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It doesn’t feel like Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery is 100 years old, and that’s partly because we have changed names, formats, management, ownership and staffs several times throughout our long existence.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), what’s being called the most sweeping reform of the U.S. food safety laws in more than 70 years, signed into law last January 4, aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), Washington, announces that Glenn Black, director of science operations, food protection, will chair its newly formed Food Safety Preventive Controls (FSPC) Alliance Steering and Executive Committee.

Even in a year when global food prices hit record highs and both restaurant menus and retail food labels got a new look, the safety of the American food supply dominated the headlines and tops a list that asks Americans to choose the most significant food story of 2011.

A critical aspect on any production line, the package handling function may require one conveyor section, multiple lanes or hundreds of integrated material handling accumulators, elevators, lowerators, robotics, controllers and more. We asked several manufacturers what’s new in package handling equipment and systems to make your manufacturing operation more productive.

Family-owned Grecian Delight Foods recently opened a second production facility, devoted to producing frozen flatbreads. Take a tour of the state-of-the-art, 130,000-sq.-ft. facility.

Executive Editor Marina Mayer sounds off on 10 things she’s thankful for in the snack and bakery market.

The FDA unveiled a Retail Food Safety Action Plan that includes measures to help ensure the safety of food sold in stores, restaurants, schools and foodservice operations, and focuses on improving the way managers of such establishments conduct food safety operations in their facilities.

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Food safety has been a hot-button issue for some time, says editor-in-chief Lauren R. Hartman. But are we really meeting the goals?