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Volume 5, Number
4

FDA
salmonella recalls continue:
More
than 2100 products to
date

View the latest updates.

Stimulus
for food producers in the offing

Food manufacturers, especially
dairy, to get a boost from the government's
efforts to stimulate the economy.

Carbohydrates:
Up to interpretation
The
label talks about carbs, but how do
consumers read it? FDA's CFSAN tests
consumer interpretation of labels.

Smithfield
restructures pork
group
Smithfield plans to
consolidate the corporate structure and
manufacturing operations of its pork
group, eliminating 1800 jobs

DOJ
pleased with abandonment of JBS/National Beef
liaison
JBS and National Beef
discontinued acquisition plans, curtailing DOJ
legal action.

Hoffa
cites NAFTA for US job
losses
Hershey Food Corp. is
closing its Reading, PA facility and moving 300
jobs to Monterey, Mexico. Teamsters' Jim Hoffa
blames NAFTA for job outsourcing.

New cost-effective metal
detector and x-ray system
Tough
times demand outstanding values, so
Mettler-Toledo Safeline has introduced a
value-priced metal detector and x-ray product
line to deliver them.  Click here
for information on our Compact and Certus metal
detectors as well as our SmartChek x-ray system.

Tighter
security in automation
A second
standard in the ISA99 series Security for
Industrial Automation and Control Systems
was approved by the American National Standards
Institute.

Real-time
process optimization market on the
rise
The real-time process
optimization and training market is expected to
increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
of 9% over the next five years.

Energy
reduction goals set
The US
Department of Energy (DOE) and the Northwest
Food Processors Association (NWFPA) set
ambitious goals to reduce energy use and carbon
emissions by 25% in the industrial sector over
the next ten years.

Industry-Sponsored White
Papers
Information you can use: A range
of topics from sustainability to pest
management, motion technologies and intelligent
automation.

FDA
still under fire for peanut butter
crisis
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA),
chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, is
demanding FDA produce food plant inspection
records showing its interaction with state
governments.

Bisphenol
A OK in packaging materials
FDA
and Health Canada's Health Products and Food
Branch hosted a meeting of representatives of US
and Canadian manufacturers and users of food
packaging materials containing bisphenol A.

GMA
releases white paper on
irradiation
The Grocery
Manufacturers Association (GMA) released
Food Irradiation: A Guide for Consumers,
Policymakers and the Media, a paper that
provides information and resources on food
irradiation.

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