Fortress helps farmers find needle in potato sack

The UK harvests 5.31 million tonnes of potatoes annually, worth £703m at farm gate, so ensuring crops are free of metal contaminants is essential to any thriving grower.

In the last decade, a number of crop processors, as an added safety precaution, have installed bulk metal detection systems after washing farmed produce and before packing into sacks.

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