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What Are Metal Detector Test Standards?
July 11, 2019
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Down to the Basics
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What Our Customers Are Sayng

What Our Customers Are Sayng About the Regal Team

What Our Customers Are Saying…

It’s always gratifying when customers share their appreciation for your service and product quality.  Here’s just a sample of what we hear all the time…

Business Owners

Over the years I have referred several of my clients to you because I did research and found your company to have the best prices, quality, and traceability.
— Business Owner

When you run a business, you discover that it’s the people on your staff that make it a success. I’ve known the Testrods.com at Regal Packaging for some time, and everyone has been very professional. I appreciate the high standard that Regal Packaging brings to the industry. Lead times are always quick, and the free certificates are a real bonus. Regal understands the needs of the food industry and do a wonderful job helping us guarantee product safety.
— George Pecenica
City Foods

“As a business owner, I fully understand that it’s the people in a company that make it a success. When I have had contact with the Testrods.com team, everyone has been very professional and helpful. This speaks volumes about the type of company Regal Packaging Services is. I have been very pleased with the quick turnaround time, the complimentary certificates and the depth of knowledge in the Testrods.com team. They understand the needs of the food industry and do a great job helping ensure product safety.“
— Frank Urquides
Business Owner
Quality Control Professional

“When you run a business, you learn quickly that it’s the people you hire that make it a success. As I’ve dealt with the Testrods.com team, everyone has been very professional. I appreciate the type of company Regal Packaging is. The turnaround time is always quick and the free certificates are easy to obtain. They understand the ins and outs of the food industry and do a terrific job helping us guarantee product safety.“
— Dennis Grazian
Business Owner
QA Consultant

The team at Testrods.com has always been able to meet and exceed all our need for a wide variety of test pieces, both in their standard product line as well as their customized solutions. No one knows the ins and outs of the food industry as well as Testrods.com and the rest of the crew at Regal Packaging Services. Their commitment to providing quality, certified product is unsurpassed in the industry. We’re ccertain they can meet the needs of any quality control process and back it up with honest, friendly, personal customer service.
— Barak Zeichner
Manager
TMI Barak Ltd. Israel

I have been working with Test Rods (Regal Pack) for about 5 years and they have always gone over and beyond the norm to help us get what we needed. Particularly Brian Kiel has been extremely helpful to in designing customized test materials that would fit our process. He and his team does this in a amazingly quick turn-around time. They understand the time constraints we work on and get us the customized, quality product that we need in no time. I will definitely recommend Test Rods (Regal Pack) for your X-ray and Metal Detector test material needs.
— Annamalai Suri
Regulatory and Audit Compliance Manager
Ed Miniat

Quality Assurance Professionals

In the food industry, companies that are able to help us solve the challenges inherent to our application are hard to find. The sales staff and production team at Testrods.com have worked with us to find just the right solution to meet our needs. We have been very pleased with the service provided by Testrods.com. Everyone is very friendly and supportive. Recently we had a problem and needed customized test pieces. We were able to find a solution for our specific application and the Testrods.com provided it within a very quick turnaround. The test pieces are the same high quality as all their standard products and comes with the same certification.
— José Morales
Manager Food Safety | Quality Assurance

Custom Order Customers

I received the custom testrods. Thank you for the quick turn-around. I am still waiting for quotes from some of your competitors. I am not used to such high level of service.
— Joseph Kotarkski
Equipment Development

I had Regal Packaging Services make a custom order test card for an x-ray machine used in our plant, which was able to fulfill all of our expectations as a safety check for our plant. Which such good results that I was able to get from it I would recommend it to anybody using x-ray machines for food purposes. Any questions about the test pieces, they were able to answer me and provided samples. I appreciate the quality and timeliness of work that Regal Packaging Services had done for us. In sum it was a pleasure to do business them.
— Susana Morales
X-ray Tech
Nestle Stouffers

I just received the delivery. These are perfect. Thank you again for your insight and incredible customer service.
— Daniel Lee
Application Engineer – Inspection

Our facility searched through multiple vendors looking for a test standard to meet our specific needs without success. We saw that the Testrods.com division of Regal Packaging had custom products available so we contacted their customer support team with our requirements. The staff at Testrods.com approached the challenge very enthusiastically and found a solution to our unique process. They created the custom product very quickly and with high quality. Thank you very much for supporting our facility.
– Luis Tapia
Manufacturing Plant Engineer
Olam Spices

