Introduction Chips of a foreign material were found in canned tomato product at a customer’s site. A materials and food packaging expert performed a failure analysis to determine the source of these flakes. Procedure The chips were documented with a low power microscope. In addition, the materials present were evaluated using two methods. The shiny […]

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