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Food metal detector from China

Sensitivity is quoted for a test ball in the middle of an empty aperture, while wet, salty or chilled product makes its own signal and stainless steel is the hardest metal to see, so only the figure on your product counts.

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

Food metal detector

01

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price
01

Aperture height

A smaller aperture finds smaller pieces. Size it to your tallest pack with little room to spare.

02

Product effect

Ask how the unit learns your product, whether it runs several frequencies, and how many product settings it stores.

03

Fail-safe design

Reject confirmation, a locked bin, bin-full sensor and a stop when air pressure drops. Retail codes often ask for these.

04

Reject type

Air jet for light packs, pusher or flap for heavy ones. Ask which suits your pack weight.

05

Washdown and belt

Ask for the ingress rating and belt material if open product touches it.

02

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

03

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require thisA pass looks like
Pass Fe, non-Fe and stainless test pieces inside your product.Every piece rejected at your required size, on every pass of a counted series.
Run clean product for an agreed period.No false rejects in the whole period.
Fill the reject bin and cut air.Line stops or alarms each time.

04

The documents that must arrive with it.

The one people forget. The routine test log template, since auditors check verification records, not the brochure.

05

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged
01

Your pack is aluminium foil or a foil tray.

X-ray inspection, or a ferrous-only detector for foil.

02

Loose product falls into a bagger.

A free-fall or pipeline detector before the bag.

06

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

07

Related machines.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Packaging page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European food metal detector?+

The coil and signal processing decide performance on wet product. Test both with your product and test pieces.

Food metal detector CE documentation?+

A Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, with 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.

What about food contact?+

If open product rides the belt, Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 applies to the belt.

What is on the inspection checklist?+

The three tests above, and test pieces certified for size.

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