The air around your product should be maintained just like all equipment and product itself. The air intake system should be part of your sanitary design program, evaluating the design to ensure inspection and cleaning hatches are installed at various points for proper maintenance.

We Americans tend to obsess over size. We revel in Big Data. Big Brother is watching. Theodore Roosevelt advised, "Speak softly and carry a Big Stick."

So you plan on implementing lean manufacturing at your plant, and you wonder what impact it will have on your culture. It will have a huge impact. If it doesn't, you did not successfully roll out lean.

Consumers are weary of words like "chlorinated," "bleached" and "aluminum" on ingredient labels. While every baker is saying "But we've used these for ages!" this reason doesn't sit well with consumer groups and buyers like Whole Foods.

The merger of the Biscuit & Cracker Manufacturers Association (B&CMA) with the American Bakers Association (ABA) is reaping the anticipated benefits. Perhaps even more. The "Stronger Together" tour has officially ended, but the synergies continue to build.

We recently held the annual Sanitary Design Workshop in Chicago, and this important food safety training event continues to get better every year (Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery is the exclusive media sponsor of the event).

When NMI began conducting research on the eco-marketplace in 2002, sustainability was novel enough that it was only relevant to approximately 20 percent of the population.

Could puffed, crisped or popped intact whole grains replace extruded rice and grains? They will likely coexist, but they do offer points of differentiation worth considering in your next snack-ideation session.

Nicole Bernard Dawes is a truly remarkable woman. At a young age, she strode into a crowded snack marketplace holding fast to a dream—and strong ideals—only to find roadblock after roadblock in her path.

During the tumultuous first year of the Trump Administration, the untold story has been the significant efforts to mitigate the numerous regulatory overreaches by the Obama Administration.