Dr. M. Anandha "Andy" Rao of Cornell University-Geneva, has received the IAFIS Foundation-FPEI Distinguished Food Engineer Award for 2003.

Co-op Atlantic, an integrated agri-food business cooperative based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, has formed a new company called Atlantic Tender Beef, Inc. and plans to construct a new beef processing plant in the Maritime Provinces.

American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC), winner of Food Engineering’s 2003 Food Plant of the Year award, was honored at a luncheon ceremony held last month in Clearwater Beach, Fla., during the Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference & Expo.

Managing a modern food manufacturing plant is no easy task.

Food manufacturers may get some tort-reform relief under legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House.

Neenah, Wisconsin-based Galloway Company has expanded its concentrated fluid food products manufacturing operations.

The top three attributes requested by customers looking for new packaging machinery are flexibility, fast speed and quick changeover capability, according to a recent survey of Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) member companies.

The Bush Administration’s proposed 2004 budget contains a big increase in spending for USDA’s Food Safety Inspection System.

eMerge Interactive, Inc., a Sebastion, Fla.- based company providing individual-animal tracking, food safety and supply-procurement services to the beef industry, has overcome the final hurdle in demonstrating the efficacy of its VerifEYE™ meat inspection system.....

SureBeam Corp., producers of the electron beam technology that removes bacteria from food, dedicated a new research facility to Texas A&M University.