If (or when) a food recall actually occurs, the ability to ensure real-time cradle-to-grave traceability makes it possible for a food company to keep its response within the scope of the actual contamination problem.
3M Food Safety, St. Paul, Minn., developed 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader, a peripheral device that serves as an automated alternative to manually counting and documenting colonies of bacteria.
For the past few years, consumers have been giving frozen snacks the cold shoulder. Until the cold food industry transformed the coveted snacking occasion into an all-day affair.
Although an average of 85% of restaurants, fine dining and quick-service restaurants offer appetizers on their menus, nearly 35% of consumers eat appetizers at home, according to a report produced by Datassential.
Frozen microwavable foods represent the largest and fastest growing microwavable foods product segment, according to a study produced by Persistence Market Research.