Best practices at the highly automated Mountain View Foods plant in Denver preserve milk’s freshness and help Kroger develop innovative dairy-based products.

Ingredient diversity—combined with creative died and a revival of extrusion technology—has injected a strong level of innovation into the extruded snack world of late.

Despite the nation’s economic turmoil and the ongoing food recalls and contamination problems, the world of high-pressure processing (HPP) has remained robust.

Programs will include a focus on packaging technology and feature professors from major universities.