Hebel said food manufacturers face an increasingly tough set of regulatory standards and surveillance of their food safety programs.
"It's pretty obvious, you can see this in the increased number of recalls in recent years, those are probably as much a result of this increase surveillance activity as it is actual increases in numbers of contamination events."
Hebel is responsible for developing the fat analysis business, directing the advancement of factory floor automated imaging solutions, using camera, laser and x-ray.
He said to be globally competitive, food manufacturers around the world have no choice but to comply with the relevant regulatory standards.
"Increasingly, production lines have inspection systems on them that never had inspection systems on them before and these systems look at, you know, all of production going by and so they catch things that just were never caught before.
"At the same time there's much more production on these lines and much higher volume so the combination of increased detection sensitivity and higher volumes of product lead to, you know, to more of these things being found."
