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Volume 6, Number
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FDA
not doing enough to keep bad food out of the
US
Keeping unsafe food out of
the US remains a challenge to FDA as it had
significantly cut back inspections on foreign
food facilities. As its staff increases, so will
inspections.

Go
ahead, have another morning
java
While some would argue that
too much caffeine is a problem for people with
certain medical conditions, researchers have
found that coffee may help ward off type 2
diabetes.

House
passes food safety reform, but bill languishes
in Senate
Although the
House of Representatives passed food safety
legislation last year, the Senate has been
sitting on it. Rep. John Dingell, the bill's
author, wants some action.

Report
cites 70 steps to reduce childhood
obesity
The White House Task
Force on Childhood Obesity Report, which has
been generally accepted by the food industry,
shows there is still much to be
accomplished.

Keystone Foods honored as 28th Plant of the
Year
Keystone's new Gadsden, AL
poultry processing facility received FE's 2010
Plant of the Year award. The facility has three
isolated production
lines.

The world's top 100 food &
beverage companies
Leading
players are streamlining their businesses and
investing in projects abroad, while optimizing
environmental and operational performance.

The QA and engineering
partnership
Collegial
relationships between engineering and quality
professionals in planning and operating food
plants are becoming a condition of doing
business.

Tech Update: Size reduction

While obtaining optimal yield is a priority
in size reduction applications, other factors
such as food safety, operator safety and
equipment reliability are key concerns.

Engineering R&D: Robotic chicken
butcher
Researchers at Georgia
Tech hope their intelligent deboning system will
boost yields for poultry processors and reduce
ergonomic stress on
workers.

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Beginning production this year is a new $19
million bottling plant wholly owned by
COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Co.
Ltd., located in Hohhot, the capital
city of Inner Mongolia.

Chandler Johnson joined
World Water Works as chief
technology officer.

Tom Swovick joined
TGW, an integrated logistics
solutions and material handling equipment
provider, as systems sales manager for the food
and beverage vertical market.

NutraCea appointed
J. Dale Belt executive vice
president, chief financial officer and chief
accounting officer.

ACS Group promoted
Jeff Jakubiak as material
handling/electrical production supervisor for
the material handling department.

BASF Pest Control Solutions
appointed Travis Chambers as
its new senior sales specialist covering
Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.

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