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Schneider Electric focuses on digital transformation of the food and beverage industry

Maple Leaf, Frito Lay and Ken’s Foods among presenters at this year’s Innovation Summit.

October 10, 2017

At its recent Innovation Summit, Schneider Electric unveiled three new solutions for the food and beverage industry to help processors achieve operational excellence and efficiency while ensuring they stay in regulatory compliance.

Fabulous Food Plant

Innovation, tradition make Sanders and Morley Candy Makers a fabulous food plant

Confectioner insists on making caramel the old-fashioned way, but also recently installed two new lines and has moved toward clean-ingredient labels.

Crystal Lindell

October 10, 2017

Sanders and Morley Candy Makers, which first worked its way into the hearts of those who live in Michigan with factory tours for school kids, is beloved in its home state and is growing nationally.

Food Safety

New tools help track degradation of cooking oil

New tools are available to evaluate the quality of frying foods, but will they solve all of the problems?

Richard F. Stier

October 9, 2017

Several major manufacturers of foodservice fryers are installing technology that allows the continuous monitoring of their cooking oil quality.

FDA

FDA tells bakery: Love is not an ingredient

Nashoba Brook Bakery gets warning letter that includes a violation for listing “love” as one of its granola ingredients.

Crystal Lindell

October 4, 2017

Apparently, it doesn’t matter how much of your soul you put into making something, you aren’t allowed to list “Love” as one of the ingredients.

Mergers and Acquisitions

SUEZ finalizes acquisition of GE Water & Process Technologies

Former president and CEO of GE Water to lead new business unit

Casey Laughman

October 2, 2017

SUEZ has announced that it has completed the acquisition of GE Water & Process Technologies.

Engineering R&D

CERTUS helps processors simplify Listeria testing

This user-friendly system provides real-time monitoring through simultaneous enrichment and detection.

Wayne Labs

September 29, 2017

A Listeria testing system from CERTUS can streamline and simplify Listeria testing.

Opinion

Opinion: Disasters aren't the only havoc food processors need to prepare for

Disaster preparedness is crucial, but day-to-day events can cause havoc as well

Casey Laughman

September 28, 2017

We’ve been all too familiar with natural disasters lately.

Risk Analysis study: Even properly cooked pork chops pose Listeria, Salmonella threat

Leftovers, which could feature just a few pathogens that then had the chance to multiply, were the real concern, according to the research.

Crystal Lindell

September 28, 2017

It turns out that people eating leftover pork chops that have not been cooked well-done are likely putting themselves at risk for Salmonella and Listeria exposure.

Food fraud

How barcodes can help fight food fraud

Food ranks among the top five most valuable counterfeit markets

Sean Riley

September 28, 2017

Within the layered approach to brand protection are overt technologies — barcodes, holograms, watermarks, embossing and etching — and covert technologies — taggants, UV, infrared and fluorescent inks, Smart technology and radio frequency identification (RFID).

Food Safety

Beef and pork products recalled due to undeclared allergen

Products contain undeclared milk

Casey Laughman

September 28, 2017

RI Wang Food Group, based in Maspeth, N.Y., is recalling more than 63,000 pounds of pork and beef products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen.