Articles by Kevin T. Higgins

The FDA warning letter was bad enough, but what really galled David Glasser was being lumped in with certain companies and singled out from others.

For the casual baker, premeasured packets of brown sugar proved to be a convenience they were willing to pay a premium for over the holiday baking season.

Researchers at Georgia Tech hope their intelligent deboning system will boost yields for poultry processors and reduce ergonomic stress on workers.

System integrators and packaging machine builders are engineering robotic systems that address the specific needs of food and beverage companies.

How much are dog owners willing to spend on quality pet food? Investors are betting a lot.

Forces greater than commodity prices are driving change in the way food companies manufacture products, and that will affect how automation technology is deployed.

Biosensors can detect everything from shoe bombs to the mycobacteria that cause tuberculosis. Can they also detect food-borne pathogens lurking in industrial-scale batches?

Emerging from 40 years in the background, Keystone Foods is asserting its capabilities as a contract manufacturer at its brand new Gadsden, AL facility.

As understanding of how nature adapts to the evolution of harmful microorganisms deepens, molecular biology is delivering new food safety tools, including bactericidal proteins.

By manipulating electrical current and frequency, an electrochemical reactor provides an alternative to chlorine in disinfecting some of food processing’s nastiest water streams.