In every level of snack and bakery production, allergen control is of utmost importance. Training operations staff on best practices is vital, and systems to keep personnel continually on track are also essential.
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.
Pest prevention is extremely important for snack and bakery facilities; any and all pests that get into product then make that product unusable, and can cost thousands in product recalls.
Opportunities to improve snack and bakery facility food safety continually arise, whether related to sanitation and washing systems, packaging reliability, keeping an eye on best practices for managing carcinogens, or analyzing new technology that can help provide a safer work environment.
Puffed and extruded snacks, a subset of the salty snacks category, continue to rise in popularity as snack producers continually bring ingredient and product format innovations to the table.
Last week, I was fortunate to spend three days in the Austin, Texas area, learning about Texas pecans and how they make their way from farm to fork, essentially.
Today, Barry Callebaut hosted a livestream to have journalists taste its new Bensdorp Natural Dark cocoa powder (in brownie/muffin form), which will officially debut at IBIE in Las Vegas next month.
Stäubli's robotics division has been around since 1982, but their Novi, MI office—a quick 40-minute drive from BNP Media's headquarters in Troy, MI—opened more recently, in May 2018.