X-ray Inspection Systems for Quality Assurance of Pharmaceutical Products

April 22, 2009Mettler-Toledo Safeline x-ray inspection equipment is designed to be a powerful quality control tool in an HACCP Plan. The systems automatically “look inside” the final sealed pharmaceutical package to confirm that all components are present while also identifying contaminated or damaged products. This ultimate inspection capability is not available with either metal detectors or vision systems and allows:

• Inspection of final sealed foil, plastic or card containers or blister-packs
• Detection of metal, glass and high density rubber or plastic contaminants
• Discovery of missing and damaged products or doses even in multiple card stacks
• Under/over fill inspection of liquid products

We can inspect virtually any packaged nutraceutical product including blister packs, metal foils, boxes, pouches, bags, glass bottles and plastic bottles. We can also inspect products while they are still in a bandoleer before being cut into individual packages.

Safeline x-ray inspection systems use low energy x-rays that are fully contained to the highest standards in the industry in order to protect plant workers and leave inspected products unaffected. Every Safeline x-ray system is tested by an approved and certified auditor before it leaves our manufacturing plant.

Mettler-Toledo Safeline x-ray inspection equipment is reliable and easy to use with operator-intuitive touch pads or touch screen interfaces, automatic set-up and password-protected security tiers. It is OPC-compliant and designed to connect with manufacturing data management systems for real-time and historic image and data capture/analysis. Quality assurance personnel can run diagnostic routines from a remote location.

Mettler-Toledo Safeline is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mettler-Toledo Inc., a global supplier of precision instruments with sales and service locations in 37 countries. The Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection Division, including the companies HI-SPEED and SAFELINE, is the world’s leading supplier of in-line checkweighers, metal detectors, and x-ray inspection systems. Industries including food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical chemical and personal care use our solutions to continuously improve the quality of their products and improve the efficiency of their manufacturing and packaging processes.

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