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Keeping up with the e-commerce expansion

Tom Egan

January 17, 2020

As consumers demand greater convenience, e-commerce sales continue to rise.

Understanding quality and safety considerations for cannabis-infused baked goods

Understanding ingredients dynamics is essential before entering the market for cannabis-infused foods

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

January 16, 2020

The 2018 Farm Bill cleared the pathway for legal cultivation of industrial hemp in the U.S. Botanically, non-psychoactive industrial hemp and psychoactive cannabis are identical, classified as Cannabis sativa.

Hygiene, flexibility among top priorities for belt, conveyor customers

Customers want easy-to-use belts and conveyors that also maximize energy efficiency and durability.

Ed Finkel

January 15, 2020

Snack and bakery industry customers want belts and conveyors that are fast and easy to clean, maximize energy efficiency, offer strength and durability, require as few tools as possible, and provide flexibility to either switch out products and/or run multiple products at once.

Inspection/detection continues to advance in the snack and baking industry

X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing and vision systems improve quality control

Neal Lorenzi

January 13, 2020

X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing and vision systems continue to advance, offering bakery and snack producers many ways to improve their quality control programs. Today's sophisticated inspection equipment can detect smaller foreign objects, reduce false rejects, and handle a wider range of products to assure maximum food safety along with higher productivity.

2020 food trends: Let grain foods be thy medicine

Michael Holleman

January 10, 2020

Hippocrates is famously credited with saying, "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Often referred to as "The Father of Medicine," Hippocrates perhaps made this declaration somewhere around 400 BC, best historians can tell.

ERP software improves features, product development for 2020

Companies look for efficiency and clarity in ERP software for the snack and baking industry

Liz Parker Kuhn

January 9, 2020

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is extremely useful for snack and bakery companies, including its ability to track ingredients and other tasks, thereby making companies more efficient.

Increased demand for reduced sugar drives sweetening solutions

Keeping an eye on added sugars is the new normal

Joyce Friedberg

January 8, 2020

Sugar is now squarely top of mind for consumers. According to the 2019 International Food Information Council (IFIC) "Food & Health" survey, limiting sugar intake is one of the top ways in which consumer diets have changed over the past several years, and 80 percent of consumers are trying to limit and/or avoid added sugars.

The Best New Snack & Bakery Products of 2019

Pretzels from a famous Boston chef and a special offering from one of the most-beloved companies in baking climb to the top of voting for the year.

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

January 7, 2020

In 2015, we launched the "Best New Snack & Bakery Products" of the year contest to honor outstanding new snack and bakery products entering the industry, with the online SF&WB audience voting for their favorites.

MADISON GREEN environmentally-friendly all-purpose cleaner

December 25, 2019

Madison Chemical introduces MADISON GREEN, a mildly alkaline, environmentally friendly, biodegradable general-purpose cleaner that is highly effective on greasy and waxy soils, such as; conveyors, floors, packaging equipment, etc.

Flexco Receives BISSC 3rd Party Verification on FGP Food Grade Precleaner

Flexco receives BISSC Third Party Verification on FGP food grade precleaner

December 25, 2019

Flexco recently announced that its FGP Food Grade Precleaner has achieved Baking Industry Sanitation Standards Committee (BISSC) 3rd Party Verification.