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Plant Renovations

Preparation is paramount

Regulations and competition are getting tougher, and companies are building to secure their futures.

February 24, 2016

Food and beverage processors have different reasons to renovate, such as meeting company specs or FSMA or GFSI requirements.

Green Series

Achieving Zero Waste

Food and beverage manufacturers continue sustainability efforts by minimizing byproducts, composting waste, recycling processing and packaging materials, and conserving energy and water.

Wayne Labs

February 10, 2016

Manufacturers looking to improve their sustainability are wise to remember the three R’s of waste management: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Heat and Control fryer with external support module

Protein Processing

Solving meaty challenges

Protein processors can have trouble meeting production demands, if they’re working with out-of-date manufacturing spaces and equipment.

Wayne Labs

January 6, 2016

While many protein processors need to speed up their operations, there are many stumbling blocks thwarting their efforts.

Special Supplement: Site Selection

Setting your sites on solid ground

A litany of factors must be considered in selecting a new plant location, but the choice must ultimately facilitate your goals and business strategy.

Debra Schug

December 21, 2015

Whether a processor is moving on, moving up or moving out, choosing a new home for a plant must involve the consideration of several factors, such as utilities and water costs, access to transportation, labor availability, incentives and sustainability issues.

TECH FLASH

Self-regulation improves nutrition in children’s cereal

Participants in the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative reduce sugars, calories and sodium and increase the amount of whole grains.

Jeremy Gerrard

November 13, 2015

The CFBAI has set nutrition standards for foods its participants may advertise to children under age 12.

TECH FLASH

Workplace fatalities increased in 2014

The initial results from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries reveal a 9 percent increase in manufacturing fatalities.

Jeremy Gerrard

September 29, 2015

Contact with objects and equipment accounted for the highest number of deaths.

TECH FLASH

Flowers Foods acquires second organic bread company in less than a month

The company has acquired the Alpine Valley Bread Company and Dave’s Killer Bread.

Jeremy Gerrard

September 14, 2015

Flowers Foods—whose current brands include Wonder and Nature’s Own—is expected to spend more than $400 million in just one month on organic acquisitions.

Non-Thermal Processing

Take off the heat

For some applications, non-thermal pasteurization or sterilization techniques can produce safe food as well as thermal techniques and preserve taste, texture and color.

Wayne Labs

August 14, 2015

Thermal pasteurization techniques have been around since Louis Pasteur, and there is no question they’re effective.

TECH FLASH

Federal judge rules Idaho ag-gag law unconstitutional

US District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill rules the law violates the First Amendment.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 12, 2015

The statute would criminalize undercover surveillance and investigations that document animal welfare, worker safety and food safety violations at agricultural production facilities.

TECH FLASH

GMA petitions FDA for use of partially hydrogenated oils

GMA argues there is “reasonable certainty of no harm” from consumption of PHOs for the uses and at the levels the association is seeking.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 12, 2015

In June, FDA announced its determination that PHOs are not generally recognized as safe or GRAS for use in human food.

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