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Food Processing January 2005 John Stanton |
Market View: Obesity: Take the offensive Who is more at fault for obesity, the advertising for McDonald's or the unbearable pressure kids feel from school, peers and parents? Obesity is an important and complex issue, and just focusing on food and overeating is too simple.  |
Food Processing January 2005 Diane Toops |
Toops Scoops: Dig deeper Harvey Hartman, founder and CEO of the Hartman Group, a consulting and market research firm, zeros in on how consumers live, shop and buy food and beverage products. He says you must dig deep and avoid common blunders to determine consumer insights.  |
Food Processing January 2005 David Joy |
Regulatory Issues: The FDA agenda for 2005 As in the past, the FDA has a full agenda of food regulatory matters in 2005. So it's not good that the FDA's scientists are demoralized and the agency stands accused of being too friendly with a regulated industry.  |
Food Processing January 2005 Judy Rice |
RFID on your package: No pain, no gain? Implementation of radio frequency identification technology isn't as simple as just slapping an RFID tag on a shipping case or pallet. Here are the critical considerations before implementing this technology ... and some available outside help.  |
Food Processing January 2005 Jack Neff |
RFID: Track and (t)race The key for most companies to get ready for RFID isn't necessarily to hop on the bandwagon, but to re-examine another industry supply chain issue -- data synchronization.  |
Food Processing January 2005 Mike Pehanich |
Where has the engineering talent gone? A decade of downsizing -- and outsourcing -- has sent former food industry innovators to engineering firms -- where anybody can hire them. In the meantime, small entrepreneurial firms have been filling in the design and fabrication gaps for food processing companies.  |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 Jim Getchell |
Engineering Brain Drain? New Strategies for Coping Does the food industry still have the engineering competencies to deliver innovation and great bottom line results? It's business challenges are as intense as ever, and the winners will be the ones who can uncover the keys to successfully converting the opportunities to real business results.  |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 |
To off-shore or not to off-shore To date, the food manufacturing industry is taking a slow approach to off-shoring its engineering work. However, several companies have trial projects underway with overseas engineering services firms.  |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 |
Is preventive maintenance worth it? For many businesses, a planned maintenance strategy is critical. Yet nearly 68 percent of the respondents to a survey of the food and beverage industry say they allocate less than half of their maintenance budgets for preventive activities that reduce equipment failure and plant shutdown.  |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Molson plans Canadian brewery... Campbell Soup's Napoleon plant includes flexible production lines... Tropical Beverage has water testing plant in Santa Ana... Maple Leaf Bakery adds production line in Roanoke... Cereal Ingredients builds facility, headquarters in Leavenworth...  |
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