Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

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Cold-pressed juice maker Evolution Fresh updated their HPP process to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and drive revenue.

A greenhouse automation system can’t afford to make mistakes, because losing control of a single crop is prohibitively expensive.

This year’s plant construction survey hit the highest number of projects ever recorded.

FSMA’s Intentional Adulteration rule is still a work in progress for some sites, meanwhile processors and retailers are eyeing indoor grow facilities.

Food and beverage product contamination can happen in a couple of ways. Organisms in the product itself can be spread by equipment that hasn’t been cleaned properly, while employees can also transfer germs to product. For this reason, it’s essential for processing to occur in a wash-down environment.

Ruprecht, a provider of fully cooked sous-vide protein products and raw meats, is an example of the capabilities and cost savings food manufacturers can attain with a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) purpose-built for their industry.

Cell-based milk, similar to cell-based meat, doesn’t need the animal—saving water and producing a lot less greenhouse gas too.

Labeling considerations have become a necessity after the supply chain demands of the past couple of years.

Consumers who purchase and eat alternative protein products typically want them to be packaged in a responsible way, too.

Good data—and lots of it—is key to making artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) production, inspection and packaging systems work without a hitch, plus well written algorithms to analyze the data and make decisions that will help people and machines function more intelligently.