When the doors of the Sands Expo and Convention Center open Sept. 10 for this year's edition of Pack Expo Las Vegas, a contingent from Hiram, Ohio-based Great Lakes Cheese Co. again will be among the 17,000 attendees expected for the biennial packaging equipment showcase.

Affordability was the early focus in X-ray inspection systems designed to replace metal detectors in food processor's packaging lines.

Automating its batch processing helps Langeberg Foods increase the efficiency of its operations

By automating a former rice mill, coffeemaker Cadeco Industries increased its processing accuracy and reduced its labor requirements

Ateeco, Inc., the manufacturer of Mrs. T's frozen pierogis based in Shendoah, Penn., helped Douglas Machines Corp. develop a new product which has emerged as a successful extension to the Douglas line of washing and sanitizing systems.

Its rhetoric may not set the world on fire, but risk reduction is still the surest way to safeguard our food supply

With retailers and manufacturers under pressure to implement fast flow-through, cross-docking seems like a natural. So why aren't more food industry members practicing it?

Food Engineering's fifth annual manufacturing conference covers a wide range of issues

And packaging is part of the safeguard for America's prepared foods

For the second time in 15 months, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Ia.), chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to gain Senate support for an amendment that would have forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw inspection from any meat and poultry plants that failed any microbiological standard, according to an American Meat Institute (AMI) release.