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Despite the fact that bacon is a very popular commodity, bacon manufacturers have discovered that ongoing product improvement is required to sustain sales volume. Older, traditional items, such as Wiltshire bacon, retain some appeal, but production is gradually decreasing due to high production costs, and it is now more or less a specialized niche production.
Improved packaging (for example, modified environment packaging of primarily premium bacon rashers and resealable packaging), clearer labelling, and microwaveable bacon have all assisted the selling of ‘new products’ for some time.
In addition to the previously mentioned low-salt and sweet-cured bacon varieties, increased demand for variety in cured pork products has led to marinated joints (e.g., honey, chilli) and breaded lines (e.g. burgers).
Consumer desire for convenience foods has also influenced the creation of bacon products and increased the number of merchants offering ready-made or partially prepared bacon-containing dishes and dinners, such as bacon stir fry, savoury bacon rolls, bacon kebabs, bacon crunchies, and bacon burgers.
It is worth noting that these products have proven to be a cost-effective method of utilising leftover bacon after slicing and boning. Snack goods, sandwich fillings, and pizza toppings are examples of successful bacon products in recent years.
The Global Bacon strip inspection system market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
X-ray systems for packaged meat and poultry meet the changing needs of the industry. The ever-increasing diversity of packaged meat and poultry products presents a number of issues, many of which are addressed by inline inspection devices.
Chubs and clip closed items can have pollutants such as bone, as well as mineral stone, glass, metal fragments, and other foreign materials, detected using x-ray technology. Inspection systems can find “blowouts” from overfilling ground meat and can spot missing, excess, or damaged clips in chubs.
Inspection systems are used to check total and zonal weight, assure the presence or absence of meal components, and discover and reject contaminants in trays, cartons, boxes, pouches, and other ready meal formats as the demand for ready meals rises.
Eagle’s inspection equipment and software are constantly updated to assist processors in meeting consumers’ expectations for the safety and quality of packaged meat and poultry products. Eagle, for example, has just released its next-generation Material Discrimination X-ray (MDX) technology.
NexGen MDX, which was originally designed for poultry applications, is currently the most powerful inspection technology available for detecting bone fragments in chicken breasts, thanks to picture resolution three to four times more than current capabilities and new advanced image processing algorithms. Eagle’s proprietary SimulTask PRO image processing software is used to power NexGen MDX technology.
Furthermore, Eagle now provides item-level traceability. One recent example is the Eagle Pack 240 HC, which connects inspection data to a unique identity printed on each item.
The machine is intended for easy sanitation in tough situations such as meat and poultry processing plants. This device can inspect fresh or frozen items in a range of packaging styles, including chubs, overwrapped trays, pouches, cartons, tubs, cups, and plastic containers.
Aside from foreign body detection, the Pack 240 HC performs critical quality checks such as mass measurement, component count, and identification of missing/broken pieces.
Furthermore, with item-level traceability, rejected photos can be linked to product barcodes. This means that if a product is ever returned to the manufacturer, a check can be done using the bar code to see the actual x-ray image of the object in question.
