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With trade between Mexico and the United States increasing under the North American Free Trade agreement, both countries have agreed to tighten food safety controls on products crossing the border.

The new system reduces errors by removing hand calculations from the equation.

The same technologies that deliver pathogen-free foods are the ones that extend shelf life.

Nevertheless, several business and labor groups plan to challenge the standard in court.

Food companies are taking a closer look at outsourcing production, support services and even management responsibilities.

ISA S88 and S95 provide key frameworks for organizing batch operations

The milling of cheese to a fine particle size is critical to the operations of parmesan cheese maker Isanti Foods, but, until recently, it has also been a source of problems for the Dalbo, Minn.-based processor.

Some 170,000 visitors from 124 countries converged on the outskirts of Paris in late November to view exhibits, swap business cards and -- being France -- break bread at IPA and Emballage 2000, Europe's answer to the Pack Expo/IAFIS double-whammy held earlier in November at Chicago's McCormick Place.

With product recalls escalating, food companies are re-evaluating the most effective ways to provide sanitary conditions plantwide.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Elsa Murano to be Under Secretary of Food Safety for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.