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New world technology brings old-world practice into the 21st Century

Government inspectors say the food industry faces a challenging task in keeping products from conventional and modified crops apart in the marketplace.

Necessity prompts Michigan Turkey Producers to fill an abandoned plant with process innovations and state-of-the-art environmental controls

Both trust and integration with customer standards must evolve before food manufacturers can truly collaborate with retail and foodservice customers.

The three leading tuna brands introduce retort pouches.

Continuous process triples throughput compared to conventional methods.

Capital spending for packaging machinery will take a hit this year, according to the fourth annual purchasing plan study by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, though food companies are cited as one of the stronger buyer categories.

PREDICTIVE AND ADAPTIVE CONTROLS HELP TO ENSURE PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ARE MAINTAINED IN COMPLEX, MULTI-VARIABLE PROCESS OPERATIONS

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged Bayer A.G. to remove the drug Baytril from the market on the grounds that its use as an animal antibiotic may eventually compromise the ability of Cipro, also a Bayer product, to fight anthrax and other diseases in people.

Extensive customer research assured Pennsylvania's Wawa Dairy that a switch to PET from high density polyethylene (HDPE) for single-serve juices and teas would positively impact sales. Still, summer's 30 percent spurt raised eyebrows.