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WITH OPTICAL SORTING TECHNOLOGIES, PET FOOD CAN BE SAFE AND FAULT-FREE I n today’s increasingly competitive market, pet food manufacturers must ensure their products are safe, fault-free, and contain exactly what they claim. This means eradicating all traces of foreign materials and crosscontamination, and guarding against the naturally-occurring poison aflatoxin. Not easy, you might say - but now that TOMRA Food has brought its world-class sorting technologies to the pet food industry, it can be done. All of TOMRA’s pet food sorting solutions are speciallytailored applications of technologies originally
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designed and developed to ensure the purity of food for human consumption. All are so accurate in their detection work, and so precise in removing unwanted materials from the product stream, that they minimize food loss, maximize yields, and can ensure attainment of pre-set protein levels. All eliminate the traditional needs for manual inspection or rework. And all have proved capable in the toughest working conditions - wet, dry, dusty - of running reliably and performing consistently for 24 hours per day and seven days per week.
The TOMRA machine bestsuited to pet food applications is the Nimbus BSI+, a highcapacity free-fall optical sorter. This combines laser detection of foreign materials with TOMRA’s proprietary Biometric Signature Identification (BSI+) technology, so that it is able to detect materials not only according to shape, color, and size, but also by their biometric characteristics. In addition to
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