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The article focuses on the efforts of researchers to fix the problem of Vidalia onions in Georgia. It notes that before onions get to consumers, growers and packers deal with problems such as disease, storage and handling. One goal of the team is to detect infections and rots that hide in onions. To detect these problems, the team wants to develop an onion sorting machine using X-ray and hyperspectral imaging. Onions that have fewer rots can generate more income in 13 counties in Georgia.

Features the Safeline X-ray inspection equipment at Suzanna's Kitchen Inc., a food processing company in Duluth, Georgia. Concept of the technology; Combination of high-resolution X-ray inspection technology with innovative hardware and high-performance image processing software; Significance of the technology for quality control.