Ensuring the safety, edibility, conformity and clear traceability of its end products is a major challenge for the food and packaging industry. A total of more than 30 industry representatives recently discussed how to address this in order to supply faultless, clearly marked and compatible goods and to achieve certification in accordance with the International Featured Standard Food (IFS Food) at the HEUFT TeKnowledge event in Bremen.
In particular the synergies resulting from the 40 years of experience gained by HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH in in-line inspection, product tracking and fault rejection and the know-how of SIMACO GmbH in inkjet coding provided unexpected findings: parent company and subsidiary provide the right complete solution for the clean application and reliable verification of markings such as best before and expiry dates, lot and batch numbers or barcodes and data matrix codes from a single source.