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Volume 8
• Number 2 • January 30, 2012

PROCESSING

PACKAGING

SUSTAINABILITY

INNOVATION

FOOD
MASTER

Food
Engineering Exclusive

Tech
Update: Metal detection & X-ray
inspection
Vigilance, metal detection
equipment and X-ray inspection systems can help keep
contaminants out of your food most of the time. In fact,
system enhancements let this inspection
equipment find smaller contaminants than previous
generations.

Manufacturing
News

Leading indicators suggest
accelerated growth mid-year
Economic
growth slowly continues. But the pace is expected to
pick up mid-year and continue accelerating in 2013,
which is good news for manufacturers.

Kraft Foods measures its
sustainability issues
Although food
processing requires a lot of energy, it is farm crops
that still consume the lion's share of resources in the
overall farm-to-fork process.

Making track and trace part of
manufacturing
A multi-level
effort involving a major retailer, research
group, technology provider and government is
producing a track-and-trace system for pork in
China.

Automation
News

New bottling plant fills
36,000 bottles per hour
Modern drive
systems with integrated motors, gears, inverters and
communications make distributed motion a must-have for
bottling plants.

Meat processing plant eliminates toxic sanitizers and
cleaners
New Hampshire bacon producer
creates cleaning and sanitizing solutions onsite from
salt, water and electricity.

Food
processor advances continuous improvement with X-ray
technology
New X-ray inspection system
provides precision detection in quality control
application.

Food
Safety News

FDA oversight lacking in US food facility
inspections
Since
2004, FDA has relied increasingly on states to conduct
inspections, but the results have been less than
stellar.

How safe is apple juice?

Arsenic
levels in imported apple juice have caused some concern.
While EPA regulates arsenic in municipal water, FDA
hasn't yet seen need for regulation.

FDA bans extra-label use of cephalosporin
drugs

FDA plans to publish the
Final Rule in the Federal Register announcing the
prohibition of the extra-label use of cephalosporin
drugs in food-producing animals.

Industry
News

Beverage processor cuts electric bill with
lighting retrofit
Energy audits
suggested energy-saving fluorescent lamps.

Magnetic
attraction
A Dutch firm is applying
amplified magnetic force to the task of peeling an
onion.

A
new digital world of information is
ready
Food Engineering
has been actively working to provide its
readers with a more compelling and interactive
online experience.

FDA
vs. USDA: Who regulates what?
Generating
data that can't be used for improvements is
useless.

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