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TOMRA Sorting Food announces brand unification

TOMRA Sorting Food has announced the BEST Sorting and ODENBERG legacy brands will be retired. The company will progress as a single, unified brand und... continue reading »

Pickles are big business in small North Carolina town

The Mt. Olive Pickle Company is Mt. Olive, North Carolina. Generations from the same families have and continue to work in the plant, which produce... continue reading »

Three things to know about new FSMA produce safety rule

The produce safety rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act goes into effect Jan. 26. Growers may have a lot of questions about the Food Safety... continue reading »

What labor in a produce processing plant might look like in the decades ahead

The world is moving fast and we are only at the beginning of a new era in technological progression, which is why the produce processing pl... continue reading »

Baldor launches program to fight food waste

Baldor Specialty Foods announced will implement a comprehensive plan to eliminate all organic waste destined for the landfill. The initiative is ancho... continue reading »

New program aids Ohio food processing industry

The Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has started a program to help benefit one of Ohio’s largest manufacturing sectors – the design,... continue reading »

Aquion acquires Procam Controls

In a strategic move to strengthen and diversify its water treatment brand portfolio, Aquion announced that it is acquiring Plano, Texas-based Procam ... continue reading »

3M adds salmonella testing to detection assay lineup

3M Food Safety has added the 3M Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Salmonella to its next generation 3M Molecular Detection Assays. This new test, enhanc... continue reading »

Three more final FSMA rules sent to Federal Register

FDA has submitted the final produce safety, foreign supplier verification and third party accreditation rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act to ... continue reading »

LINKFRESH schedules four ERP seminars about food

LINKFRESH, a provider of supply chain ERP solutions designed specifically for the fresh food industry, announced that it will host four additional web... continue reading »