria, Carlsbad, CA. “I’ve worked in the food and nutritional supplement industries for many years, and I’ve had the best experiences with Safeline metal detectors. I went to the WestPack trade show [in Feb. 2013] specifically to look at them. Of course, I looked at other metal detectors while I was there.

“We wanted a reliable, high-performance metal detector that could handle all of our capsules and liquids in all of our packages. We also needed it to fit into our crowded packaging room on an existing line,” adds Sanders. “We selected the Signature Touch metal detector from Mettler-Toledo Safeline.” 

The Signature Touch metal detector is designed for easy integration into production lines. Its electronics platform offers sensitivity and stability while easing use. With its high-frequency detection coil technology and filtering techniques, the system identifies common ferrous and nonferrous tramp metal and the most difficult to detect nonmagnetic stainless-steel fragments and nonspherical fine wire contaminants.

“We’ve never had a single customer complaint at Gematria, so the metal detector wasn’t installed to remedy any existing problems. It’s simply a precaution,” explains Sanders. “There is always the potential that metal contamination could come from raw materials or the manufacturing process, so it’s good to check every finished product before it goes out the door. Our Safeline metal detector helps ensure that customers open the bottle and get exactly what the label says, with no surprises. As a line of defense, it limits our exposure.”

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