METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING FULL CONTAINERS

A method for inspecting filled containers for foreign bodies, comprising: providing a planar illuminating device designed to emit radiation which radiates through a container to be examined; providing a detection device designed to detect the radiation which was emitted by the illuminating device and has radiated through the container and to create a photograph of the container on the basis of the detected radiation; providing an evaluation device designed to evaluate the image created by the detection device; wherein the detection device is aimed, at an acute angle α relative to the horizontal, at the bottom region of the container to be inspected, and wherein a foreign body on the container bottom is recognized as a local disturbance in the imaging photograph.