How Safe is X-ray Inspection of Food?

Every year, more and more household brands are subjecting their products to x-ray inspection to ensure they’re fit for consumption and meet consumers’ high expectations. However, that’s not a cause for fear and there’s no need to switch to brands that haven’t been x-rayed.

doesn’t cause it to become radioactive, just as we don’t become radioactive after having a chest x-ray. Nor for that matter do our bags become radioactive when they pass through airport security. In fact, a bar of chocolate in our hand luggage is as safe to eat after it’s been through the security scanner as it was before (phew!).

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How Do X-ray Systems Find Contaminants?

For more than 20 years, food manufacturers have been relying on x-ray systems to detect and reject contaminated products from their production lines, but how do they actually find contaminants?

Cast Your Memory Back

If you think back to your school days, you may recall learning that x-rays are one of several naturally-occurring sources of radiation and an invisible form of electromagnetic radiation like radio waves.

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X-ray Systems within the Food Industry

If you’ve ever had a bone or dental x-ray, you’ll know x-rays are regularly used in the medical world to see what’s happening inside our bodies. You’ll probably be aware they’re also used in security applications to look inside baggage and parcels.

Does your morning ritual include sipping bleary-eyed on a cup of tea or coffee and guzzling a bowl of cereal. Perhaps you like to eat a doughnut mid morning, before polishing off a cheese sandwich? Maybe tonight’s dinner will consist of a ready meal, followed by a tub of ice cream? And how often do you raid the biscuit tin before bed.

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