Food and beverage manufacturing - Articles - Page 4

Food safety, productivity need fuel robotic innovations

Top automation suppliers join forces

August 30, 2016

The innovative partnership designed to deliver a new global standard of custom automation services to help clients grow today and build for tomorrow.

Regulatory Watch

Nutrition Facts news

August 30, 2016

USDA has finalized its new Nutrition Facts label requirements for food products.

USDA purchases 11 million pounds of surplus cheese

Jeremy Gerrard

August 24, 2016

USDA says it will purchase approximately 11 million pounds of excess cheese from private inventories to address the highest cheese surplus in 30 years.

Pinnacle moves EVOL operations to Arkansas plant

August 22, 2016

As Pinnacle Foods Inc.’s EVOL brand outgrows its current manufacturing facility in Boulder, CO, the company announced it is moving operations to its existing plant in Fayetteville, AR.

OSHA seeks nominations for membership to the Federal Advisory

August 22, 2016

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting nominations for members to serve on the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH).

People and Industry News

August 17, 2016

Mergers, acquisitions and people news in the food and beverage industry.

Hostess enters frozen aisle with launch of fried Twinkies

Jeremy Gerrard

August 17, 2016

You no longer have to wait until the state fair rolls into town to grab one of America’s favorite fabled indulgences: the deep fried Twinkie

Big deals lead concerns of craft beer industry

TECH FLASH

Alabama beer sale changes spark privacy debate

The Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control Board introduced a proposal that would require breweries and brewpubs that sell beer for off-premise consumption to record sensitive information.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 16, 2016

Beer manufacturers and breweries call the proposal a breach of privacy.