Magnetic Resonance Imaging Provides 100% Inspection

Sterility of aseptically packaged food products is obviously extremely important, and the most effective method of making sure that each container is sterile is to test each container.

However, testing each container for presence of bacteria by plating and incubation, measurement of pH change, or ATP bioluminescence testing takes time, effort, and money—and destroys the product. Thus, 100% inspection by these methods represents 100% destruction. Testing of product therefore generally involves sta…