Assistants and Tech Managers

I greatly appreciate your assistance with this. You guys take amazing care of us and its so greatly appreciated! If you could just send tracking as soon as its available, we will let you know when this has been received. Sorry to put you through all this trouble. You guys are rockstars.
— Executive Assistant

Thank you so much for your quick response! I really appreciate it because I recently had a horrible experience with another vendor! High five to you and your team!
— Technical Services Manager

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Floatable Thermoform Test Cards

Some applications involve large tubs, vats, or some other type of product travel where it would be nice to have a test piece that floats. Once again, our thermoform cards provide the simplest solution. We simply insert some type of structure that forces the thermoform card to retain air, which, of course, is what makes it float. We have also manufactured floating rods, which are more difficult because there is less space to close in enough air to make the rod float but is doable.

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Chip Clip

We took an ordinary plastic “chip clip” as defined by the customer and embedded the contaminant into the clip. The clip can be attached to the product on the line without damaging or opening the product for testing purposes.

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Bone Simulate

Bone is a difficult contaminant to find because it can vary widely based on the size, age, and calcium content (as well as feed used) of the animal. After working with several customers, Regal Packaging Services offers Pork, Beef and Chicken Bone Simulate. We have a small range of sizes at a variety of depths to simulate whatever you might expect to find in the product. Our recommendation (assuming your x-ray has visual display) is always to start with a multi-card. Using a multi-card gives you an easy way to test several sizes and depths to determine what matches the bone you’re using. Once you’ve made a comparison, testing the card against the bone you’re looking for, you can purchase a card with a single contaminant for regular testing.

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10mmd x 25mml Pill

This small pill shaped test piece is used in a system with a vacuum tube that shoots the test piece through the aperture and returns it to the “home” base. Your system may never be like it, but the point is that we can make a customized solution no matter how unusual or impossible it might seem.

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Thermoform Multi-Cards

As you may have seen in some of the other thermoform card descriptions, we can put nearly as many seeds as you can imagine on a single card. Pictured here you will find a wide variety of configurations and contaminants. Just let us know your specs: size of the card (up to 8” x 8”) along with size and type contaminant(s) and we’ll get you a quote as quickly as possible. Working with a multi-card is especially helpful when you are looking for multiple types of contaminants or when you want to determine what size of the same contaminant you are able to detect. In that event, once the size is chosen, you can order individual card(s) for regular, standard inspection and detection.

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48inch Testrod

There are a wide range of applications that require a test piece much longer than our standard 5” or 6” Testrods. We can make up to 3/8” x 34” or 1/2” x 34” rigid test pieces which can then be extended well beyond that length with a “handle” made of acetal cylinder larger than the 3/8” or 1/2” extension. In the photos, we used a 1” x 24” cylinder handle with a 3/8” x 24” inch extension.

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12x0.375 with Pointed End Test Pieces

Test pieces can be made in a variety of sizes and given a pointed end in applications that require the contaminant (metal) to be inserted into a food package such as sugar or some other soft packaged food product. This allows the metal to reach the center of the aperture.

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Double End Whips

Double-End Test Whips are also available, with metal in both ends. One consideration is to make certain that the whip is long enough to keep the metal on the non-testing side of the whip outside the metal free zone of your detector. If you insert, for instance one end of a whip with 2.0mm and 3.0mm Ferrous, you need to make certain that the 2.0mm metal doesn’t affect the detection of the 3.0mm metal (and vice versa). If the 3.0mm metal is inside the metal free zone, then the detector will be reacting to the 2.0 as well as the 3.0 as if they were combined.

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Laminate Multi-NonFerrous Card

Multi-seed laminate test cards are designed for seeds 4.0mm or less. Multi-cards are useful in x-ray inspection to determine what sizes and types of contaminants your system can achieve. They can be especially useful in temperate environments and applications. If your application is rugged or wet, or your standards are larger, we recommend our thermoform multi-cards.

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Package Simulate - Top View

We can simulate a variety of packaging in an application where you need the test piece to mimic what is traveling down the production line. In this case, we manufactured a clear “package” with the seed inside. With this method, the customer is able to reject the container appropriately, and, in the event the package is not rejected, it is easily seen by the line worker for manual removal.

