Volume 8 • Number 4 • February 29, 2012

PROCESSING

PACKAGING

SUSTAINABILITY

INNOVATION

FOOD
MASTER

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Manufacturing
News

Thailand
still strong as food processing
location
With the recent flooding in
Thailand, businesses are rebuilding. Former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke about the challenges
facing the Thai economy.

Global
frozen, prepared food industry to reach $186 billion by
2015
Convenience and lack of time for
busy families to prepare food from scratch and the
craving for quick treats have driven the frozen,
prepared food industry to new highs.

Kellogg
Company to acquire P&G's Pringles
business
Kellogg Company, which sees
Pringles as a perfect fit for its snack foods business,
entered into an agreement with Procter & Gamble to
buy Pringles for $2.695
billion.

Automation
News

How
do you deal with traceability?
It may be
OK from a regulatory standpoint to manually keep track
of your ingredients and the products you ship, but how
quickly could you respond in a recall?

FDI
Cooperation, LLC promises a common path for field
device integration
For years, having
field instruments and controllers from different
manufacturers and protocols working together was a
dream. Now it's a step closer to reality.

Outsource
production maintenance?
With short
production cycle times and the need for maximum uptime,
processors may find it advantageous to improve their
maintenance operations by outsourcing it.

Food Safety
News

Food
Safety Summit provides training, explores
FSMA
With over 88 hours of education
spanning four days, the 2012 FSS features six
half-day workshops, fifteen 90-minute sessions and
three certification programs.

US
food recalls jump at end of 2011
Food
recalls across the nation increased 50 percent in the
fourth quarter of 2011 and affected 80 percent more
products compared with the previous three-month period.

Antibiotic-resistant
MRSA present in retail pork
If you
thought the only place you could acquire
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was
in the hospital, think again. Now it's been found in
pork.

Industry
News

Engineering
R&D: Anaerobic collaboration
The
combination of membrane bioreactor filtration with a
zoned anaerobic digester resulted in COD reductions in
effluent.

Dust-free
solution for stick packs
Vacuum
conveying system cuts spurious dust emissions, makes
clean-up simple plus keeps employees out of harm’s way.

Yves
Rey takes over GFSI chairmanship
Rey is
corporate quality manager at Danone.

General
Mills introduces X3 process at CoDev
New
step-by-step approach provides road map for innovation
success.

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