Kevin T. Higgins

Packaging systems are being designed to meet the food safety imperative.

With the outdoor barbecue season in full swing, cases of foodborne illnesses are at their annual peak.

Buoyed by wide acceptance in the UK, Multivac Inc. is mounting a North American push for VisionSeal, a system that delivers hermetically sealed packages of cooked meats and raw chicken.

Advances in filtration technology are making new products possible in food and beverage.

With safety advocates demanding regime change for microbial life forms in food plants, processors are evaluating new systems that may or may not be effective.

Process control can only advance as far as technology will let it. Happily, those tools continue to improve.

New soft-drink facilities have become a rarity. That put added pressure to do it right with Pepsi Bottling Ventures’ North Carolina greenfield project.

As Food Engineering’s Automation & Manufacturing Conference made clear, processors have to cope with a lot more issues than increased throughput in today’s market.

Significant hurdles had to be overcome to bring FMC FoodTech’s freezer design up to a higher food-safety standard.

Market pressures are prompting food company executives to invest in data-collection systems to improve product consistency and yield.