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Pork and chicken egg rolls recalled for insanitary conditions

T & R Enterprise USA Inc. recalled about 118,000 pounds of pork and chicken egg rolls produced and packed in insanitary conditions, t...

People and Industry News: October 2019

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

USDA issues public health alert for Canadian company’s beef products

The USDA announced a public health alert about raw beef, gyro meat and kebabs imported from a company in the middle of a widening food sa...

EPA's stance on glyphosate may affect legal, regulatory outcomes

The glyphosate (aka Roundup) carcinogen controversy isn’t over yet, but the EPA’s stance on direct exposure may affect regulatory and leg...

Guidance released for converting vitamin units

FDA has released a guidance document that provides step-by-step instructions to manufacturers of retail food products marketed in the U.S...

Taco Bell recalls over 2 million pounds of seasoned beef for possible metal shavings

Taco Bell and a supplier recalled seasoned beef for tacos and burritos after customers said they found a metal shaving in their food.

Dog food maker puts your pup's photo on treat pouches

We all know personalization and custom batches are trends for people food, but they’re for pets too.

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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. …

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Automation

PLCs and controllers are being used as intelligent gateways to IIoT

Wayne Labs

PLCs/PACs are the unseen workhorses in our processes and material handling/packaging equipment today. …

Engineering R&D

DNA-based solution tracks fruit, produce, oils, grains

Wayne Labs

SafeTraces Inc. was recently granted a U.S. patent which discloses a ground-breaking method for encoding and decoding digital information to and from DNA strands drawn from seaweed. …

Food Safety

Food processors must be proactive in sanitary and hygienic design

Sharon Spielman

The operator is responsible to the public for safe food manufacturing. …

Latest headlines

Mangled, cryptic English creates maintenance headaches

Wayne Labs

While not all processors have machine shops with CNCs in their plants, most food and beverage plants do have process and packaging equipment that would benefit from smarter maintenance. …

Automation

2019 State of Food Manufacturing Survey

Casey Laughman

Since 2014, respondents to Food Engineering’s annual State of Food Manufacturing survey have ranked automation as the No. 1 trend affecting the industry—until this year. …

Rotary filling machine from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery

Tool-less design allows for simple changeovers.

Dry Processing

K-Tron pneumatic conveying systems

K-Tron pneumatic conveying systems are suitable for conveying, feeding and batch weighing ingredients prior to mixers and extruders.

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Dry Processing

TwinTube vertical packaging machine

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

Dry Processing

Continuous dense phase convey systems

E-finity is designed for pressure monitoring with airflow corrections that allow the system to operate efficiently under all conditions, while gently inducing materials through the convey line in slug form.

Dry Processing

Inspira ACP-700 snack food case packer

Inspira VFFS bag maker and ACP-700 automatic case packer offer integrated and automated packaging room solutions for the snack industry.

Latest headlines

McCain Foods USA breaks ground for expansion in Washington

Sharon Spielman

McCain Foods USA, a supplier of frozen potato and snack food products across the country, celebrated the official start of construction on a 170,000 sq.-ft. expansion at its Othello, Wash., potato processing facility.

Food Engineering

2019 October

In the October 2019 issue of Food Engineering, we release the results of our annual State of Food Manufacturing Survey.

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