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41. Permanent Slippery Coatings For Food Packaging: What You Need To Know 6/2/2015

    Slippery coatings that allow foods to easily slide out of their packaging can be a great benefit to the food industry and an important step in eliminating food waste, but as with most innovations that come into contact with food, it is important to have all the relevant information.

42. How Third-Party Shippers Benefit Cold Chain Management 6/2/2015

    With regulations growing more stringent, the landscape continues to grow in complexity for food carriers using the cold chain. New, cold chain management technology, along with outside help, can ease these burdens.

43. How FSMA Could've Helped ConAgra 5/29/2015

    FSMA is the catalyst of big changes in the food industry.  With food safety issues being an on-going concern, FSMA requirements aim to help prevent contamination problems faced by food manufacturers.

44. Food Traceability Technology: Seafood Is Climbing Aboard 5/28/2015

    In some sectors of the food industry, traceability measures have been in place for years, allowing product origins and journeys to tracked across the supply chain. However, the seafood industry has lagged behind. But fear not, Maine’s is helping to address that with the “Boat to Plate” project.

45. Shifting Consumer Preferences Create Opportunities For The Beverage Packaging Market 5/27/2015

    Liquid packaging cartons are used for a variety of products — water, dairy, juices, and soft drinks — and with consumers showing a growing preference for convenience products, this packaging format is expected to experience increased demand in the coming years.

46. Industry Leaders Convene At Expo Milano 2015 To Address Global Food Security 5/22/2015

    Global food security is one of the most important challenges facing the food industry, and industry leaders are working to find solutions through collaboration and innovation.

47. PepsiCo Plans To Abandon Aspartame In Diet Pepsi 5/22/2015

    Diet Pepsi drinkers may soon find their favorite drink has made a change. The voice of the consumer has been heard and after years of using aspartame in its signature diet soda, PepsiCo is making a switch to other artificial sweeteners.

48. ERP May Deliver Best Practices For Safe Food Transport 5/21/2015

    Foodborne illnesses affect nearly 50 million Americans each year and according to the CDC. Compounding this problem are the countless types of food and the associated ways to handle and transport them. FSMA’s Sanitary Transportation of Human Food aims to provide some relief to the situation, but food companies are going to need some help and enterprise resource planning technology may provide the way.

49. Traceability And Transparency Are Key Aspects Of Food Pathogen Testing 5/20/2015

    FSMA regulations require food manufacturers and processors to be proactive in their approach to food-safety events. Because of this, many food producing companies are beefing up traceability practices within their supply chains. Adding even more urgency to bolstering traceability practices is the growing complexity and global nature of modern supply chains, along with consumers demanding to know who harvested and transported the food product, where the food and its ingredients came from, and how the food was handled on its journey from harvest to table.

50. 6 Ways To Create A Leaner Supply Chain 5/19/2015

    Over one-third of all food produced in the U.S. and around the world may be lost through spoilage or expiration every year. While the food industry works to reduce this number with improved refrigeration and increased efficiencies in the global food supply chain, it may be having an effect at your company. Implementing a plan for a lean supply chain can not only help to reduce worldwide waste, it can improve your company’s bottom line.