Most food processors require a metal detector to comply with food safety standards and ensure complete product safety and quality. Although your metal detector may be "ticking all of the boxes", if it's not working to the optimum sensitivity specification, then metal contamination could be passing through your production line undetected.

Since 1998, when the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) took over the H1 lubricant standard from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), concerns about food safety have only increased, and taking a look inside the lubricant cabinet of a food, beverage or pharmaceutical plant it's easy to see why.