Is your product label inspection compliant?

摘要

The humble label is not quite so humble anymore as the increased focus from consumers on healthier eating and the associated checking of a product's contents shows no signs of abating. In addition to the mandatory information required on food packaging, it is also an important contributor to a product's branding, so it is perhaps not surprising that labels have never been more important to food processors. A consequence of the increased diversity of information and the fact that the number of labels is increasing has made the role of checking labels more complex and the risk of error greater. Through its Packing Solutions Division, Interfood Technology offers SparcEye, the means to achieve automatic fail-safe label and print verification as part of an integrated metal detection/checkweighing/x-ray process. SparcEye inspects the primary label, printed top web, promotional label and base label for 1D/2D barcodes, along with the individual date code character, on every pack. It checks not only that the labels are present and correctly positioned, but also that the specific information and individual date code is accurate and readable. It does this via 2 separate cameras, one for the top and the other for the bottom of the pack, ensuring it is fully configurable for any future changes to label design or the information it carries. If any anomalies are detected, packs are quickly ejected from the production line into dedicated lockable reject bins to comply with strict retailer codes of practice.