Linde LLC offers a new food industry white paper explaining the use and advantages of advanced mixer chilling systems that can help food processors chill products with improved food safety, high efficiency and repeatability while reducing costs.
Stephanie Lopez, AIB International’s vice president for food-safety services innovation, replaces Gary Skrdlant as president of AIBI Certification Services.
D.D. Williamson acquires Danisco USA Inc.’s food-coloring product line and related processing equipment. Danisco has been a part of DuPont Nutrition & Health since 2011.
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) issues the first edition of its Food Safety Auditor Competencies on its website. Available for download, the framework is the culmination of three years of work by the multidisciplinary GFSI Auditor Competence Working Group, mandated to define generic food-safety auditor competencies underpinning GFSI benchmarked schemes, and the mechanisms by which they can be assessed and verified.
The emphasis on food safety has been constantly shifting and evolving. Traceability was an initial focus; then came the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) practices, which impacted manufacturing. More recently, the Global Food Initiative was created to improve food safety supply chain management.
The GFSI Focus Day was initiated to address those Frequently Asked Questions about the initiative and its activities around the world. After the success of previous years’ editions around the world, Beijing is the first stop for the Focus Day in China to raise awareness around the benefits of GFSI as the demand for primary and processed goods from this region of the world has grown significantly over the past years. Read More
