HIGH LEVEL METAL DETECTOR FOR FOOD GRADE SAFETY

If you work in food processing, you’ll know that contamination of food by metal shards from broken machinery is a major safety issue within the industry. A quality food metal detector is therefore an essential part of any processing and packaging line. After all, the risk isn’t just to your reputation and position as a manufacturer, but also to the health and safety of your customers.

If hygiene and safety are priorities of yours – as they must be, since you’re required to carry out HACCP-compliant metal detection on the products you supply in Australia – A&D Weighing’s EZI-Check metal detector is the ideal solution, helping to ensure the high standards of your production processes.

EZI-Check Metal Detectors For Food Processing

The EZI-Check metal detector for food processing provides a high level of accuracy to 0.3mm for FE and 0.8 for SUS, thereby helping you to deliver safe consumer products. Designed to meet HACCP standards, the EZI-Check provides the quality protection you need to keep your production line running smoothly.

Features EZI-Check Food Metal Detector

The advanced Japanese design of the EZI-Check utilises the company’s cutting edge Digital Signal Processing capability. This makes it a suitable metal detector for food processing in a variety of industrial environments. Some of its features include:

• HACCP-compliant design
• Protection from dust and water to IP65 Standards
• Easy operation, with a 7 inch colour touch panel
• Automatic sensitivity function
• Variable belt speed of 10-60m/min
• Hygienic design and suitable for operation in a wet environment
• Standard Ethernet i/o allowing easy networking via LAN
• Inspection history function recording up to 100 inspection results
• Simple maintenance and cleaning with a detachable conveyor belt

If you’re looking for a powerful, effective and easy to use food metal detector, the EZI-Check ticks every box.

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Gauss Meter GM2 by Alpha-Lab

A Gauss meter, also known as a magnetometer, is a device used to measure the strength and direction of a magnetic field. Small, hand-held versions are available and the user can carry it with him to monitor magnetic fields as he walks. The device may also be referred to as an electromagnetic field detector, or EMF detector for short. The device has several scientific uses and is popular among paranormal researchers.

Two types of Gauss meters exist: scalar and vector. The scalar Gauss meters measures the strength of the magnetic field present in the area around the device. The vector Gauss meters measures the direction of the magnetic field depending on where the device is and which direction it’s pointing. A Gauss meter may combine both of these technologies.

Using a Gauss meter is a fairly simple process. The screen provides a reading of how strong the magnetic field is and may indicate the direction it’s coming from. If the person holding it walks closer to the magnetic source the reading will rise; it will lower if the person walks away from the source. Multiple sources can create conflicting readings, however, and may require more advanced technology to determine where the sources are coming from.

Changes in the magnetic field depend on where the user is and the strength of the Earth’s magnetosphere in that particular area. The sun interacts with areas of the magnetosphere differently and the strength of the signal can fluctuate with the sun’s activity. Certain natural materials, such as specific rocks or rock formations, may also interfere with the Gauss meter’s reading.

 

Today, Gauss meters serve a number of uses. They are a valuable tool in space exploration for learning more about the magnetism of foreign planets and other bodies in space. Here on Earth, they can detect certain landscape formations and for this reason are used in geophysics to get an idea of how the land is laid out. Certain magnetometers can also detect hidden items such as shipwrecks and are at work in metal detectors used both by beachcombers hunting for lost items in the sand and by security teams to detect guns or other weapons.

The magnetometers are gaining popularity in cell phones as well. A phone utilizing this technology can point out directions to the user much like a compass does. It also may be used to let the user interact with the phone without actually touching it. Though still in the beginning stages of development, a magnet can be used to interact with the magnetometer in the phone. The magnetometer can pick up information about how the user is turning or moving her hand and then the phone responds to these movements.

