ABSTRACT
Pursuant to 21CFR110.80(b)8 (“Effective measures shall be taken to protect against the inclusion of metal or other extraneous material in food. Compliance with this requirement may be accomplished by using sieves, traps, magnets, electronic metal detectors, or other suitable effective means.”), all products produced in a food manufacturing or processing facility will be subjected to some form of metal detection or exclusion. In most plants metal can be introduced through several means, such as from suppliers, in raw materials, from the manufacturing process, from metal on metal, and from in-plant carelessness, maintenance, or employee action. The fact of the matter is that with the vast quantity of metal in the operation, the source ingredients, and human error, sooner or later a piece of metal will show up in the product.
