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The year 2022 marks a significant impasse for a variety of food safety-related regulations on the American Frozen Food Institute’s (AFFI) public policy agenda that should also be top of mind for your company.

Many food and beverage companies seeking to increase capacity in response to consumer-driven success are finding it difficult to quickly bring new facilities online due to current market conditions and continued supply chain disruptions.

As the cold chain responded to the challenges of 2021, each of our five Processors to Watch overcame an unprecedented year, growing their brands and positioning them to take off in 2022.

For the latest information on innovative equipment for the cold chain, please visit R&FF’s Technology Showcase section on our website.

Check out the latest plant-based foods and beverages in grocery stores today.

Third-party audits are seen as a crucial component for food organizations today, meeting customer or corporate requirements, while providing them transparency and assurance. Unfortunately, just the mention of an audit is enough to stress some people.

The cellular structures that protect meat and meat fibers during a rapid freeze do not exist for plant-based products. The crystal growth protections afforded to animal proteins are not natively present in plant-based systems.

The need for speed has never been greater along the cold chain, as last-mile demands dictated by the continued rise of e-commerce has added to an already breakneck pace spurred by record sales and increased traffic for cold foods over the past 18 months.  Somewhere amid the rush to build new distribution hubs and cold storage spaces is the ubiquitous and often overlooked pallet. Without it, few of the products expedited to market would reach their destinations on time.