With the goal of lowering CIP process costs, a dairy producer and processor collaborated with Pall to implement a microfiltration solution, ultimately reducing operating costs and environmental footprint.

Explore solutions utilized by the Jimmy Dean brand, part of the Hillshire Brands portfolio, to address weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls that was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue.

Learn how Sleeman Breweries grew their production, improved process control, and avoided the high expense of building a new greenfield facility.

Learn how a new filtration process helped Full Sail Brewing Company use water more efficiently while creating less waste and helping preserve a unique employee culture.

Chocolates Valor S.A. produces high-quality chocolate bars, chocolates and snacks. The company invested in digitalization solutions for the production environment, in particular through Preactor APS, which is a family of products for production planning and programming that improves the synchronization of manufacturing processes and offers greater visibility and control. It showed an immediate return on investment.

Gruppo Campari closed 26 acquisitions in the spirits industry in the past two decades to become the world’s sixth player, with over 50 premium and super-premium brands. With each acquisition, Gruppo Campari needs to integrate new products, plants and assets into its operations management systems. By 2012 they realized there was no standard workflow for document authoring and validation, and information was shared via email or phone. Using Siemens technology, Gruppo Campari has created a unified repository for all product specifications and increased the efficiency of product development and manufacturing processes.

The rise in consumer awareness and demand for greater transparency has led to changes in regulations worldwide. In response to greenwashing in the food sector, as well as other industries, regulatory authorities are stepping up efforts to hold organizations accountable for their green claims.

Food fraud is a big topic at the moment and there are multiple challenges within any supply chain, especially these days where supply chains are global, have multiple players and where profits can be huge. In this column, I will detail some of the major obstacles in the organic food supply chain and show some practical applications which can reduce fraud within it.

The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act is designed to standardize food safety within the U.S. and countries importing food to the U.S. Now that the Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF) rules have been finalized, compliance dates are just a couple of years away, and even some documentation is required in less than one year.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (signed by President Obama in January 2011), and the e-Pedigree law, set to take effect in January 2015 should drive demand for Intelleflex’ solutions, and asset tracking technologies in general

In this Q&A,  Mike Odom, general manager, product inspection business unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific, gives his insights into the challenges of product inspection, the advantages of inspection technology, the FDA recommendations for inspection, and how product inspection will evolve in the future.