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Food manufacturing plants with a high rate of employee absenteeism could get an unannounced visit from OSHA.

ConAgra Foods Incorporated plans to build a new refrigerated storage and distribution warehouse in York County in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Advanced Instruments, Inc. will acquire 100 percent of the stock of Delta Instruments B.V., a Netherlands-based manufacturer of analytical instrumentation used to analyze milk and dairy products.

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.