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Volume 5, Number
18

JBS to purchase majority equity in Pilgrim's
Pride
As part of the ongoing
Chapter 11 activities, Pilgrim's Pride has
agreed to be purchased by Brazilian-based JBS, a
worldwide beef producer and exporter.

ConAgra Mills implements new forecasting
system
ConAgra Mills, industry
supplier of flour, optimizes sales operations,
including its demand forecasting system.

Organic Trade Association calls GE flax seed
foul
The Organic Trade
Organization (OTA) in Canada has called the
recent discovery of genetically-engineered (GE)
contaminated flax seed in Europe
unacceptable.

New
Mettler-Toledo Movie Demonstrates
Product
Inspection Capabilities

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed and Mettler-Toledo
Safeline have introduced a new 3-minute movie on
their checkweigher, metal detector and x-ray
inspection capabilities that will boost your
profits and protect your brand.
View
the
movie.

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Food processor rolls out its own open-source
ERP system
Peerless Foods needed
a customized ERP system, but wasn't about to
spend millions on third-party software, nor
was it willing to give up its intellectual
property rights.

Ergonomics eases the pain at Great Lakes
Cheese
Manually lifting 250 and
700 lb. cheese blocks is not only slow, tedious
and money wasting, it's also a back-breaking,
thankless job. Pneumatic lifting devices
speed the process and decrease
injuries.

Most Americans want tougher food safety
rules
Among likely voters
surveyed across the country, about 9 in 10
support the federal government adopting
additional food safety measures, and 64% believe
that imported foods are often or sometimes
unsafe.

Federal rules govern processor food
safety, not produce
Unlike
food processors, producers find few federal
regulations, but must conform to a host of
customer-driven rules and third-party audits,
which are often biased against small
producers.

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