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Volume 7,
Number 21   November 15,
2011

Plan Now to Attend!

Food Automation and
Manufacturing Conference and Expo
2012
April 22-25,
2012
Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort
Fort
Myers,
FL

FDA
denies petition against prophylactic use of
antibiotics
The FDA rejected two
petitions from Center of Science in the Public
Interest requesting a ban on the
prophylactic use of antibioitics for food
animals. FDA says already-existing guidance is
enough.

IFT
to host Food Policy Impact
Conference
The Institute of Food
Technologists will host its first Food Policy
Impact Conference in Washington D.C. on December
1. The program will look at food laws,
regulations and policies.

Automate
Show and Conference due back in
2013
Building on its success in
2011, the Automate show will again collocate
with ProMat at Chicago's McCormick Place from
January 21-24, 2013.

Preparing
for feeding 9 billion people by
2050
According to Jim Harkness,
president of the Institute of Agriculture and
Trade Policy, the technology to feed the world
isn't the issue; rather, it's the construction
of global agricultural markets at fault.

Global
fund dedicated to food
safety
The US government, World
Bank and private sector partners announced plans
to create a first-of-its-kind global fund to
improve food safety worldwide at the at the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in
Hawaii.

A
brand-new whey of packaging
food
Begun three years ago as an
industry-driven, research and development
project sponsored by the European Commission,
the WheyLayer project has found a suitable whey
protein-based packaging replacement barrier film
layer for non-recyclable, synthetic-based film
products.

Sustainable
Plant of the Year
Efficiency
was built into Frito-Lay's Casa Grande plant a
quarter-century ago, but the snack maker takes
the facility's energy- and water-conservation
systems to a new level with near net zero.

Flooring
commandment: Know thy
installer
Polymer science
presents food and beverage manufacturers with
many floor covering options, but performance
often hinges on the expertise of the people
installing them.

Indispensable
energy audits
Energy audits and
management can increase the bottom line, but to
be effective, the job is never done.

Tea
blend time and degradation cut with rotary
mixer
Tumble-turn-cut-fold
mixing action yields 100% batch uniformity in
less than three
minutes.

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.

Santa Monica Seafood
recently received Food Safety System
Certification (FSSC 22000). The certification
has been granted by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an
internationally recognized ISO certifying
body.

Sara Lee Corp. announced the
appointment of Ingrid Baron as
chief marketing officer of its International
Beverage business.

The Food Processing Suppliers
Association reported registered
attendees of 12,732 for PROCESS EXPO 2011, which
took place from November 1-4, 2011 at McCormick
Place in Chicago. International attendees at
this year's event totaled just over 14% of
visitors with the largest delegations coming
from Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and
Germany.

Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de
C.V., Mexico's leading producer and
processor of poultry and other food products
successfully concluded the process of acquiring
the American poultry company O.K.
Industries, Inc.

Cargill and BASF
Plant Science will co-develop a canola
oil that will provide a dietary source of
EPA/DHA.

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