System and method for allowing a quality check of sausage-shaped products

A method for allowing a quality check of sausage-shaped products, wherein the sausage-shaped products are produced with a system which comprises a filling tube for feeding filling material in a feeding direction into a tubular packing casing provided on the filling tube and closed at the front end by a closure means, a clipping machine having a displacer unit with at least two pairs of displacer elements for gathering the filled tubular packing casing and for providing a plait-like portion which is at least approximately free from filling material, a clipping unit for applying two closure means to the plait-like portion of the tubular packing casing, a first closure means for closing an actually filled tubular packing casing for forming a sausage-shaped product to be produced presently, and a second closure means for closing the front end of the tubular packing casing provided on the filling tube and forming the following sausage-shaped product to be produced next, and a feeding unit for feeding flexible suspension elements to the clipping unit for being attached to sausage-shaped products by means of the first or second closure means, wherein the feeding unit includes a positioning device for positioning the flexible suspension element to be attached to the sausage-shaped product, and wherein the sausage-shaped products are fed out of the clipping machine by a transportation unit for transporting the sausage-shaped product out of the clipping machine to a storing device,

• the method comprises the steps of:
• providing at least one sausage-shaped product,
• providing a discharge device in the region between the clipping unit and the transportation unit, and
• by-passing the transportation unit by at least one of the sausage-shaped products, and discharging the bypassed sausage-shaped product out of the clipping machine.