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From fractionating milk solids to waste treatment aimed at zero liquid discharge, filtration is playing a growing role in the food industry, provided manufacturers can keep membranes clean.

Lee Marvin had his Dirty Dozen. The Kroger Co. goes eight times further with “Free from 101,” a list of ingredients and food additives it is banishing from its private-label natural products.

When foodservice accounts ask if they can sell your product, you know you have a hit.

Shelf-stable foods prepared with microwave-assisted thermal sterilization may soon debut, provided the packaging riddle can be solved.

System upgrade doubles throughput, maximizes line uptime and provides efficient long-term operational ROI.

Low maintenance, flexible vertical form-fill-seal equipment delivers increased speed and uptime.

Processors may have picked all the low-hanging fruit in saving energy, but may have forgotten the obvious.

Reported earlier in FE’s Tech Flash e-newsletter, the recent Salmonella Bredeney outbreak has sickened a total of 35 people in 19 states, and has been attributed to peanut butter—and potentially other nut butters—from Sunland Inc. (Portales, NM).

There has been some uncertainty about FDA’s plan to implement preventive controls and other provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) because the agency has not yet issued regulations implementing the law.

Food producers expressed strong disappointment when Congress adjourned without completing work on the new Farm Bill.