Since its construction six years ago, Beef Products Inc.'s South Sioux City plant has undergone one improvement and expansion after another.

As the recent green-onion infections make clear, food safety practices need to be in place in every area of food and beverage processing.

While job insecurity and modest pay hikes characterized most of America's labor market in the last year, food industry professionals report respectable salary boosts and rising levels of job security.

Cooperation is becoming as common as competition among the industry's leading corporations.

While the growth rate in plant improvements is slowing, food companies are still enjoying a positive manufacturing environment.

The upside to the capital markets' disarray is the downside in the production disruption of mergers and acquisitions.

FE highlights some of the most important developments in food manufacturing during the last 75 years.

Food Engineering observes its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic review of major innovations in food manufacturing since 1928.

With safety advocates demanding regime change for microbial life forms in food plants, processors are evaluating new systems that may or may not be effective.

Waiting for replacement parts can freeze production lines and cost you sales and customers. FE's new survey sheds light on an often under-appreciated operations area.