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31. New Product Development: The Challenges Of Decoding The Consumer Voice 1/8/2018

    In the food industry, the consumer’s voice is extremely important to keep in mind as new products and quality improvements are devised every day. We all strive for customer satisfaction, but the customer’s voice, documented through consumer surveys, complaint tracking, and social media, isn’t always satisfaction per se. To interpret the feedback and translate it into formulation changes and flavor concepts can be a skill in and of itself.

32. Why Food Manufacturing Needs An Unorthodox Approach 12/19/2017

    Food manufacturing is not a typical manufacturing operation; it faces unique dilemmas compared to conventional manufacturing. Because of this, the mindset of food manufacturers must also be unique. This article relates conventional manufacturing operations with food manufacturing, shows why the food industry needs a different mindset, and provides approaches to change the mentality of the industry.

33. 5 Food Safety Focus Areas For 2018 12/14/2017

    2017 was an incredible year for food safety filled with challenges in identifying key issues having a pivotal impacton the F&B industry. That said, I believe these five food safety topics brought revolutionary changes to the way the food industry tackled food safety issues and will alter how we approach food safety and how we do business in 2018 and beyond.

34. Third-Party Audits: Trials, Tribulations, And How To Exceed Requirements 12/6/2017

    GFSI schemes are used as the base requirement for many supply chain verification and supplier approval programs, but are customers using them independently? In many incidences, I've noted customers are taking only the GFSI certificate as a verification step without fully understanding the challenges the schemes are having. Here, I review those challenges.

35. Tackling Food Fraud: Inside The EU-China-Safe Partnership 11/28/2017

    Over the past decade, scandals related to adulterated and fake food have made international headlines and generated waves of consumer backlash. This column will explore a new partnership between China and The EU that aims to take down food fraud.

36. Spoetzl Brewery Treats Wastewater And Taps Into Green Energy With ADI-BVF® Reactor 11/28/2017

    Spoetzl Brewery, also known as the Shiner Brewing Association, is an independent brewery with a passion for handcrafting fine beers. Founded in 1909, Spoetzel has been recognized by many prestigious beer competitions such as the Australian International Beer Awards, the Great American Beer Festival, the European Beer Star, and the World Beer Cup.

37. Town Of Creston Pretreats Brewery Wastewater With ADI-BVF® Reactor 11/28/2017

    Creston is a town of approximately 5,000 people in southern British Columbia, Canada. Since 1959, Kokanee beer has been brewed in Creston at the Columbia Brewery, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev.

38. ADI Systems Helps Darigold Upgrade Its Wastewater Treatment System 11/28/2017

    Darigold is one of North America’s largest dairy co-ops. Farmer-owned since 1918, Darigold represents over 500 family farms across the Northwest. It produces milk, sour cream, and cottage cheese.

39. Wastewater Pretreatment System Helps Garelick Farms Reduce Loading To Local Sewer 11/28/2017

    Garelick Farms’ significant growth, in addition to that of other industries in the area, was straining the capacity of the Charles River Pollution Control District’s treatment facility. As a result, the District imposed pretreatment requirements of < 1000 lb (454 kg) per day of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). Garelick Farms required a reliable wastewater treatment solution to meet these limits.

40. Germicidal LEDs: A Viable Light Source For Food Safety 11/21/2017

    In addition to their use for Point-of-Use Water Disinfection, UV-C LED-based solutions have now been demonstrated to offer novel and unique approaches to food production sanitation.