Global snack manufacturer, Mondelez International, has chosen MetricStream to provide a comprehensive solution for quality audit and material traceability management. Deployed and managed from their audit headquarters in Munich, Germany, ...
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After years of focus on cost reductions and operational efficiencies, executives and producers in the food and beverage industry are feeling confident again, according to the 2013 Grant Thornton Global Food and Beverage study "Hunger for ...
In response to the growing financial impact and frequency of product recalls for food and beverage manufacturers, distributors and importers in the U.S. and Europe, American International Group (AIG) today launched NOVI, a web-based service ...
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today that Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Value and Innovation in Health Care, Brookings Institution, will join the Board of ...
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A new study indicates that Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) used to ship fruit and vegetables in Canada pose a risk for contamination. The report, developed by a University of Guelph researcher, calls the possibility for ...
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Costco’s El Camino Real store, based in San Francisco, California, is recalling about 39,755 pounds of rotisserie chicken products over concerns of Salmonella Heidelberg contamination, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food ...
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today reviewed Foster Farms' safety plan for its three California facilities in Livingston and Fresno. This follows Foster Farms' implementation of several new food safety controls over the ...
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Ecological light conversion glass, is a kind of glass that could improve efficiency of agriculture productivity. It is launched in AODE Glass Group in Hebei province. Currently, it gained fifty national patents, which could be applied in ...
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The DuPont BAX System has been certified by the AOAC Research Institute as a Performance Tested Method (PTM) for detecting Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) in beef trim and ground beef. "With this certification, our entire portfolio of ...
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In the wake of growing demand by retailers and major food brands, food packaging companies are stepping up their efforts to satisfy customers by seeking Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification. Speaking Tuesday at Pack Expo 2013, Chip Wood, ...
Tags: Packagers, Food Safety, SQF Certification
Vormittag Associates, a leading ERP software provider, will be demonstrating best practices in food distribution and manufacturing applications, in booth #822 at the 2013 IFDA Distribution Solutions Conference, taking place October 14-16 in ...
US-based paperboard packaging firm Zumbiel Packaging has secured an ISO-based food safety certification, FSSC 22000. Zumbiel Packaging, in a bid to achieve industry certification for its facility, has successfully implemented all ...
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued an alert on Foster Farms' raw chicken products over concerns that they are linked to illness caused by strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. The ...
Thermochromic inks manufacturer Chromatic Technologies (CTI) has developed new package indicators known as ‘reveal inks’ in an effort to reduce illness caused by food poisoning. The package indicators are said to provide ...
Chromatic Technologies (CTI), a manufacturer of thermochromic inks, has unveiled a patent-pending package indicator - ‘reveal inks,’ which provide 'return to fridge' reminders to products such as milk, yogurt, salsa, pickles and ...