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For the second time in as many years, FE’s annual Food Automation and Manufacturing Conference was held quite successfully on line—rather than in person—due to the persistent COVID-19 pandemic.

Walk into nearly any grocery store in the U.S., and you’ll find dozens of products from Goya Foods. The company is America’s largest Hispanic-owned food brand—founded in 1936—and for many shoppers also one of the most recognizable.

Cleaning and sanitation programs are the backbone of creating a safe plant environment for employees and for the food it produces. General Mills’ Karl Thorsen talks about developing a comprehensive cleaning and sanitation program.

If you visit AriZona Beverages’ website and click on “Who’s Thirsty?” it seems that once you start scrolling through available beverages, you’ll never get to the end. With more than 300 products sold around the country, it takes some modern equipment and some talented, dedicated people to make all those products.

We are all observing the continued rise of plant-based foods and alternative proteins in the marketplace, but what’s driving demand from a consumer standpoint, and how are processors positioned to handle that increasing demand?

The 2021 Food Automation and Manufacturing event (FA&M) proved to be successful, engaging and educational as well as fun for all participants. 

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of Dow, and HP Indigo, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking and Karlville, have debuted a first-of-its-kind pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept.  

GOUSTO, a U.K.-based subscription meal kit company, is trialing a “world-first” edible packaging solution to help improve the environmental credentials in its recipe boxes. 

Scheduled to break ground in spring 2022, the 500,000-square-foot Cattlemen’s Heritage beef-harvesting plant, to be located in northern Mills County just south of Council Bluffs, will harvest 1,500 head per day and employ up to 750 people. 

Conagra has received two reports to date of injury (dental damage) associated with the recalled product.