Fruit Gourmet increases quality control with the Ishida X-ray
Fruit Gourmet supplies a variety of fruits including prunes, apricots, figs, grapes, mangoes, strawberries, raspberries, apples, blueberries, bananas and cranberries, sold to the consumer as cooking ingredients and as healthy snacks, packed in bags as well in bulk. The Ishida IX-GA-2475 X-ray model is being used for the inspection of bulk streams of the fruit pieces.
Because of careful supplier selection and long processing experience, products such as Fruit Gourmet’s shredded apricot rarely contain contaminants. However, the Ishida X-ray inspection system, already highly sensitive, can be set to even higher levels of sensitivity for the contaminants that have historically been known to occur in such agricultural products, such as minute particles of glass, stone or buckshot.
One aspect that particularly appealed to Fruit Gourmet was the Ishida’s revolutionary image processing software which enables the operator, without any special training, to automatically generate the optimal sensitivity setting for each inspected product.
Hygiene was another factor, with the IX-GA’s design practically eliminating areas in which product can build up.
A well-known slogan of Fruit Gourmet has the product itself saying “I am not the fruit of hazard”, meaning that its level of quality did not just happen by chance but is the result of many years of experience combined with excellent raw materials, expertly selected.
CEO Emeric Cadalen sees the security offered by the new Ishida X-ray inspection system as just one more extension of this approach, in which nothing is left to chance.
For more information:
Theo de Koning
Ishida Europe BV
Tel +31 4993 93675
Theo.dekoning@ishidaeurope.com