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Volume 7,
Number 17   September 13,
2011

FSMA
unfairly targets small
producers/processors
FDA is
taking the heat for parts of the Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA), which according to
some watchdog agencies, targets the little guy
with unfair costs.

Cargill
convenes panel of food safety
experts
Cargill has asked a
panel of experts in food safety, microbiology
and epidemiology to review its enhanced
ground-turkey food safety program in the wake of
the company's August 3 recall.

PACK
EXPO Conference strengthened by industry groups,
CPGs
Key industry groups and
CPGs will address attendees at PACK EXPO's 2011
Las Vegas conference. The program includes
topics on sustainability, food safety,
FSMA, serialization and sustainability.

Should
mushrooms use a tanning
salon?
New research in the
American Chemical Society's Journal of
Agricultural and Food Chemistry produced
some interesting findings on sunshine vs.
artificial ultraviolet light for producing
Vitamin D.

Anuga
FoodTec 2012 expands
Scheduled
for March 2012 in Cologne, Germany, the Anuga
FoodTec trade show is expanding and has already
added an extra hall bringing the total floor
space to 1.367 million sq.-ft. or 127,000
square-meters.

Cargill
facility adds waste-to-energy
capacity
Cargill's beef
processing facility located in High River,
Alberta, Canada will increase its capacity to
generate energy to meet 80 percent of the
plant's needs in 2012 with a new waste-to-energy
project.

The
world's top 100 food & beverage
companies
Growth in emerging
markets is driving activity, despite the need
for manufacturers to tackle economic challenges,
cut costs, ensure operational efficiency and
decrease environmental impact.

Tech
Update: Robotics
After they've
proved their worth in secondary packaging and
grunt applications, robots are slowly making
inroads for jobs closer to the process.

26th
anual packaging trends
survey
Speed always is a
priority in packaging operations, but market
realities are elevating other considerations for
food and beverage professionals.

Engineering
R&D: New solution for
slaughter
Systems development
can create strange bedfellows. Take, for
example, the alliance between an Alabama road
construction firm and food scientists addressing
animal welfare
issues.

Food
Engineering White Papers

"Preventing Contamination - A
guide to material selection for food and
beverage equipment," Bimba.

"Food for Thought: Automated
Material Handling Technology for the Food
Industry,"
Retrotech.

PerkinElmer entered into a
definitive agreement to acquire Caliper Life
Sciences.

PepsiCo, Inc. was included
in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability
Indexes (DJSI). PepsiCo is ranked as
the number one company in the DJSI Food and
Beverage Supersector, the only company based in
the US to earn a top ranking in the 19
supersectors assessed.

Belden acquired industrial
network security firm Byres
Security.

Industrial Info has
identified more than $880 million in new project
activity for the food and beverage industry in
North America for August 2011, with more than 80
project reports.

Archer Daniels Midland has
acquired two oilseeds processing plants in India
to expand its global reach.

GPE Process Equipment named
Anthony Dalman as its
divisional sales manager. He will be based in
Chicago.

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