Patent ID: 8538714

Claim:
A method for testing the integrity of a consumable product that is a food or a beverage in a sealed container, the method comprising: sealing the consumable product in the container; determining a plurality of the consumable product features while sealed in the container through the use of measurements for a plurality of differing physical properties directly associated with the consumable product by a plurality of differing inspection device types; standardizing results of the plurality of the measurements for the differing physical properties of the consumable product to respective reference values that are the measurement values of the differing physical properties for a defect-free specimen of the consumable product; totaling up deviations of the standardized measurement results from the respective reference values to obtain a correlated result for the consumable product that is based on the combined measurements for the differing physical properties; and obtaining an indication for the product status on the basis of comparing the correlated result to a threshold value and producing a signal or alarm if the correlated result exceeds the threshold value.