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Volume 6, Number
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communications

Red Lion's Data Station Plus is the
single-device solution for protocol conversion,
communication gateways, web server and data
logging of serial, fieldbus and Ethernet
devices.
www.redlion.net/dsp.

PepsiCo
takes aim at the supply
chain
Given the impact
suppliers in the supply chain have on the
carbon footprint of its products, PepsiCo is
asking its suppliers to benchmark their resource
consumption and energy-management performance.

NOAA,
FDA develop test for dispersant in Gulf
seafood
Part of the reason both
agencies have developed a new test for checking
levels of dispersant in seafood is the
reluctance of the public to believe the results
of initial testing.

Food
Safety Act held hostage by lame
duck Congress
The future
is uncertain for the passage in the Senate
of the Food Safety and Moderization Act (S.510).
Opponents believe the bill is too costly, and
its regulations won't work.

Meat
and poultry processors get Fed support with
exports
US meat and chicken
producers are turning toward Washington for help
in improving export conditions in Asia. Japan
wants clarification on BSE and China wants
higher duties on US poultry products.

Pesticide,
clean water laws under
review
Rep. Collin C. Peterson,
House Agriculture Committee Chairman, introduced
legislation to amend the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the
Clean Water Act.

If
you don't measure it, you can't control
it
Process Analytical Technology
(PAT) is a system for getting a right batch
every time by using on-line/in-line sensors
(rather than taking measurements or samples to
the
lab).

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ENERGY SUPPLY YOU CAN RELY ON.

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Energy
efficiency dollars and sense: How do you measure
up?
Long viewed as a distraction
from throughput concerns, energy efficiency and
its relation to a product's carbon footprint are
becoming priority concerns for leading food
companies.

Outsourcing
sanitation and
maintenance
Specialized skills
are needed to keep machines running, processing
areas clean and foreign invaders at bay, but
food companies differ on whether these
specialists are staff members or vendors'
employees.

Tech
Update: Vision, metal detection and X-ray
systems
The question is no
longer whether you should check your products,
but when and how often.

Engineering
R&D: Big bang
theory
Hydrodynamic pressure
processing got a bad rap for meat tenderizing in
the 1990s, but USDA scientists believe there's
still hope for this and other technologies to
assist the
process.

Recent Food
Engineering Featured White Papers

Complimentary Aberdeen Group
Report: ERP Plus in the Process
Industries
"Increasing Production Efficiency--Back to
Basics: The Five Steps," Stellar.
"The Lean Workforce: Applying Lean principles
to improve workforce management," Kronos.

Emerson Process Management
joined the FDT Group on its
executive committee and board of directors.

Orkin, The IPM
Institute of North America and
NSF
International named four
companies 2010 Gold Medal IPMTM Partner Award
winners for their outstanding commitment to
integrated pest management (IPM) partnerships.

McDonald's USA recently
announced it has selected Tyson Foods
Inc. as its 2010 Supplier of the
Year.

Denis Hennequin will resign
as president of McDonald's
Europe to become chief executive
officer of the Accor Hotel Group.

IDEX Corporation acquired
The Fitzpatrick Company, a
manufacturer of process technologies for the
pharmaceutical, food and personal care
markets.

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