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Rising bacon prices are affecting sales at grocery, but not foodservice — for now.

Although Maple Leaf Foods has always been committed to food safety, the deadly 2008 listeriosis outbreak traced back to some of its products forced the company to adopt more rigorous food-safety processes.

How federal traceability legislation may impact the food supply chain.

As the national and global economy began to unravel in 2008 and 2009, many companies ran for the hills, begged for answers and reinvented or rebooted their entire strategic plan in order to compensate for the fear that littered the headlines.

The National Provisioner surveys sausage processors on a variety of topics linked to sausage R&D and operations.

The AMI 2011 Expo attracted more than 360 exhibitors and 6,000 industry leaders to Chicago in April. Recently separated from the Dairy Expo, the show’s overall attendance numbers disappointed some, but most exhibitors were satisfied with the true quality of the audience.

When we use the term “process control” in food manufacturing, we evoke the idea of sophisticated manufacturing control systems and elaborate statistical graphs of microbiological or other analytical data. This is certainly the mainstream method of operations when detail is critical to the food-safety systems, such as temperature or pH control.

Charlie Arnot focuses this discussion on building trust among stakeholders, customers and consumers.

From its initial announcement 10 months ago, the merger of Pierre Foods, Advance Food Co. and Advance Brands was touted as a perfect fit — a unification of “wonderfully complementary” companies under one corporate umbrella.

Processors continue to find ways to grow the industry in volatile times, through acquisitions, expansions and new products.