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Bad news first: If you make pet food, have an older facility and have been putting off examining your operation in light of FSMA, rushing to comply with the new food safety rules for animal foods is probably proving to be a challenge.

High pressure processing is growing rapidly as a way to make food safe without heat and keep it tasting and looking its best longer.

Kurt Penn, the founder and CEO of Good Foods Group LLC, was first exposed to high pressure processing back in 2008 at a trade show and then when the chicken sausage business he owned was purchased by Perdue Farms, who was using HPP.

Ingredient companies use extraction technologies to concentrate the active components in cannabis. This is a boon to makers of legal cannabis edibles and beverages seeking to produce a variety of functional commercial products that have consistency and quality.

The Microlab STAR uses air displacement pipetting to achieve superior cannabis product assay accuracy.

Pet food follows broader human food trends because it must appeal to pet owners who buy it, and these consumers are now expecting the same high standards for their animals' food as their own: convenience, quality, authenticity and transparency.

Choosing a site for a new food or beverage plant is a complicated process, with a number of factors to evaluate and prioritize. Like a jigsaw puzzle, it's easier to start small and consider individual pieces before trying to put them all together.

U.S. manufacturing is in the thick of an expected shortage of 2 million workers over 2015–2025. Talent is the top challenge among the evolving concerns of global executives.

Implementing lean manufacturing techniques can help companies improve operational performance and customer responsiveness to improve the bottom line.

Some food and beverage plants are potentially well-suited to totally automated process control. Other applications may not be so easy to automate but can still benefit from incremental process control implementations.