CURRENT HEADLINES

• Sara Lee Frozen Bakery Plans $19.8 Million Expansion In Tarboro, North Carolina

  Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, a provider of baked desserts, treats and snacks, will invest an additional $19.8 million in its backer in Tarboro, North Carolina. The company plans to create 108 jobs as it expands its food manufacturing center in Edgecombe County.

• Joy Cone Expands Food Processing Operations In Mercer County, Pennsylvania

  Joy Cone, a food processing manufacturer, will expand its cookie manufacturing operations in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The project will help meet increasing market demand for cookie and wafer products.

• Dot Foods Expands Operations Facility In Bullhead City, Arizona

  Dot Foods, the largest foodservice redistribution company in North America, is expanding its operations hub in Bullhead City, Arizona.

• New Era Of Smarter Food Safety Arrives: How Inspection Tools And Technologies Align With The Approach

  As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to issue a strategic blueprint for the New Era of Smarter Food Safety in early 2020, food and beverage manufacturers – including dairy companies – can align with this new approach by focusing on deploying cutting-edge tools and technologies and strengthening their organizational food safety culture.

• Food And Pharma Equipment Leader Bosch Packaging Technology Is Now Syntegon

  Syntegon Technology is the new name among the market leaders in the processing and packaging industry.

• Anheuser-Busch To Invest $85M At Georgia Brewing Facility

  Anheuser-Busch will expand brewing capabilities at its production plant in Cartersville, Georgia. The company plans to invest $85M while creating 12 new jobs.

• Nitrogen-Fixing Genes Could Help Grow More Food Using Fewer Resources

  Scientists have transferred a collection of genes into plant-colonizing bacteria that let them draw nitrogen from the air and turn it into ammonia, a natural fertilizer.

• CHO Taps IBM Food Trust To Provide Insight On Quality And Origin Of Terra Delyssa Extra Virgin Olive Oil

  CHO, one of the largest producers of olive oil in the southern Mediterranean, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announce that CHO is using IBM Blockchain to provide traceability for its Terra Delyssa extra virgin olive oil across eight quality assurance checkpoints, including the orchard where the olives were grown, the mill where olives were crushed, and the facilities where the oil was filtered, bottled, distributed, and more.

• F.W. Ward Joins The Movement To Build The World’s Safest Food Supply Chain Adopting The Free iTrade Traceability Campaign

  F.W. Ward is the latest customer to join iTrade in building the world’s safest and most comprehensive global food supply chain.

• Food Industry Customers Turn To Eriez Metal Detector Quick Ship Program In Challenging, Time-Sensitive Situations

  Eriez’ Metal Detector Quick Ship Program is now the go-to solution for food industry professionals when they encounter issues with a metal detector that is utilized as a critical control point (CCP) in their company’s hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) program.