Inventory management issues and distribution chain efficiency challenges are two of the many factors that will drive the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.

At least one industry trade group is raising objections to FDA’s new, stepped-up HACCP inspections.

Meat and poultry processors could face more stringent enforcement action if USDA adopts new tools currently under consideration.

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.