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Volume 7,
Number 16   August 31,
2011

GE
fish not in safe water yet
The
debate over genetically
engineered salmon as food continues with
both sides making their case. One side says the
fish may escape to the environment and the other
says further delays are costly.

Pharma's
experience with track and trace may help
processors
"Been here, done
that" is pharma's experience with "one up, one
down" track and trace as an SOP. At PACK EXPO,
food industry leaders can learn a lot just by
looking at the model pharma is already
practicing.

Unrealistic
serving sizes understate calories, salt and
fat
Labels for food products don't
lie about the caloric, sodium and fat contents
of the food inside. But it may take a calculator
to determine exactly how much salt is in the
whole can of tomato soup you ate.

Doors
that are open and closed at the same
time
Maybe you
can walk through a "closed door."
In this case, air curtains act like a door that
is open to humans, yet closed to insects and
outside
air.

Baker
finds solution for inconsistent dough
quality
Variation in the quality
from batch to batch was leading to waste, and
process knowledge was inadequate. New integrated
batch execution, MES and historian software let
this baker get a grip on its dough.

Brewery
automates maintenance
management
When this craft
brewery's beers became so popular, it was time
for an upgrade to new brewing equipment and new
CMMS/EAM software to manage it all.

Wireless
HART
connects to Fieldbus Foundation, Profibus
devices
Users of any of the
three wireless sensor networks will soon be able
to connect the three systems and their devices
together through a WirelessHART
gateway.

Researchers
discover natural bacteria
killer
Scientists at the
University of Minnesota discovered a naturally
occurring lantibiotic, a peptide produced by a
harmless bacteria, that could be added to food
to kill harmful bacteria.

UL
establishes food safety educational
program
Underwriters
Laboratories launched an
educatonal program, a series of three
courses on "Food Safety Culture," "Food Safety
Awareness," and "Evaluation of HACCP & Food
Safety Preventative Control Programs."

Pfizer
will voluntarily suspend sale of drug
3-Nitro
The FDA reports that
Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer, will
voluntarily suspend US sales of the animal drug
3-Nitro (Roxarsone), a product used by poultry
producers ince the
1940s.

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