Just a couple
of incidents in which broken needles turned up in children’s
clothing during the early 1990s particularly one in which a
baby’s face was scratched - very quickly alerted many
retailers in Britain to the potential danger caused by
broken needles left behind in garments. The risks this
entailed, legal and financial, as well as loss of
reputation, were sufficient to convince them of the need for
implementing forrmal needle detection procedures which did
not rely on human intervention alone, but also rely on
Needle Detection Machine.