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Hormel Foods Announces Sale of Clougherty Packing for $145M

Parent company of Farmer John and Saag’s Specialty Meats sold to Smithfield Foods

Casey Laughman

November 23, 2016

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The sale also includes PFFJ farm operations in California, Arizona and Wyoming.

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Sabra Recalls Hummus Products

Listeria found at facility, but not in finished product

November 22, 2016

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Sabra Dipping Co. has voluntarily recalled certain hummus products due to Listeria monocytogenes being found at the manufacturing facility.

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Modern technology, supply chains not helping worldwide nutrition

The proportion of the world that is suffering from diet-related malnutrition is one in three and, if left unchecked, will increase to one in two.

Wayne Labs

November 17, 2016

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Estimates suggest that by 2030, the number of overweight and obese people will have increased from 1.33 billion in 2005 to 3.28 billion.

PepsiCo

PepsiCo pledges to use less sugar, reduce environmental impact by 2025

Company announces plans to release healthier products, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve water efficiency.

Crystal Lindell

October 20, 2016

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PepsiCo, Inc. has announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda, with goals ranging from reducing the amount of sugar in its products, to helping women and girls around the world.

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How food companies can combat hackers

Food and beverage companies are the third most likely to be hacked.

October 11, 2016

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Report shows 70 percent of food and beverage companies that are hacked go out of business within a year of an attack.

Pack Expo 2016

Pack Expo 2016 Preview: Show to feature 2,300 exhibitors

This year's event will showcase the latest automation and machinery in action.

October 6, 2016

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More than 50,000 industry professionals are expected to attend.

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Where the gaps lie in food safety training

Many food companies aren't getting all they can out of their food safety training efforts

September 23, 2016

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Study reveals that 75 percent of managers felts that employees would be more productive if their food safety program was more consistently applied.

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Think critically about maintenance

August 23, 2016

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For the last 15 years, Mike Trainor, SKF manager, asset reliability consulting, has seen it all when it comes to maintenance.

FSMA

Nestlé expands QAC in Dublin, OH in anticipation of FSMA

Expansion makes it Nestlé’s largest testing facility.

Crystal Lindell

August 16, 2016

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The center is now the largest and most sophisticated testing facility in the Nestlé network and possibly the world.

KIND to publish added sugar content on all its brands

Move comes two years before FDA deadline.

Crystal Lindell

August 16, 2016

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KIND Healthy Snacks now publishing added sugar contents on its products.

Plant of the Year 2019: Valley Milk's new facility aids vertical integration

A good pest control program can help protect the bottom line

Extending the applications of Blockchain in the food manufacturing industry

Using incremental process control for largely manual processes

Spectroscopy monitors chemistry, surface-level foreign objects in real time

Events

February 20, 2019

Reducing Mechanical Wear in Food Processing while Increasing Productivity

ON DEMAND: Food processing manufacturers have an increasing number of challenges, whether they are processing vegetables and fruit, filling pastries and baked goods, or cutting meat. This includes keeping up with sanitation, safety and maintenance requirements while maintaining throughput and production quality.

May 2, 2019

Water Management Best Practices

Effective management of water is becoming increasingly critical for food and beverage processors as the cost for incoming water increases and water supply becomes limited or restricted. Join Hixson Architecture & Engineering for our next Food Plant of the Future webinar, Water Management Best Practices, in which we share the strategies, technologies, and processes for reducing a plant’s overall water footprint.

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Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development

Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development is the first book to comprehensively address the issues of graphics design and visual concepts, from a systematic, scientific viewpoint, yet with business applications in mind.

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Food Engineering

2019 April

In the April issue of Food Engineering, we take an in-depth look at Valley Milk's milk powder processing plant in Turlock, Calif., which was selected as FE's 2019 Plant of the Year.

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