Issue Archive

Web Seminar: Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy
The Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, associated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, offers a web-based seminar featuring speakers from Bendix Commercial Vehicles, Ernst & Young and the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.

Tips to avoid counterfeits
With the growth of counterfeit parts, there are a number of practices that management, plant and maintenance personnel can take to avoid them.

Risky business: Counterfeit and fake parts
The savings can be short-term when replacing OEM parts and assemblies with ones of questionable origin.

Toops Scoops: Sweet talkin’
All Candy Expo brings out the inner child.

Editor's Plate: For public consumption
Processors should take the initiative against pseudoscience health reporting.

Regulatory Issues: New rules on reporting contamination
Manufacturers will not have the option of handing recalls quietly. Information may even appear on FDA’s web site.

Got milk … packaging?
Lessons can be learned from dairy processors that are designing packages to attract kids, boost brands and deliver convenience.

Equipment Round-Up: Instrumentation & process control
November's equipment round-up features instrumentation and process control equipment, including coriolis solutions, industrial computers and microprocessor-based controllers truck.

Kids applaud healthier candy bar
Our panel of eighth-graders say Nestle's Butterfinger Stixx are 'like a regular Butterfinger, only lighter.'

Our favorite products of 2007
After 11 months of shopping, we reveal the 10 new products we buy ourselves and why we love them.

Something in the air
Aroma is the first cousin of taste. In fact, much of what we call taste is an intricately entwined matrix of flavor, aroma chemicals and texture or mouthfeel.

Ingredient Round-Up: Starches
November's Ingredient Round-Up features starches. Read on for the latest formulations from National Starch Food Innovation, A&B Ingredients and many more.

Rollout: November's best new products
The latest new food products for November include a new line of Campbell soups, double-churned nearly fat free ice cream, and sweet and savory chips. Read on for more, including web exclusives

Hooked on spices
If you can stand the heat, you just may hang around the kitchen a little longer. That’s the message coming out of the research into the benefits of our favorite spices.

Packaged goods leaders form greenhouse gas coalition
Some of the world’s highest profile food companies have begun a campaign to encourage their suppliers to report greenhouse-gas emissions – in the process, pressuring thousands of vendors and factories to take steps to battle climate change.