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Volume 7,
Number 14   July 28,
2011

Ecolab
and Nalco to merge
Ecolab Inc.
and Nalco Holding Company approved a definitive
agreement under which Nalco will merge with a
subsidiary of Ecolab in a transaction valued at
approximately $8 billion.

Production/processing
equipment supports FSMA
The Food
Safety Modernization Act is bringing pressure on
processors and suppliers alike to use safe,
easy-to-clean processing equipment. Suppliers
are listening and creating safe equipment.

Foundation
says FDA shouldn't pick on small
farms
The FDA, with limited
funds to support the new FSMA, should
concentrate on larger grower/producer operations
where incidents are more likely to happen,
according to the Weston A. Price
Foundation.

ERP
system gets help from flexible reporting
tool
While ERP programs do a
good job of managing business and preventing
multiple entries of the same data, they don't
always have the easiset-to-use methods for
extracting important data.

Poultry
producer changes out chlorine in
washer
With a view to decreasing
its microbial load on products, this South
African poultry producer set out to find an
alternative disinfectant to the chlorine the
company was using in its final washing
equipment.

Motion
control network increases North American
membership
Mechatrolink, an
Asian industrial network optimized for motion
control, has seen its membership of supplier
companies grow to 900, with 50 North American
companies signing on.

Beef
processor steps up E. coli testing to
serotypes
With the German E.
coli contamination behind us, one thing it's
taught is that E. coli O157:H7 isn't the only
dangerous E. coli. One processor is setting a
trend by testing for six additional
serotypes.

International
dialog proposes tighter controls on farm
antibiotics
The prophylactic use
of antibiotics in farm animals raised for meat
leaves antibiotic residues in the meat we put on
our tables, making it more difficult to treat
humans effictively with antibiotics.

FDA
takes action on illegal, antibiotic residues in
veal
Unnecessary and un-metered
doses of antibiotics in veal calves raised
by a California producer left residues
in tissue samples many times higher than
allotted for full-size
animals.

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