FlexXray Blog

Randy Jesberg joins the executive team to lead company through current growth and future expansion.

(Arlington, Texas, March 4, 2019) – As part of its ongoing growth, FlexXray®, the nation’s largest provider of X-ray inspection and recovery services for food companies, has added the role of president to its executive structure. Randy Jesberg, who brings 35 years of executive experience in sales, marketing, software engineering and analytics will fill the new position.

In the past year, food recalls due to biological contamination have maintained a steady presence in the news. During 2018, salmonella was the main headliner, with Centers for Disease Control reporting eight food-related outbreaks between January and July. One outbreak linked to pre-cut melons accounted for at least 70 cases in seven states and resulted in 34 hospitalizations, leading many consumers to wonder if food contamination through biological causes is on the rise.

The food chain provides almost unlimited opportunity for foreign contaminants to find their way into the food supply. Although X-ray technology and third-party inspection services can pinpoint where the contaminant is located in the food, what’s often less clear is when and where the contamination occurred.

Consumers have long been concerned about the safety of the food they eat, and the tools for keeping it safe have come a long way since the early days of our industrialized food production system .

While concern about food safety is nothing new, the concept of creating a food safety culture is a top priority in food manufacturing today. It's an initiative that has gained traction and attention on a global scale. However, as companies work to create their own food safety culture, there’s no clear-cut definition of what it means or how it should be accomplished .

FlexXray®, a world-class inspection and recovery service provider to food companies, is pleased to announce it has hired Chris Keith as Vice President of Sales and Customer Service.

With this latest investment, FlexXray continues to add to its efforts to deliver best in class responsiveness and service to its food company customers.

FlexXray is the leader in Inspection & Recovery Services dedicated to serving food companies. We are currently inspecting about 150 truckloads a month, helping over 400+ customers salvage product instead of simply throwing it away. This helps save our customers millions of dollars a year.

There are seemingly endless amounts of ways that food product can be contaminated or become unfit for sale to the public. That is why FlexXray provides a wide variety of services and inspection capabilities to its customers. We know no two incidents are the same, and each situation presents a unique problem.

The food we eat is sourced from all corners of the world, and it’s a long journey through many process steps to get from farm to fork.  Many times, multiple companies work together to create a single product or line of products. That means multiple factories, machines, processes, and work teams touch a product before it gets to market, and this complexity creates opportunities for potential problems .

Thankfully, the United States of America has one of the safest and best food supplies in the world.

Thousands of companies harvest, prepare and deliver foods of every shape, size and flavor to families across the country. We are thankful for that every day — from birthday cakes to breakfast cereals to Thanksgiving dinner.