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In the February 2020 issue of Food Engineering, we outline how to prepare backups for your automation systems in the event of power spikes, outages and viruses or cyber attacks.
If you haven’t become serious about backups, it’s time to do so now—before a key system goes down and puts you out of business while you try to recover.
Handwashing is an essential element for ensuring food safety, whether food is being processed or handled in a plant, prepared in a restaurant or foodservice outlet, or cooked at home.
In last year’s February issue, I wrote about how I was trying to overcome the depressing sight of snow and ice on the ground by thinking ahead to April and our annual Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference in Miami. The more things change …
Consumer desires and modern lifestyles continue to facilitate a shift in how people perceive food, according to "Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing" from PMMI.
In an effort to allow FDA to sample water, soil and environmental conditions on USDA-regulated concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), New York Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand introduced a bill that would provide the FDA authority to conduct microbial sampling on CAFOs as necessary for a foodborne illness outbreak investigation, determine the outbreak’s root cause or address other public health needs.
The FDA has reopened the comment period for the proposed rule published in the Federal Register of Oct. 19, 2005, entitled “Cheeses and Related Cheese Products; Proposal to Permit the Use of Ultrafiltered Milk.”
The FDA has issued final guidance to help manufacturers of packaged foods comply with the updated Nutrition Facts labeling regulations, which addresses serving sizes of foods, including single-serving foods and other foods that can reasonably be consumed at one eating occasion and require dual-column labeling.
Crown Holdings packaging company recognized its facilities that make transit packaging for their sustainability efforts including reclaiming waste and reducing energy use.
Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs wants you to say goodbye to single-use egg cartons and bring a sturdy plastic one to the store trip after trip to reload with eggs.
PacMoore Products Inc., a Hammond, Ind.-based contract food manufacturer, needed equipment that would help maintain high throughput and product integrity.
Custom designed dual strand, roller chain conveyor with bucket-style attachments was made to transport bread loaves that ultimately end up at a robotic pick zone.
Automatic micro and tote batching systems are custom designed and typically include supply bins, feeders, work platforms, automatic or manual bin refilling, liquid tank/pump skid equipment and the dry and liquid dosing automatic control system.
Quality control solutions include a high-speed checkweigher for various packages, an ultracompact X-ray scanner measuring 70 cm wide, and a serialization unit that offers pharma-level traceability for all relevant applications.
The Spray Dynamics coating drum provides variable tilt frame assembly, and the product flight design exposes each piece of product to liquid and dry coating applications.
The custom mixing system is designed to provide a specific percentage of proteins in the end product, operating continuously at a dairy processing plant.
Organic, nonthermal Neo-Pure food safety system is made to pasteurize nuts, seeds and grains and increases throughput, efficiency and cost savings for food processors.
The PG series of Airos compressed air filters, regulators, lubricators and accessories offers micro-fog lubricators for more complex circuit paths, vapor removal filter options for ultra-sensitive applications and more.
Unfired steam generators produce clean steam with steam or high temperature hot water as an energy source and are suitable for clean steam applications, humidification, sterilization, food processing and parts cleaning.
