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In the May issue of Food Engineering, we discuss the labor shortage in the manufacturing industry and share insights into how processors can recruit and retain skilled workers.
U.S. manufacturing is in the thick of an expected shortage of 2 million workers over 2015–2025. Talent is the top challenge among the evolving concerns of global executives.
Under the Intentional Adulteration rule, domestic and foreign food facilities are required to complete and maintain a written food defense plan that assesses their potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination where the intent is to cause wide-scale public health harm.
A new, portable contaminant detector—now in trials by food processors and supply chain participants—promises to make testing for unwanted chemical constituents much faster and easier, truly "on the spot."
USDA's FSIS and FDA released a formal agreement to address the regulatory oversight of human food products derived from the cells of livestock and poultry, which describes the oversight roles and responsibilities for both agencies and how they will collaborate to regulate the development and entry of these products into commerce.
J.D. Neuhaus Profi low-headroom, lightweight air hoists are insensitive to dust, humidity and temperatures from -20°C to 70°C in food production environments.
The Hinds-Bock griddle depositor for pancake and waffle batters deposits pure batter products or those with particulates, such as blueberries, chocolate chips and flavored bits.
Sized for laboratories, the Readco Kurimoto RK-1 tabletop continuous mixing processor combines heat transfer, mixing and shear to process multiple powdered, liquid and viscous ingredients in a single step.
Shimadzu GCMS NX series gas chromatograph mass spectrometers feature a sample injection port that can be opened and closed without tools and a column oven with a light that illuminates the immediate area.
Available on a pivot-design, single-post hydraulic lift, the Ross VMC-1000 VersaMix triple-shaft mixer can be raised from a vessel, rotated 90 degrees and lowered into another vessel.
The Piab piFLOWt conveyor guides product into the unit in a controlled, low-speed manner before transferring it between various processing units, such as coating drums and packaging lines.
