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Fresh foods and sterile processes are mutually exclusive, but technical advances are putting the best of both worlds within reach.

Don’t wait until customers ask you to comply. Get started now to improve manufacturing performance and food quality.
 

Attention to use of the humble hydrogen-oxygen molecule is producing sometimes-surprising operational improvements and cost savings at food plants.
 

Retail success stories involving aseptic products have been modest, but the technology is finding a growing niche in nonrefrigerated distribution.

Food production consists of a vast array of equipment—pumps, mixers, oven chain drives, tanks, pipes, conveyor systems, compressors, automatic doors and many other units and systems.

Quality improvement is a daunting challenge, but the effort can be expected to boost food safety, as well.

Be it ever so humble, overall equipment efficiency is the focus of a growing number of plant automation projects, adding another component to the continuous improvement tool kit.

With an eye toward maintenance and quick repairs, pump suppliers provide equipment to bolster uptimes.

Deliberate acts of sabotage can be more difficult to detect and prevent than bacterial threats to food. Food manufacturers now are bolstering their defenses against security threats.

A year after passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act, food companies await regulatory proposals for preventive controls and other requirements of the new law.