Packaging Technologies & Inspection (PTI)

Seal-Scan™

Seal-Scan™ 525

Abrasion

Description

An abrasion is a scratch through any of the layers of the package. A serious abrasion penetrates the foil or the inner polypropylene layers. A minor abrasion is also called a scuff. It will only affect the outer layer(s) of the pouch. The foil layer is not affected.

Common Cause

The pouches were manually scraped on the retort racks, other equipment or other pouches. Plastic was left on the sealing bar from previous sealing