PMMI, the producer and owner of Pack Expo, and the American Meat Institute (AMI), sponsor and producer of the International Meat, Poultry and Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition, have announced
In a merger of two prominent names in automation, Motoman Inc. is combining with Yaskawa Electric America Inc. Motoman, the second-largest robotics company in America, will form the Motoman Robotics
In the wake of the recent recall of E. coli-tainted romaine lettuce, the nation's oldest consumer organization, the National Consumers League is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to
A Canadian municipal composting program is telling consumers not to place SunChips bags in composting bins because they take too long to break down. SunChips, from the Frito-Lay unit of
Although interest in active and intelligent packaging is growing, a survey of food and beverage industry executives found that 57.3% of respondents were not at all aware or slightly aware
Food shoppers are increasingly hunting bargains, recipes and more in cyberspace, and mobile phones are a growing part of the phenomenon, according to a new Deloitte survey. The consulting firm’s
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is standing by her bid to ban controversial plastics additive bisphenol-A (BPA) from American food packaging. Feinstein added a BPA ban to the Food Safety
Alcohol sold in "test tubes" have come under criticism in the UK, but an industry ethics group cleared the concept.A liquor trade group in the United Kingdom has given its
Three major food-processor trade organizations have announced that their main shows will be co-located in Dallas in 2012. The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the American Meat Institute (AMI) and the
Owens-Illinois Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging, plans to cut energy consumption by 50% and carbon emissions by 65% over the next decade.With 2007 as a
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