Evaluation of blue light hand-held scanners for carcase zero tolerance defects
Research has shown a handheld, blue-light scanner can add value as an additional quality assurance verification in red meat processing when layered on existing contamination controls.
A project funded by AMPC, run in conjunction with JBS Australia, evaluated the Veritide BluLine BL20 as it was deployed in five southern Australia processing plants covering beef, sheep and lamb operations.
The central finding was that the Veritide BluLine BL20 could add value as an additional QA verification aid in an operating Australian red meat processing environment, but its realised value was dominated by non-technical factors — leadership, integration, training and labour — rather than by the underlying optical performance of the device.
At the sites where senior plant leadership mandated use and where use was embedded in formal task descriptions, the device was sustained as a working element of the QA routine. At sites where the device was left to informal adoption, utilisation lapsed under normal operational pressures.
