If consumers only knew what went into food safety, they might think they'd slipped into a James Bond movie.
At Legendary Baking in Chaska, the pies it makes for Bakers Square restaurants and local grocery stores are X-rayed to make sure there's nothing inside but pie. The completely automated machines X-ray a pie and use a computer to analyze the image in a second or less, then eject it from the assembly line if it appears to contain a foreign object.
That's not unusual in the food industry, where products have long been subjected to X-ray machines, metal detectors or special weighing devices to weed out objects such as metal or plastic parts that might fall off an assembly line.
These safeguards help companies comply with federal rules requiring that food be monitored for quality at "hazard analysis critical control points," such as the end of assembly lines.
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