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NEODYMIUM MAGNET TRAP FOR FOOD GRADE SAFETY

Grate Magnets offer excellent protection from metal contamination. As product flows over the magnetic tubes, captured metal contaminants are pushed to the underside of the tube where they are now out of contact with the product flow preventing wash off back in to the clean material.
Grate Magnets are placed directly in the product stream allowing free flowing products to come in direct contact with the grate. Grate Magnets are typically constructed with one inch diameter magnetic tubes mounted on two inch centers in a frame. The length and width can be fabricated to any dimension, usually in two inch increments.
Grate Magnets offer excellent protection from metal contamination. As product flows over the magnetic tubes, captured metal contaminants are pushed to the underside of the tube where they are now out of contact with the product flow preventing wash off back in to the clean material.

Cleaning is achieved by removing the Grate Magnet and wiping the magnetic tubes clean. It is important to keep in mind that by placing a Grate Magnet in the product flow, you will be reducing fifty percent of your flow through area. Grate Magnets should be sized so they do not impede the flow of product.

 

Magnetically engineered to provide a full range of ferrous metal separation from free-flowing products with gravity fall processing applications. Puritan’s designs offer maximum capture, control and protection of equipment while improving product purity. For maximum protection, locate in critical areas where capture is possible, most needed, and where removal for cleaning is feasible. Grates are most effective when the product is dry, free flowing and does not bridge between the magnetic tubes (Puritan also offers other magnetic designs for those more difficult applications). Select a Magnetic Grate at least twice the cross sectional area of the incoming spout opening and discharge. When in doubt, phone Raja Magnet for engineering assistance.

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NEODYMIUM MAGNET BAR FOR FOOD GRADE SAFETY

Neodymium magnets are very powerful, much more powerful than magnets most people are familiar with and need to be handled with proper care. The magnetic fields from these magnets can affect each other from more than 12 inches away. Please note that these magnets are fragile. Even though they are coated with a tough protective nickel plating, do not allow them to snap together with their full force or they may chip, break, and possibly send small pieces of metal flying on impact. Our magnets can easily bruise fingers and the larger ones can break finger bones and even crush hands as they attempt to connect together.

Always wear protective eye wear or safety goggles when handling the magnets. Keep magnets away from any magnetic based storage devices such as desktop or laptop computers, hard drives, floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, or credit cards. A distance of at least 12? should be kept between magnets and these items at all times. Neodymium magnets are not suitable for small children to play with. If small magnets are ingested, they can connect together in parts of the digestive system, blocking proper operation and cause death. These magnets should only be handled under strict adult supervision.

Neodymium magnets will PERMANENTLY lose their magnetic properties if they are heated above 180° Fahrenheit (80° C). All Neodymium magnets are not created equal! You may find ‘inexpensive’ Neodymium magnets for sale from time to time. The phrase “buyer beware” certainly applies here. Our magnets are at least 10.000 gauss or higher. We always try and stock the most powerful magnet available for any particular size & shape. There are plenty of inexpensive Neodymium magnets available… but they have just a small fraction of the magnetic power that our magnets have.

Like always, you get what you pay for.

 

 Magnet Safety

Neodymium magnets must be handled with care to avoid personal injury and damage to the magnets. Fingers and other body parts can get severely pinched between two attracting magnets. Bones can be broken by larger magnets.

Neodymium magnets are brittle. They can peel, crack or shatter if allowed to slam together. Eye protection should be worn when handling these magnets, because shattering magnets can launch pieces at great speeds and sparks may be produced. The strong magnetic fields of neodymium magnets can also damage magnetic media such as floppy disks, credit cards, magnetic I.D. cards, cassette tapes, video tapes or other such devices. Electronics such televisions, VCRs, computer monitors and other CRT displays can also be damaged.

Children should not be allowed to play with neodymium magnets as they can be dangerous. Small magnets pose a choking hazard and should never be swallowed or inserted into any part of the body.

Never allow neodymium magnets near a person with a pacemaker or similar medical device. The strong magnetic fields of the magnets can affect the operation of such devices. Neodymium magnets are brittle and prone to chipping and cracking. Machining, drilling or other mechanical alterations are not recommended.

Neodymium magnets will begin to lose their magnetic properties if heated above 176° F (82° C).

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