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Tech Update: Cooling & Freezing

Preserving quality and safety

As consumers demand food and beverage products made with fresher ingredients, refrigeration and freezing technology becomes more important.

Debra Schug

May 20, 2016

The clean label movement has been seeking and destroying artificial ingredients in food products for a number of years now.

Pest Control

Defend your plant from food pests

Now is the time to arm your facility with a better integrated pest management program.

Jeremy Gerrard

May 13, 2016

When it comes to pests, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan.

Continuous Improvement

Got waste? Check, analyze, plan, do!

Learn how to leverage the process and tools in your company to reduce waste to not only meet but exceed your customers’ expectations.

Craig Andrews

May 6, 2016

It’s not uncommon to experience frustration in the manufacturing world when things don’t go well, when costs are higher and quality is lower than you’d like and when you can’t seem to meet your customers’ requirements.

Food Safety

Are you ready for the FSMA final rules?

Only one of seven FSMA final rules remains in limbo. Fortunately, FDA has stated it will teach while determining compliance.

Wayne Labs

April 25, 2016

If you feel your company is not completely ready for FSMA, you’re not alone.

Green Series

Reducing water usage in food and beverage processing

For decades, water was seen as a free commodity in processing environments, but attitudes are starting to change due to increasing drought conditions and recent water pollution crises.

Debra Schug

April 18, 2016

At the beginning of 2016, the world learned about the elevated lead levels in Flint, MI’s drinking water.

Plant of the Year

Food Plant of the Year 2016: SugarCreek brings home more than the bacon

Though SugarCreek started out as a bacon processor, its newest high-tech plant is poised for growth as consumers demand more sophisticated RTE food products.

Wayne Labs

April 8, 2016

Yes, bacon has lately become a trend or fad, leaping its way out of the breakfast frying pan into food creations where it would have seemed an unlikely ingredient just a few years ago.

Tech Update: Cleaning & Sanitation

Boost plant efficiency by being clean, safe and savvy

Risks will always exist, but combining technology and employee training ensures processes not only comply with, but exceed, increasingly stringent regulatory standards.

Jaan Koel

March 25, 2016

Technology is one thing; training is another. But, the two fit together like a hand in a glove when it comes to keeping food and beverage plants running at peak efficiency in the cleanest, safest way possible.

Automation

Are your control networks safe from cyberattacks?

Better safe than sorry since "sorry" could cost you downtime, product quality or safety and/or your brand’s reputation.

Wayne Labs

March 18, 2016

According to the ICS-CERT (Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team) fiscal year 2015 final incident response statistics, the food and agriculture segment reported only two cyberattacks last year.

Food Safety

TACCP: HACCP for threat assessments

Threat assessment and critical control point applies well-understood HACCP principles to protect food and beverage products from intentional and malicious contamination.

Wayne Labs

March 11, 2016

Nanjing, China, September 18, 2002: “Police have arrested a snack bar owner who confessed to spreading lethal rat poison into the food of his business rival on Saturday morning, killing 38 people and leaving hundreds seriously ill.”—China Daily.

Food Safety

Battling pathogens in produce

Produce is increasingly becoming associated with foodborne illnesses due to a growing number of reported outbreaks.

Debra Schug

March 4, 2016

Food writer Michael Pollan’s famous mantra, “Eat food, not much, mostly plants,” seems to have made an impact on consumers who are demanding fresh produce.