There are five words that no one in the food industry ever wants to hear—Listeria positive in finished product. Normally, I would not start a communication with this type of dramatic statement.
Traceability. Recalls. Fraud. Cargo theft. National security. These are all buzzwords to describe the food industry’s daily challenges in securing and protecting America’s food chains.
Last year, the International Poultry Expo, International Feed Expo and International Meat Expo integrated their trade shows as the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE).
Word in the halls of Process Expo 2013 was that some of our readers flip through Refrigerated & Frozen Foodsback to front instead of front to back. No, it’s not a Jewish thing or a Wisconsin thing (a friendly jab to my rival Packers fans, ha ha), but more or less an ad index thing.
Gone are the days of operators manually monitoring lines, adjusting and re-adjusting switches and scribbling results in a notebook. That’s because today’s operators can monitor energy usage, food safety measures and line efficiency across multiple plants or locations with a press of a button.
Learn how processors and cold storage providers can benefit from technology that tracks both vehicle refrigeration performance and overall fleet performance in a single system.