Food Safety Magazine

Processing Technologies

Molecular and Supramolecular Design for Active and Edible Packaging Systems
Molecular and Supramolecular  Design for Active and Edible Packaging Systems

Currently, one of the most interesting approaches to improving the performance of active packaging systems is the development of hybrid organic-inorganic materials.

From Aseptic to Zip Pouch: Basic Packaging Material & Line Control
From Aseptic to Zip Pouch: Basic Packaging Material & Line Control

The best time to prevent food safety hazards from adversely affecting your operation is before accepting materials from your suppliers.

Modern Meat Safety: A Technological Toolbox
Modern Meat Safety: A Technological Toolbox

What has the industry been doing over the past 30 years to make meat safer?

Low-Oxygen Packaging with CO: A Study in Food Politics That Warrants Peer Review
Low-Oxygen Packaging with CO: A Study in Food Politics That Warrants Peer Review

Using CO in a modified atmosphere, the need for oxygen to achieve fresh-looking meat is eliminated.

Automating Process Controls with a Supply Chain View
Automating Process Controls with a Supply Chain View

Process control strategies have come a long way but need to be adopted by all members of the supply chain to be truly effective.

Bridging the Quality Control Gap: How Six Sigma Can Increase Plant Food Safety and Profitability
Bridging the Quality Control Gap: How Six Sigma Can Increase Plant Food Safety and Profitability

For food safety professionals to retain a value-perceived position in the industry, it is critical for them to truly understand the business.

FDA Regulation of Food Packaging Produced Using Nanotechnology
FDA Regulation of Food Packaging Produced Using Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles are being studied for use in improving packaging to prolong shelf life and increase barrier properties to reduce contamination.

Assuring Water Quality and Safety in Food Processing
Assuring Water Quality and Safety in Food Processing

Processors should conduct an audit of the water and plumbing systems.


Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Making the Business Case for New Technologies
Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Making the Business Case for New Technologies

A strong and convincing case for the use of new food safety technologies must be made in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders.

Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Investing in Process Validation of Novel Technologies
Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Investing in Process Validation of Novel Technologies

How does one know with a high level of confidence that new food safety technologies don’t introduce unforeseen negative side effects in terms of food safety parameters?

High-pressure Processing: A Step Toward Sustainability?
High-pressure Processing: A Step Toward Sustainability?

High pressure-processed product has environmental benefits compared to conventional, heat-treated product in terms of the decreased energy required for processing.

Top Tips to Make Your CIP and COP Systems Work For You
Top Tips to Make Your CIP and COP Systems Work For You

Here are a few tips to best-practice approaches in using CIP and COP systems to their fullest potential as process control measures.

Building an Effective Calibration Program
Building an Effective Calibration Program

All instruments used for ensuring quality, safety, sanitation and legal compliance must be calibrated.

Cook-chill Reduced-oxygen Packaging in Retail and Foodservice Operations
Cook-chill Reduced-oxygen Packaging in Retail and Foodservice Operations

The cook-chill process also decreases labor, product handling and chances of cross-contamination of foods.

Novel Processing Technologies: Chemical Reactions
Novel Processing Technologies: Chemical Reactions

Introduction of new processing technologies also requires analytical procedures for the determination of which biomolecules are affecting food quality.
 

Fresherized Foods: Success Under Pressure
Fresherized Foods: Success Under Pressure

Fresherized Foods’ is committed to advancing high-pressure processing technology and its applications by actively collaborating with stakeholders and experts in the field.

Breaking the Perishable Products Paradigm: Hurdle Technology Solutions from Field to Fork
Breaking the Perishable Products Paradigm: Hurdle Technology Solutions from Field to Fork

Refrigerated, perishable products offer a unique level of complexity since there is no singular technology to assure product safety for the broad spectrum of products that exist.

Noroviruses in Shellfish and Other Foods: Challenges of the 21st Century
Noroviruses in Shellfish and Other Foods:  Challenges of the 21st Century

Several methods have been developed to extract and test for total norovirus contamination in foods; however, there are no internationally recognized standard methods to date.