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Food Safety

Inline monitoring aids in food safety and quality

What you don’t measure could kill your brand.

May 13, 2013

While it may be said that food safety and food quality are not necessarily interrelated, get lax about either, and you probably won’t have a brand for long.

Nestlé USA recalls frozen pizzas for foreign material

Small pieces of plastic were related to a batch of spinach.

Shane O'Halloran

May 3, 2013

Small pieces of plastic were related to a batch of spinach.

TECH FLASH

How do closed-loop quality management strategies fail?

Closed-loop management is a tool in the race to produce quality goods quickly and cheaply.

April 28, 2013

Manufacturers need help striking a balance between quality and cost.

CDC data shows some food borne infections more common in 2012, others unchanged

Two pathogens infected more people in 2012 than previous years.

Shane O'Halloran

April 22, 2013

Two pathogens infected more people in 2012 than previous years.

Dutch court upholds massive meat recall

50,000 pounds of product will be recalled over adulteration concerns.

April 19, 2013

50,000 pounds of product will be recalled over adulteration concerns.

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Plant of the Year

Plant of the Year 2013: Chobani

Chobani's brand-new Twin Falls facility continues to evolve while keeping up with the American public's insatiable demand for Greek yogurt.

Wayne Labs

April 9, 2013

Chobani time might be defined as the time it takes a new company, which started in 2005, to rise to the top in US Greek yogurt sales in 2012, claiming 47.3 percent of the US market, according to AdAge, June 6, 2012.

Plant Sanitation

Top five ways to get your plant sanitation FSMA-ready

Although the final FSMA preventive controls and cGMP provisions may be more than a year away, now is the time to develop and apply requisite science-based food safety plans.

Julie Larson Bricher

April 9, 2013

On January 4, 2013, two years after the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law, FDA issued its proposed Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls (HARPC) regulations.

Field Reports

Putting the freeze on nitrogen usage

Eliminating liquid nitrogen from the IQF process helps maintain raspberries at peak quality while saving money on consumable liquid nitrogen.

April 9, 2013

Enfield Farms, a Lynden, WA-based family-owned and operated business for more than 30 years, produces high-quality blueberries and raspberries, maintaining complete control over every aspect of its berry products.

TECH FLASH

Pomegranate juice: Is it real?

While California is now a major supplier of pomegranate juice, the rest of it originates in Middle East countries, but is not likely to be purchased directly from them.

Wayne Labs

March 26, 2013

Are consumers getting what they’re supposed to when they buy pomegranate juice?

TECH FLASH

European horse meat contamination raises questions over testing protocols

Consumer confidence is likely to suffer in the wake of the scandal.

Shane O'Halloran

February 26, 2013

European food safety authorities have been playing catch-up since the first reported contamination.

Conagra Brands to Sell Chef Boyardee Brand to Hometown Food Company

FDA to Amend Standards of Identity to Include Salt Substitutes

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