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An engineered solution to source reduction for beverage packagers recently marked an early milestone.

Seattle Coffee Co., manufacturer of Seattle’s Best Coffee (SBC), is a processor in transition, and customers and employees both will benefit from those changes.

The same chemicals that allow processors to market sliced apples that remain firm and don’t brown for three weeks or longer are now being sold through supermarkets to consumers who would rather preserve fruit themselves.

Plastic cans made their food-industry debut more than a decade ago, but the packaging never advanced beyond test-market curiosity.

Overlooking the details that are essential to your business may result in a total failure.

Outsourced compliance and employee training service lighten the load for plant engineering at Snyder’s of Hanover.

Until September 11, bioterrorism seemed to belong largely to the world of pulp fiction and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

Too much maintenance is a waste; too little is a prescription for disaster. Fortunately, software can deliver schedules that are just right.

Nevertheless, several business and labor groups plan to challenge the standard in court.

With product recalls escalating, food companies are re-evaluating the most effective ways to provide sanitary conditions plantwide.