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COVID-19
The Great Global Reset
As consumers shift consumption habits amidst the pandemic, many manufacturers in ProFood World’s Global 250 Food and Beverage Manufacturers list take this moment as a window of opportunity to boost growth of their iconic legacy brands and retail channel.
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Processors Enhance Safety Protocols to Keep Workers Safe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Meatpackers Accelerate Automation after Virus, but Lag Behind Overseas Counterparts
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Keeping Food Processing Safe During COVID-19
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Artificial Intelligence Advances Food Safety
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Workers Wanted? Contact the Robot Employment Agency
Start-up MusashiAI introduces intelligent autonomous robots for quality inspection and forklift driving—allowing the redistribution of human labor to more value-added jobs.
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Stumped about Sustainability during COVID-19?
This two-part series of UnPACKed with PMMI podcasts provides a look at the overarching effect of a global pandemic on packaging sustainability.
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The Pandemic is Shaping the Future Supply Chain
Some of the greatest innovations happen during times of disruption.
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Cisco Aids Dairy Farmers of America’s Digital Transformation
To optimize operations and workforce continuity in support of the nation's food supply during the pandemic and beyond, Cisco and system integration firms are installing communication technologies to accelerate the advance of milk product production.
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FDA and OSHA Publish Checklist to Assist Food Industry During COVID-19
Human and animal food operations should use the checklist when assessing operations when re-starting operations after a shut down or when reassessing operations because of changes due to COVID-19.
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OSHA, North American Meat Institute Form Alliance to Keep Workers Safe
During the two-year alliance, participants will develop information on recognizing coronavirus transmission risks and the best practices for preventing its transmission.
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Recalculating for a Better New Normal by Year End
While PPE supplies seem to be under control, current pandemic-related challenges include the ongoing labor crunch, greater demand to produce goods for grocery stores, difficulty in forecasting future production needs—and, now, a can shortage.
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Industrial Air Purification System for Pathogen Disinfection
Ship & Shore Environmental's Korozon System is innovated to bring peace of mind back to the public amidst the rise of COVID-19 cases.
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Pandemic Causes Shift to New Plant Tools
From pandemic preparedness certification to augmented reality tools, food and beverage manufacturers are embracing new tools. Plus see how Nestlé uses smart glasses to work on complex projects at its facilities during the coronavirus crisis.
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Can Shortages Hit Food and Beverage Industries
Supply chain issues with aluminum, steel, and tin cans are ramping up as COVID-19 changes buying patterns, resulting in a trickle-down effect on product offerings and time-to-market.
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COVID-19 Response Boosts Employee Engagement
Bill Schreiber, CEO of Batavia, NY-based O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative, Inc., talks about how his firm’s response to COVID-19 has led to greater employee engagement.
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Nestlé Accelerates Use of Augmented Reality Amidst COVID-19
AR provides the remote assistance Nestlé needs to install new production lines, upgrade existing lines, and carry out maintenance safely and efficiently during the pandemic.
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Coke Plans to Dump More “Zombie” Brands
In an effort to cut costs, Coca-Cola is cutting underperforming brands, products, flavors and packaging that are not delivering on returns.
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Remote Technologies From Honeywell Enable Continued Operations
Encouraged by the COVID-19 pandemic to push remote capabilities out to a wider swath of industries, Honeywell Process Solutions has released products and services geared toward remote operations, safety, commissioning, lifecycle services, and more.
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CDC Update: COVID-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing
Latest CDC research reports 91 COVID-19 related deaths and more than 17,000 cases across U.S. meat and poultry facilities.
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Healthcare Counterfeiters Flourish During COVID-19
Healthcare Packaging's Keren Sookne makes her unPACKed with PMMI debut with PPE shortages, the potential for a vaccine and fake COVID-19 tests dominating the mainstream news.
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Reports Say Tyson, Other Processors to Replace Meat Cutters with Robots
The ongoing food and beverage manufacturing industry labor crisis combined with the pandemic is behind the need for more automation, including robotics.
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New CDC Interim Guidance for Meat and Poultry Workers
Plants should modify processing lines so that workers are at least six feet apart in all directions and do not face each other. A qualified workplace coordinator should be identified who will be responsible for COVID-19 assessment and control planning.
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Flowers Foods Temporarily Closes Bakery Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Producer of Nature's Own, Wonder, Tastykake, Dave’s Killer Bread, and other bakery foods shuts down production at facility because of increase in the number of cases at the site.
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Recycling Takes Another Hit During Pandemic, Part II
The Coronavirus pandemic is creating a growing waste crisis even as we see images of the earth’s environment clearing from less pollution. A few months into the crisis, and the numbers are staggering.
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Virtual FAT Guidelines from OpX
The OpX Leadership Network releases best practices and leadership guidelines for executing virtual factory acceptance tests (vFATs), to address the changing operational landscape brought on by COVID-19.
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Global Meat Industry Hammered by COVID-19
Meat processing and packaging plants continue to be world-wide coronavirus hot spots.
