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Volume 5, Number
11

BPA
is safe ... or is it?
Just when
the worldwide discussion about the use of BPA in
food and beverage packaging seemed to be over,
negative comments are now emerging in the US.
Some state and local govenrments aren't so sure
BPA is safe, and new test results reveal
problems.

Industry
associations weigh in on FDA
overhaul
A proposed FDA overhaul
would give FDA mandatory recall authroity
and require processor inspections and electronic
traceability systems.

Study
says mid-tier products losing market share to
value and premium
options
Today's consumer market
for food and beverage is causing processors to
cope with lower prices and rethink their
business goals.

Yesterday's
chip bags become today's reusable
tote
Frito-Lay, in conjunction
with an up-cycler, TerraCycle, is asking
consumers to recycle their chip bags, decreasing
the detrimental impact on the environment.

AIB claims mass media left out important
information
CEO James Munyon,
tells his side of the story about the Peanut
Corporation of America fiasco and AIB's
role.

32nd Annual Plant Construction
Survey
Green is the color of
savings--and sustainability--when utilities are
conserved and production is peaked.
View Food Engineering's 2009 Construction
Survey. (PDF)

Food Automation & Manufacturing
Conference report
Best practices
and benchmarking, innovation and execution,
sustainability and cost reduction--conferees
tackled today's key manufacturing issues.

The flexible facility: Yoga for
manufacturers
To meet consumers'
changing tastes and diversity demands, today's
food and beverage plants must be
flexible.

Industry-sponsored white
papers
Information you can use:
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
(Part 3 of 3) - Food Plant Confirms
White Rust
Control (Nalco)

ConAgra Foods confirmed that
three employees were found dead inside the
company's plant in Garner, NC, where an
explosion occurred around 11:30 a.m., June 10,
2009.

Cargill opened a new plant
dedicated to chocolate coatings and fillings in
Deventer, The Netherlands.

Danone Waters of America
appointed two new vice presidents.
Jerome Goure joins as vice
president, marketing, North America, and
Steve Finn joins the company as
vice president, retail sales, US.

Campbell Soup Company's
board of directors elected William
Perez, former chief executive officer
of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, to the board.

Tate & Lyle appointed
Javed Ahmed as its new chief
executive.

Endress+Hauser has invested
more than $18 million in the expansion of its
Greenwood, IN plant.

More
People, Plant and Industry News

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