Food Engineering’s Annual Plant Construction Survey asked architectural and engineering/construction (A&E/C) firms what issues in either food safety and/or security have changed facility design in the last year or two. As a follow-on question FE also asked whether there is a trend to move the growing of certain crops inside for any of several reasons, which might include more careful control of the growing environment and/or food safety/security issues. This article deals specifically with these issues. For more information on this year’s 45th Annual Plant Construction article, be sure to check out the story in the June 2022 e-magazine and online. Two additional articles, also part of the Annual Plant Construction Survey, will look at automation and site locations.
“With FSMA passing the ten-year mark, food safety is incorporated by manufacturers and engineering firms alike into operations and design without second thought or confusion,” says David Ziskind, Black & Veatch NextGen Ag director of engineering.