Airtight packaging and a quick-chill process that extends refrigerated shelf life to 45 days are helping San Francisco-based Heartland Soups gain a Bay-area foothold in the emerging health-conscious food market.
Container gripability is a function of hand size, and packagers increasingly are designing their containers for easy gripping by children in the 8 to 12 age group.
Over the past few months our industry has been experiencing very perplexing situations in some meat processing plants, culminating in the announcement of the largest ever meat recall of 27.4 million pounds.
Moves into the Mainstream Merging standards and technology will move the food supply chain to a place where partners will be able to “sense and respond” to the overall needs of the chain.
Whether they have a new formulation or revolutionary process change, processors have many options for lowering the odds of production snafus with new products.
A few years ago, food scientists developed a lab process for creating gelatinized whey protein concentrate. Now the technology is poised for commercial scale-up.
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