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1、 EU strengthens weight compliance supervision of pre packaged food

Event details: In January 2025, the European Union issued a total of 4.8 million euros in fines to 23 food companies for exceeding the net content labeling error, involving frozen meat, infant and toddler food and other categories. Violating enterprises face product removal and brand reputation damage due to packaging weight deviation exceeding the allowable range (such as labeling 200g, actual weight only 190g).
Regulatory requirements: The EU requires companies to strictly comply with the EU1169/2011 regulation, and dynamic weighing scales must support ± 0.1g error detection and generate compliance reports.
Technological upgrade: Some high-end weight inspection equipment integrates AI algorithms to automatically calibrate production line fluctuations, reducing misjudgments caused by temperature and vibration.
2、 North American pre packaged food companies recall on a large scale due to metal foreign objects
Event progress: In February 2025, a pre packaged food brand in the United States recalled 120000 products due to stainless steel fragment contamination, resulting in direct losses of over 3 million US dollars. The investigation shows that the metal fragments originated from the broken cutting blades on the production line, exposing the insufficient sensitivity of their metal detection equipment.
Solution: High sensitivity metal detectors (such as supporting 0.3mm stainless steel particle detection) and X-ray systems are recommended for use in prefabricated vegetable production lines to simultaneously identify metal foreign objects and packaging damage issues.
Policy relevance: This incident has prompted North American pre packaged food companies to accelerate the implementation of the "Notice on Strengthening the Supervision of Pre packaged Food Safety" and strengthen the control of foreign objects in the production process.
3、 Southeast Asian nut processing plants introduce AI driven X-ray sorting technology
Technical application: In March 2025, Thai cashew nut processors adopted AI driven X-ray sorting equipment, which increased the detection rate of insect infestations from 85% to 99.9%, and achieved automatic classification of shell fragments (automatic removal of particles larger than 2mm).
Technical highlights:
Deep learning algorithms can classify and identify 12 types of quality problems with a misjudgment rate of less than 0.01%;
The density analysis module detects hollow or excessive moisture inside nuts, improving the qualification rate of exported products.
Industry impact: This case has been included in the Southeast Asian pre packaged food industry upgrade model, promoting the implementation of the "Pre packaged Food Quality Standards".
4、 Latin American meat companies upgrade their metal detection plan to respond to HACCP audits
Background and Measures: In 2025, Brazilian meat exporters will add 200 anti-interference metal detectors, which will be mainly deployed in high salt cured meat production lines. The equipment will maintain a detection accuracy of 0.4mm even in environments with a salt concentration of 15%.
Compliance support:
The data traceability module automatically generates detection logs that comply with BRCGS certification;
Remote diagnostic services reduce equipment downtime by 30% and improve export audit pass rates.
Policy Promotion: This upgrade responds to the requirements of the "Special Campaign to Crack Down on Illegal and Criminal Meat Products" and aims to prevent the risk of metal pollution.
5、 Implementation of the new national standard for metal migration limits of food contact materials in China
Regulatory content: Starting from January 2025, canned food, fast food packaging, and other products are required to undergo mandatory testing for the migration of metal ions such as lead and cadmium. Violating regulations will result in the destruction of products and a fine of up to 1 million yuan.
Technical adaptation:
The X-ray system detects the sealing of packaging to prevent excessive metal migration caused by weld cracking;
Upgrade the coating detection function of the metal detector to investigate the risk of coating peeling off on electroplated packaging cans.
Industry linkage: The new national standard complements the National Standard for Food Safety of Prefabricated Vegetables, promoting the full chain safety control of food packaging and prefabricated vegetables.
Summary: The above events highlight the dual trend of global food safety regulation tightening and technological upgrading, with metal detection, X-ray sorting, and weight inspection equipment becoming core tools for enterprise compliance and risk prevention.