A recent white paper, entitled Developing and Engaging the Manufacturing Workforce, looks at consumer goods (mostly food and beverage) manufacturing and proposes some solutions to get these plants up to speed.
Global players disagreed on the answers to current food safety and labor safety challenges while a poll showed nearly one in five businesses concerned with food safety did not treat infection control as a risk.
Kronos Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of gyros and other Mediterranean and specialty foods, received USDA-certification as a dairy facility and will begin producing Greek yogurt specifically for the foodservice industry.
PepsiCo, Inc. announced that it and Tingyi Holding Corp., one of the leading food and beverage companies in China, have received all regulatory and shareholder approvals to create a strategic beverage alliance in China.
