Unified Brands, Conyers, Ga., launched new touch-screen temperature controls for sous vide and cook-chill solutions in foodservice operations.

Cook-in-bag solutions are fast permeating the retail outlets, as part of a strategy to curtail food poisoning linked with high levels of bacterium campylobacter, according to a study produced by Fact.MR, Rockville, Md.

Package Concepts and Materials, Inc. (PCM) added a 30,000-square-foot production facility to its Greenville, S.C., headquarters campus.

TCL Packaging, London, in partnership with B&G Products, also based in London, developed what is said to be the first of its kind printed, stand-up, ovenable pouch for a range of frozen, fish-based, cook-in-the-bag meals.

Smithfield Foodservice now offers Cook-in-Bag Smoked Pork Butt, making it easy for operators to maintain fresh pork quality and right-from-the-smoker taste without the need for special cooking equipment.

Sandridge Food Corp., Medina, Ohio, acquired a majority interest in RMH Foods, LLC, a Morton, Ill.-based producer of fully cooked refrigerated and frozen entrées for retail and foodservice.