{"id":272,"date":"2015-10-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/blog\/use-of-radiography-to-control-the-food\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:00:00","slug":"use-of-radiography-to-control-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/blog\/use-of-radiography-to-control-the-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of radiography to control the food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">regulatory requirements<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">consumer demands<\/span>\u00a0which are more and more stringent, many industries use NDT technics to reliably control the\u00a0<span class=\"g-color1\">quality<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"g-color1\">safety<\/span>\u00a0of their products.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the case of the\u00a0<span class=\"g-color1\">agri-food sector<\/span>\u00a0in which it is necessary:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"liste-carres-noirs\" style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<li>To detect the presence of physical contaminants (metal, glass, rubber, plastic)<\/li>\n<li>To analyze the internal structure of foods before they go on sale in stores,<\/li>\n<li>To control the filling level of the packages,<\/li>\n<li>To monitor the presence of insects or worms in the seeds and fruits imported to avoid any risk of contamination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Different technologies are available for the inspection of food, including metal detectors, optical camera systems,\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">ultrasound<\/span>, and\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">X-rays<\/span>. The application of a specific inspection technology is related to the\u00a0<span class=\"g-color1\">nature of the food\u00a0<\/span>and the specific purpose of that inspection.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The use of\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">X-rays<\/span>\u00a0is particularly suitable for<span class=\"g-color1\">\u00a0in-line production control and verification<\/span>\u00a0of the packaged food and processed foods, particularly those in bottles, cans, and pouches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition, much research conducted in recent years by the Western Regional Research Center (Albany, CA)<span style=\"font-size: 0.83em; vertical-align: top;\">[1]<\/span>\u00a0and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile [2] have highlighted the potential of radiography for sorting fruit and cereal or detecting bones in chicken or fishbone in processed foods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To have a\u00a0<span class=\"g-color2\">global overview<\/span>\u00a0of the controls carried out by X-rays, you may be interested in reading this article published on the <a class=\"lien\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3857400\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Nouvelle fen\u00eatre)\">NIH website<\/a> [3].\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[1]. Haff RP &amp; Toyofuku N. (2008). X-ray detection of defects and contaminants in the food industry. Sens Instrumen Food Qual 2:262\u201373.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[2]. Mery D et al. (2011). Automated fish bone detection using X-ray imaging. J Food Eng 105(3):485\u201392.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[3].\u00a0Nachiket Kotwaliwale,\u00a0Karan Singh,\u00a0Abhimannyu Kalne,\u00a0Shyam Narayan Jha,\u00a0Neeraj Seth, and\u00a0Abhijit Kar. (2014). X-ray imaging methods for internal quality evaluation of agricultural produce. NIH website.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The EXTENDE&rsquo;s team<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to\u00a0regulatory requirements\u00a0and\u00a0consumer demands\u00a0which are more and more stringent, many industries use NDT technics to reliably control the\u00a0quality\u00a0and\u00a0safety\u00a0of their products. This is the case of the\u00a0agri-food sector\u00a0in which it is necessary: To detect the presence of physical contaminants (metal, glass, rubber, plastic) To analyze the internal structure of foods before they go on sale in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}