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Food Safety

How processors are adapting to FSMA in its early years

What food and beverage manufacturers need to know to stay in compliance

August 31, 2020

Food manufacturing businesses must comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)—the biggest food safety reform in seven decades, which affects the way our foods are grown, harvested and processed.

Packaging

With more home baking, Ardent Mills adds lines for retail flour packages

Company quickly adjusted to ensure flour available during pandemic; investments part of long-term retail growth plan

Rose Shilling

August 26, 2020

Ardent Mills is growing its retail flour operations long-term, adding and upgrading lines for consumer-sized packages that are in demand as more people bake at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editor's Note

A strange year has processors trying to figure out what comes next

Casey Laughman

August 26, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has kicked food and beverage production into overdrive. A lot of us are feeling more worn out than ever.

COVID-19 coverage

Webinar: FDA, OSHA, CDC provide food operations stakeholders with COVID-19 update

August 25, 2020

The FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a webinar on Tuesday, September 1 from 2:30-3:30 pm EST to provide a COVID-19 update for food operations stakeholders.

Tech Update

How robots help processors navigate the COVID-19 pandemic

Whether team members are out sick with coronavirus or your plant needs some help with social distancing, robots can pick up the slack

Wayne Labs

August 21, 2020

Robots and cobots can help when your food or beverage has workers out sick with COVID-19 or needs to implement social distancing.

Labor department publishes new rules to adjust civil penalty amounts

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OSHA, FDA develop checklist to protect food industry employees amid pandemic

August 19, 2020

OSHA and FDA have developed a checklist for human and animal food manufacturers to consider when continuing, resuming or reevaluating operations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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OSHA, NAMI form alliance to protect meatpacking workers

Sharon Spielman

August 14, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed an alliance with the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) to provide information, guidance and access to training resources for protecting workers in the meatpacking and processing industry from exposures to the coronavirus.

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Pandemic prompts temporary policy changes

Facilities can use FDA guidance to comply with FSMA during the coronavirus crisis

Sharon Spielman

August 13, 2020

Just as companies are adapting and settling in to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and its rules, enter the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic.

This robot stacks pallets away from people

Robotics and COVID-19

Robotics service and maintenance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robotics suppliers have had to adapt to provide service, maintenance and parts

Wayne Labs

July 29, 2020

No doubt about it, COVID-19 has changed the way most—if not all—businesses operate. While food and beverage processors have had to struggle with supply chain issues, robotics and system suppliers have had to face similar supply chain problems, plus come up with solid methods of service and maintenance support during the pandemic.