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Food Processing Plant Technology

Caption: Lamb-Weston plants worldwide are using a new technology that instantly detects blade breakage in knife grids used to cut potatoes into French fries. A broken blade is detected and replaced in less than a second, resulting in a more consistent product and less waste. Engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lamb-Weston Technical Research Center developed the detection equipment.

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