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Volume 6, Number
23

Packaging
machine market healthy but processors want
more
While there is a healthy
demand for packaging machine equipment in the
food industry, processors want flexible
equipment, ready to adapt at a moment's
notice--and it better be easy to use
and energy efficient.

Kashi
Company decreases food packaging
materials
The company has
succeeded in reducing the amount of packaging
material by as much as 12.4 percent in some
brands while holding product volume
constant.

Federal
court orders GE sugar beet
destruction
The USDA had
sanctioned the planting of genetically
engineered sugar beets without having finished
an environmental impact statement. Until the
USDA's EIS is approved, growing GE sugar beets
is illegal.

Food
allergy guidelines help emergency
personnel
Food allergies,
especially among children, is a major health
concern. Finally, a set of guidelines will help
medical and school personnel know how to deal
with extreme, life-threatening food
allergies.

How
safe is the food at your favorite restaurant or
grocery?
The UK's Food Standards
Agency expects to air dirty little secrets that
food establishments like to keep quiet--how food
is prepared in the kitchen or butcher shop. The
rating system is aimed at food
safety.

Nutrition
facts go front and center
If
you've ever flipped a food package over and
over, looking for nutritional information only
to find it in three-point type that requires a
microscope to read it, help is on the way.

Fabulous
Food Plant: Breakfast, courtesy of
Malt-O-Meal
Malt-O-Meal doubled
the number of built-this-century US cereal
plants when it started production last year in
Asheboro, NC, site of its second new facility in
six years.

Tech
Update: Filtration
Filtration
technology has filled a supporting role in food
and beverage production, but multifunction
filters are taking a star turn by replacing
other technologies in some applications.

Dressed
for success
Proper uniforms and
protective gear help keep product safe and
maintain crew safety.

Food
Safety: Let's get back to basics

Lack of sanitation is the root cause of
almost every food poisoning incident and a
significant number of the
recalls.

Food Safety and Supply Chain
Traceability: Provide Your
Insights

Delivering fresh and safe food to consumers
is a top goal for nearly every food and beverage
manufacturer. The focus of the upcoming Food
Safety and Supply Chain Traceability study is to
understand how Best-in-Class companies use a
specific combination of underlying business
processes and enabling technologies to achieve
enterprise-wide product and process
traceability. We request you to participate in a
brief survey about your traceability initiative.
Each respondent who answers the survey will
receive a complimentary full copy ($399 value)
of the report containing this study's results.
We thank you for your support to our
research.
Take
the 15 minutes survey
today!

Product
Recalls May No Longer Be A Matter Of
Choice!
Get the software specifics
for complying with and exceeding SQF 2000
Product Traceability and Recall
codes.
Watch
On-Demand
Webcast

Key Technologies and
ABCO Industries formed a
manufacturing and sales alliance where Key will
be the sales representative for ABCO's Food
Machinery manufacturing group in the US.

Sunny Delight Beverages Co.
is investing more than $70 million to upgrade
all five of its North American manufacturing
facilities and data systems and to acquire a
plant in Sherman, Texas.

Ball Corporation signed a
definitive agreement to acquire Aerocan
S.A.S.

Scott Bonine joined
BinMaster Level Controls as a
sales manager for its line of point and
continuous bin level sensing devices.

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