Safer food production to maximize profits and protect consumer interests

Summary: Both due diligence and lean manufacturing can make your food processing business safer, more efficient, and more profitable. Fengling Automation's automatic checkweigher, metal detector, and X-ray foreign body detection system are your good helpers for safer food production.

Safer food production to maximize profits and protect consumer interests

Efficient production lines that meet strict international food safety standards will help companies maximize profits, produce safer foods and protect the interests of end consumers.

The perfect combination of lean manufacturing and due diligence can produce safer food on a more efficient production line that meets strict international food safety standards. With less waste, achieving safe production and strict product safety is the forefront of lean manufacturing.

It can save time, energy and money while maintaining brand and product value. This concept originally originated from Japan, and companies need to be careful not to interpret it too narrowly, nor to ignore other threats by focusing on a single process to avoid waste. Inadvertent inefficiency in other aspects of the production line will exacerbate food waste and affect the company's profits. Each factor of inefficiency must be addressed individually from the root cause, but the overall production line must be considered. This is especially true for missed metal contamination. The occurrence of such contamination at any point in the production line can cause the contaminants to be transmitted downstream and spread to the subsequent process. Small fragments complicate the contamination problem. From this point on, the cost of waste products will rise significantly, because pollution will affect the value added at each stage of the production process.

Strict food safety standards

Food manufacturers and processors are responsible for the safety of customers, ensuring that the food sold is safe and pollution-free, and can be eaten with confidence. The production environment of general food processing will generate metal pollution risks. If the manufacturer can prove that it has implemented the due diligence plan (and has taken all reasonable precautions), it will be understood as mitigating potential risks in the process.

Based on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), metal contamination can be identified as a hazard source. A reasonable preventive measure is to install a metal detection system that can fully perform due diligence as a defined critical control point (CCP) within the process. This reduces the risk of contamination, enables manufacturers to maximize the protection of customer interests and brand reputation, while supporting lean working principles.

Recent food safety scares Recent European incidents have shown that food safety is an attribute that consumers are more willing to spend money to obtain. For example, since the horsemeat scandal, the National Federation of Meat and Grain Traders reported that the sales of individual butchers have increased by 15%. In Asia, panic about the contamination of infant milk powder has forced European retailers to implement limited sales. Distributors took full advantage of the panic mentality of Chinese consumers, buying milk from a safe source, and then reselling it to Chinese consumers at a higher price.

Food safety is a major concern of customers. In the eyes of consumers, the safe food they trust is valuable. To this end, manufacturers must perform due diligence and strive to maintain this trust. Unsafe food is waste food. The cost of waste is very expensive. In fact, waste is very harmful to corporate profits, and the business process of lean manufacturing aims to eliminate waste in various forms.