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Volume 6, Number
8

Old building acquires new LEED gold
certification
Finally, old plant
buildings can have the honor of earning a LEED
Gold under the LEED for Existing Buildings
rating system. Pepsico's Frito-Lay Topeka, KS
site is 30 years old, but is environmentally in
tune.

Food processor puts on the
pressure
Sandridge Food
Corporation (Medina, OH) sees the value
in shipping food products without chemicals
and preservatives, and bets its customers
will, too--thanks to a high-pressure processing
system.

Economy sees mild
recovery
The US is in the early
stages of a mild recovery, according to
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's
Quarterly Economic Outlook. While 2009
was a year of recession, 2010 is on the
mend.

Processor keeps quality high, customers
satisfied
Maintaining high
product quality and consistent package weights
is a must for processors. But keeping track of
these using manual methods and Excel
spreadsheets is a sure-fire way to lose
business.

Automation expenditures will
grow
While 2009 expenditures for
automation in the food and beverage industry
were down due to the recession, expenditures are
expected to reach $6 billion by 2013, according
to the ARC Advisory Group.

Manage formulas, maximize
profit
The key to profitability
is spurring top revenue growth and controlling
the bottom line cost of ingredients, and this
can be accomplished by managing a product's
formula, according to the Aberdeen
Group.

Seven "Must Have" ERP Features for
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E. coli O157 incident rates down, Vibrio
up
Research from CDC shows that
E. coli O157:H7 incident rates are down over the
last ten years, even meeting the national 2010
Healthy People target in 2009, but Vibrio rates
have taken off.

Listeria finds easy way into new
plant
Despite all the safeguards
taken to prevent Listeria from entering a
brand-new plant, it came in the easiest way it
could find: on raw chicken entering the door,
according to USDA/ARS research.

Gold nanoparticles detect melamine in
milk
After two years of testing
for melamine with high-end
spectrophoto-
metric equipment, lab personnel
can now use a relatively quick and easy, visual
test.

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