Azodicarbonamide, or ADO, is a chemical foaming agent that came under fire after a successful campaign to remove it from Subway breads.

Intended for ice cream production, the Tetra Pak ingredient doser 4000A 2.0 has an auger and hopper outlet to minimize the breaking and lumping of ingredients.

Azodicarbonamide, a plastic-based additive, is also found in yoga mats and shoe soles.

The agency says the extension is in response to multiple stakeholder requests.

Because consuming trans fat is harmful even at low levels, researchers urged manufacturers to renew efforts to discontinue or reformulate products containing them.

Brominated vegeteable oil was patented as a flame retardant.

The Cornucopia Institute, a national organic industry watchdog group, has urged the members of USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to vote to preserve the integrity of organic food and farming at its meeting in Savannah, GA. The USDA meeting was planned for the end of November.

While it was once common for operators to apprentice under experienced bakers to learn the business, today’s bakery operators are usually less trained and more prone to making mistakes on the plant floor, especially if batch instructions and records are kept on paper.