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FDA launches food safety dashboard

As the seven foundational rules of FSMA reach their compliance dates, the FDA has begun to track their impact on the food safety system.

Natural Grocers soybeans recalled due to mold

Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets recalled Natural Grocers brand organic soybeans because they might have mold.

People and Industry News: November 2019

Announcements about new hires, staff promotions, association news, awards, mergers and acquisitions.

Plant Openings & Expansions: November 2019

Announcements about new food and beverage plant construction projects, plant renovations and plant expansions.

Recall: Raw, organic ground beef may contain plastic

Rastelli Bros. Inc. recalled about 130,000 pounds of raw, organic ground beef that may be contaminated with plastic, the USDA announced.

Metal found in chicken causes recall of more than 2 million pounds

Simmons Prepared Foods Inc. recalled about 2 million pounds of chicken that may be contaminated with metal, the USDA announced.

Ground beef likely source of multistate salmonella outbreak with severe illnesses

Public health investigators have not identified a common supplier of ground beef that’s the likely source of a salmonella outbreak ...

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Innovation

North Carolina Food Innovation Lab takes aim at food production of the future

Casey Laughman

Depending on who is asked, Kannapolis, N.C., is most well known for being the birthplace of either Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton or NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. The mind behind “Atomic …

Innovation

CAT Squared becomes IBM Food Trust onboarding partner

Wayne Labs

CAT Squared has become an onboarding partner for the IBM Food Trust, a blockchain-enabled global network of food chain participants that securely connects supply chain data across the ecosystem with …

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Sustainability

Packaging industry pumps up R&D to keep pace with green goals

Rose Shilling

One after another, food and beverage companies have declared plans to cut waste and move toward the ultimate goal: packaging materials that are reused over and over. …

People & Industry News

CRB names Jason Robertson as food and beverage market director

Wayne Labs

CRB has appointed Jason Robertson as its food + beverage market director. Robertson will lead the company-wide growth of the food and beverage market. …

Sustainability

Energy Efficiency Strategies for Food Processors

Wayne Labs

While food processors have to commit to using a certain amount of energy to meet production and food safety requirements, there are ways to be more efficient about how that …

Processing

Navigating immigration policy is a challenge as food processors seek employees

Rose Shilling

Hiring immigrants to help fill worker shortages at American food factories is fraught with pitfalls. …

Dry Processing

Tortilla maker ensures quality and safety with new metal detectors

Sharon Spielman

To support its double-digit growth over the past few years, Arevalo installed three METTLER TOLEDO Safeline Profile Advantage metal detectors to help protect its final product quality. …

Sustainable solutions offer big challenges to food processors

It’s fair to say that the easy part is over, or at least mostly over. But sustainability isn’t going away because corporate sustainability goals, cost pressures and demands for details about sustainable production and ingredients from consumers are all here to stay.

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1898 & Co. to grow tech and management consulting talent

Sharon Spielman

Burns & McDonnell launches its first new brand in the firm’s history with 1898 & Co., a future-focused consulting and technology solutions arm to deliver on clients’ biggest challenges.

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Rotary filling machine from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery

Tool-less design allows for simple changeovers.

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K-Tron pneumatic conveying systems

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TwinTube vertical packaging machine

TwinTube is suitable for packaging small-sized food products in pillow bags of different sizes.

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Continuous dense phase convey systems

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Food Engineering

2019 November

In the November 2019 issue of Food Engineering, learn about the new ways food and beverage processors are reducing their energy footprints.

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