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Candy Bar Simulate

There are two types of “candy bars” pictured here – one similar to a flat candy bar and the other in a custom, near perfect copy of a candy bar. Since we’re now able to produce many variations using colored material, the copy was made in red (Fe), green (NFe) and blue (SS 316). We have the equipment to accomplish nearly anything you can imagine, and these kinds of designs are proof positive.

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Nugget Test Piece

Need a test piece that looks and handles like chicken nugget? We can do it. Interestingly enough, in this situation, our first version for the customer left too much “void” in the hole where the metal was placed. Given the sensitivity the customer system was using, the void had the effect of causing false positives. We were able to minimize that hole and supply the test piece with almost no void. It’s an example of how we can work with you before, during and after manufacturing to ensure all the specifications were met.

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Mini Acetal Card

Our standard acetal card is 2 1/4"x3 3/8,” but if needed, we can cut that size down to as small as 1 1/4” x 1 1/4” (with limited engraving). If a larger card or a card with multiple seeds is needed, see our Custom Shape-Size Blocks and Tablets.

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Burger Simulate with Blue Contaminant

This distinctive test piece was created to mimic an actual hamburger patty. The customer supplied photos of the raw product, which we were able to reproduce and then we placed blue glove contaminant. Using this configuration, the customer was able to determine what size piece the vision scanning system could detect with the raw burger as the background. Had they simply used a blank card with the glove, the system could easily have achieved contaminant rejection, but they needed to be sure the system could “see” the blue against the product itself.

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Ceramic - 100 seed Card

A card with 100 seeds in a 10x10 configuration is used to place beneath whole chickens on a production line. This gives the x-ray system operator the ability not just to see IF the equipment can detect the metal in the card, but also WHERE the equipment can detect it. If there is a problem, the operator (or company) can make any changes necessary to achieve the end goal – safe chicken in this case. This card really highlights another valuable facet of our thermoform cards.

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Sugar Block Ferrous Top

In this scenario, a company processing sugar needed to have a “bag” simulated with the same weight in order to accurately fall through the reject mechanism. A lighter test piece had the risk of passing over the reject mechanism.

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1/2" Cubes

Our standard cubes are 1” and 1.5,” but we can also manufacture other sizes if needed. The cubes shown here are 1/2" in dimensions. Cubes can be helpful in applications where a ball or cylinder may bounce or roll away during testing, making their retrieval difficult, or, in some cases, present a hazard to the product or production equipment.

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Testrods with Stop Side

This is a test piece that is dropped into a bottle. It’s designed so that the metal appears in the center of the aperture when testing the metal detector. In addition, the round stop makes the test piece easily removable after testing.

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Hexagons

Hexagonal Shaped test pieces can be very useful in places where a cylinder or ball might roll or bounce around a production floor whether dropped by a line worker or ejection from a reject mechanism. Hexagons are similar in weight to the 1inch cylinders without having the smooth, rounded cylinder edge.

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Ultra Thin Rod

Our customer in this plant needed a test piece with a thickness less than 5.0mm. Because we have the capacity to customize sizes and shapes, we were able to mill down a product that met their specifications. That’s always our goal, meeting the specs you need for your product, testing environment and contaminants.

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Blocks with Bevelled Edge

We can custom cut nearly any shape needed to fit your application. At times, you may want the test piece to look like your product in its raw form or after packaging. In many instances, we can supply the standard colors for ferrous (red), non-ferrous (green) or stainless steel 316 (blue) used in food and other industries. If your project is larger than 1” in thickness, we can always manufacture in white and color the letters.

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Small Card

This flat tablet or card with multiple seeds and a diagonal configuration is used for x-ray inspection. The various contaminants are different densities and represent the type contaminants that might appear in the end product. We can manufacture a broad array of sizes and thicknesses with as many contaminants as needed for testing your x-ray inspection equipment.

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3in x 1in Puck

Sometimes a cylinder or “puck” is needed to mimic product shape moving down the line. We’re not limited to any particular shape. Pucks can range from 3/4" all the way up to 8.” So, if you’re running hamburgers or some other puck shaped product, this may be the solution you need.