Educational programs that include food safety, sanitation and quality as part of worker safety training offer more protection and rewards for processors.
Have a special birthday or anniversary coming up? Most people celebrate with a trip to a favorite restaurant. While expensive, high-end restaurants remain popular destinations for special celebrations, going out to eat for no special reason has become mainstream for most Americans.
Do you ever consider how much you accomplish in a day, a week or a year? We do. Each year at this time, Food Engineering's editorial team begins work on a three-and-a-half month project that provides a very unique service to our industry-the Food and Beverage Plant Construction survey. In its 29th year, this research survey uncovered more than 500 plant projects of $1 million or more last year.
The food supply in the United States is one of the most diverse and safe in the world. A stroll through a grocery store almost anywhere in the country reveals a variety of choices unknown anywhere else around the globe. So, one wonders, how can an industry that can produce such bounty have a problem when it comes to communicating safety and efficiency?
Arcing and uneven heating are two issues that have limited industrial applications of microwave technology, be it in food or any other manufacturing process. Researchers in Dana Corp.'s Disruptive Technologies Group in Rochester Hills, MI, believe they have overcome those limitations with atmospheric plasma technology-AtmoPlas for short.
Once playing with your food at the dinner table was discouraged-now ketchup-maker H.J. Heinz Company and Graham Packaging Company, York, PA, have joined together to create an innovative plastic ketchup bottle called Heinz Silly Squirts that actually encourages play thanks to a specially designed closure.
Fear of failure is a major barrier to innovation, and the fear factor increases when both the product and the package are new and different. To overcome innovation inertia, Tetra Pak Inc. is taking a do-it-yourself approach to risk assessment for Tetra Wedge Aseptic (TWA), the microwaveable carton that substitutes silicon oxide for aluminum in the barrier laminate.
To command an upscale price, premium ingredients and packaging are a given, believes Kevin Tisdale, marketing director for the Pacific Natural Foods brand of Tualatin, OR-based Pacific Foods.
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