The September 2022 issue of FOOD ENGINEERING features the Top 100 Food & Beverage Companies, Analytical Instrumentation: How Low Can You Go?, and much more!
After a brief stint in the top spot for PepsiCo, Nestlé reclaimed the mantle of top food and beverage producer by revenue in this year’s Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies. Plus, there was a massive jump in revenue reported by Archer Daniels Midland, giving the company enough to vault into the second spot, pushing PepsiCo down to third.
Residual and potentially dangerous chemicals in food and drinking water have been in the news lately (see this month’s Manufacturing News for an update on PFAS) as one such report found that 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in the U.S. contained glyphosate. FOOD ENGINEERING has also had its share of news on heavy metals in food and baby food. Why are we seeing so much contamination?
The pasta packaging was included in The Waste Age Exhibition hosted by the London Design Museum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which ran between October 2021 and February 2022.
The FDA has made available testing results for PFAS in seafood samples collected at retail.
September 7, 2022
In a Constituent Update issued by the FDA, the agency has made available testing results for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in seafood samples collected at retail. The FDA conducted this limited survey as a preliminary step to determine if a more targeted or larger seafood survey should be conducted.