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Food Packaging

Color-changing ink to check HPP packaging

October 14, 2019

A specialty ink company is offering a new version of its color-changing technology to detect individual packages that failed during high pressure processing.

Regulatory Watch

Seafood guidance updated

Sharon Spielman

October 14, 2019

New chapters and sections of the Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, including the updated 21 CFR Part 123—Fish and Fishery Products, were updated by the FDA in August.

FIT for the future as food equipment technicians

Sharon Spielman

October 9, 2019

At a press conference at Process Expo on Wednesday, October 9, the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) announced the launch of the Food Industry Technician (FIT) certification program in association with Lincoln Technical Institute.

Grand Strand chicken salad sandwich recall

Food Safety

Tip Top Poultry, FDA release growing list of retailers, labels in listeria recall

Recall includes RTE poultry made throughout 2019

Rose Shilling

October 9, 2019

Tip Top Poultry Inc. and the FDA provided a wider picture of the reach of a ready-to-eat chicken recall for possible listeria. The chicken went in heat-and-eat meals, sandwiches and deli salads at major grocery stores and a few restaurants.

Plant Openings

Plant Openings & Expansions: October 2019

October 7, 2019

Announcements about new food and beverage plant construction projects, plant renovations and plant expansions.

Food Packaging

Orb bottles will now be allowed on planes

Rose Shilling

October 7, 2019

After many sarcastic tweets from the public, the TSA reconsidered its ban on souvenir Coke bottles from Disney’s new Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge.

Food Safety

ADM flour recall expands: King Arthur pulls more bags for possible E. coli

FDA says strain matches E. coli that prompted flour recalls over the summer

Rose Shilling

October 4, 2019

Recalls of flour milled by ADM Milling Company continue. The FDA notified the company that samples of flour from two production lots manufactured in late 2018 tested positive for E. coli.

Food Safety

More brands pull chicken salad from shelves; deli-style sandwiches added to recall

Reach of ingredient supplier’s recall is expanding

Rose Shilling

October 3, 2019

Tip Top Poultry’s recall of ready-to-eat chicken for possible listeria has spread to more brands of chicken salad and packaged sandwiches, some sold at Walmart and Target.

Food Safety

Lipari Foods recalls chicken salad for possible listeria

Sandwiches and bulk salad went to 15 states

Rose Shilling

October 2, 2019

Lipari Foods recalled bulk chicken salad and sandwiches made with the salad that may be contaminated with listeria.

Android is not just for smartphones—it’s for smart low-temp operations too

Despite the critical need for accountability, many processing facilities and distribution centers are using devices that run on legacy Windows systems.

September 27, 2019

More and more plants and distribution centers are turning to panel PCs that have Android operating systems for monitoring and controlling low-temp processing and material handling operations.