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Cybersecurity and OT

Industrial control systems risk shutdowns and other dangerous outcomes due to cybersecurity attacks

No doubt a ransomware or malware attack can shut down enterprise business systems, but cybersecurity attacks can do a lot more damage on manufacturing systems

Wayne Labs

August 31, 2020

Of late, several companies have taken hits on their worldwide IT and Web based systems. Perhaps the most recent, Canon, suffered a global ransomware attack, taking down many Canon websites and systems - also with a threat of making their private business data public. But can these IT/enterprise attacks threaten and/or damage OT systems? And what can they do to food and beverage products? Make them unsafe by altering a critical kill step or omitting preservatives? What else? I asked Barak Pereleman, VP of OT Security at Tenable, what attack vectors may pose danger to OT-based systems.

Food Safety

Milk allergy alert: Frito-Lay recalls chip bags filled with wrong flavor

Incorrect chips inside barbecue packages may contain milk ingredients that aren’t noted on labels

Rose Shilling

August 25, 2020

Frito-Lay recalled a variety of sizes of Lay’s Barbecue Flavored Potato Chips because the bags were filled with another flavor of chips that contain milk, an allergen for some people.

Food Safety

FDA looks for source of salmonella that sickened people who ate Aldi peaches

Aldi recalls potentially contaminated peaches from Wawona Packing Co.

Rose Shilling

August 21, 2020

Peaches sold in plastic bags at Aldi likely made about 70 people sick from salmonella, an outbreak spanning nine states, the FDA says.

Cleaning Technologies Group partners with Unitech Washing Systems to serve U.S. food/beverage customers

Sharon Spielman

August 19, 2020

Cleaning Technologies Group, LLC (CTG) has partnered with U.K.-based Unitech Washing Systems Ltd. to distribute specialty washers to the United States for the food and beverage industry.

Packaging and Supply Chains

Food processors cope with supply chains, pandemic and changing customer needs

PMMI’s Jorge Izquierdo, vice president of market development, sheds light on the state of industry trends including automation, OEE, omnichannel and blockchain

Wayne Labs

August 10, 2020

Food packaging (and consumer goods packaging in general) are seeing some stiff demands. While PMMI is predicting that the global food packaging market in itself will reach $400 billion by 2025, with a CAGR nearly 5%, there are some real challenges to overcome, both in packaging and the supply chain. For example, processors struggle to keep up with new customer demands, while product and packaging changeovers occur frequently to meet consumer needs. In addition, OSHA has been cracking down on unsafe machines, and the need to clean is more important than ever.

Food Safety

Avoid these prepared foods with onions recalled in salmonella outbreak

Expanded warnings issued against variety of salads and fresh packaged items at Giant Eagle, Kroger, Walmart

Rose Shilling

August 6, 2020

Recalls and health alerts about onions likely linked to a salmonella outbreak are expanding to include various fresh salads, snack packs and diced vegetables.

Recalled onions from Thomson International

Food Safety

FDA: Onions are likely source of salmonella outbreak

Health officials say red onions are to blame, but more varieties recalled in case of cross-contamination

Rose Shilling

August 3, 2020

Health investigators warn against eating red, white, yellow and sweet onions from Thomson International Inc. because of a salmonella outbreak that's shown up in two-thirds of states.

Wastewater Treatment

Why you may want to think seriously about wastewater treatment

With services and capabilities from POTWs decreasing, food and beverage processors will have to pick up the slack, but at what cost?

Wayne Labs

July 24, 2020

A combination of funding cuts, aging infrastructure, and new pollutants has pushed the responsibility for water treatment back upstream to the facilities that produce the wastewater. This means food and beverage processors and other manufacturers that generate copious amounts of wastewater.

Food Safety

Hostess recalls Raspberry Zingers that might mold

Snack maker says crème-filled cakes might go bad before expiration

Rose Shilling

July 23, 2020

Hostess Brands recalled Raspberry Zingers because the snack cakes might develop mold before the best by date.

Temperature Monitoring and Control

Making the argument for wireless temperature solutions

Not every temperature measurement application needs to be wireless, but for some locations, IIoT wireless connections may be the only practical choice

July 22, 2020

Time was when your wired control network, either a proprietary DCS or more modern Ethernet-based system, could easily accommodate that extra temperature monitoring point you needed to add in your process to improve the quality of, for example, your baking or drying process. That is, provided you had a cable drop where you needed to add in a sensor, and the control software you were using would easily accommodate it.

On Demand Kelley Rodriguez, Editor in Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, will be joined in this 60-minute webinar by industry experts to help unpack the latest research.

On Demand Driven by climate goals, business risk, client interest, and resilience considerations, food and beverage companies are increasingly turning their attention to decarbonizing their production processes.