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2013 January

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While many processors specialize, HP Hood does it all

While many processors specialize, HP Hood does it all: milk, ice cream, cheese, yogurt, other cultured foods and nondairy beverages.
James Carper
January 15, 2013
Hood is New England’s beloved dairy brand with roots that reach back to 1846 when Harvey Perley Hood founded the company in Derry, N.H. Today, HP Hood LLC, based in Lynnfield, Mass., near Boston, processes branded lines of milk, ice cream, cheese and other dairy products that rank among the best-sellers in the Northeast.
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A look inside HP Hood's Sacramento plant

HP Hood fills 600 bottles a minute on its new aseptic line in its Sacramento, Calif., plant. The company processes dairy and nondairy beverages in aseptic and extended shelf life packages.
James Carper
January 18, 2013

Mike Hardy is showing me an aseptic filler. “There are only two speeds to this — 0 and 600 bottles a minute,” he says. I watch a blur of bottles enter one end of the machine from an overhead conveyor, whirl from carousel to carousel and exit the other end. In a matter of seconds, the bottles have been sterilized, filled and capped.


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Origin Food Group makes früsh yogurt and fruit shakes

January 15, 2013
Origin Food Group LLC, based in Statesville, N.C., is the maker of früsh yogurt & fruit shakes. The yogurt shakes come in strawberry, blueberry, peach and strawberry-banana flavors. Früsh is said to contain 51% more calcium than most drinkable yogurts, includes probiotics and 9 grams of protein per serving. It’s available in 8.4-ounce bottles for a suggested retail price of $1.99. It’s also sold in 32-ounce bottles.
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Cooking with butter

New Land O'Lakes flavored butter product helps home cooks step it up a notch

Seasoned butter and olive oil are used to flavor chicken, fish and pork. The flavors are Garlic & Herb, Italian Herb, Savory Butter & Olive Oil and Lemon Pepper.
October 11, 2012

Dairy cooperative Land O'Lakes has developed a new butter-based cooking ingredient used to flavor chicken, fish and pork. The flavors are Garlic & Herb, Italian Herb, Savory Butter & Olive Oil and Lemon Pepper.


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Sales of ice cream are frozen in place

Dollar sales of ice cream went up slightly but unit sales barely moved up. Unit sales of frozen novelties dropped.
Sarah M. Kennedy
January 17, 2013
Perhaps the unprecedented warmer fall weather in much of the United States was to blame for the melting of unit sales for frozen novelties and ice cream. Whatever the cause, only a few ice cream brands saw increases at the end of 2012.
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Making the case for fiber in dairy foods

Americans do not consume enough fiber. Are added fibers in dairy foods an acceptable way to help consumers meet dietary fiber recommendations?
Karen Giles-Smith MS, RD
January 19, 2013
All fibers fit — including isolated and synthesized/modified fibers. That’s the conclusion of the Institute of Medicine, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the World Health Organization/Food and Agricultural Organization of the United States (CODEX).
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Processors

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Dairy industry news briefs: January 2013

January 18, 2013

The Dairy Queen system, Minneapolis, named Prairie Farms Dairy Supply, St. Louis, its Distributor of the Year. Dairy Queen cited Prairie Farms’ “superior performance of on-time delivery, and warehouse and pricing accuracy.”


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Dairy industry hiring trends in 2013: there will be jobs

The competition for jobs is fierce. Here’s why you couldn’t seal the deal last year on that ‘Holy Grail’ candidate.
Jill Osterhout
January 16, 2013
The dairy manufacturing industry is expanding. That’s a fact. Yes, there are companies struggling, but by and large, many of your dairy company competitors are experiencing growth.
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Ingredients

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Texturants: Dairy’s ace in the hole

In creating healthy foods, formulators often reduce fat and sugar, the very ingredients responsible for the attributes creamy, smooth and soft that consumers expect in dairy foods. What’s the solution? Texturants.
Kimberly Decker
January 20, 2013
In September 2011, a study appeared in the journal Appetite reporting that texture, not flavor, best predicted the level of satiation that subjects expected from certain dairy products. In three separate experiments, the researchers wrote, product samples with the thicker texture — whether yogurt, custard or chocolate milk — rated higher for expected satiation than thinner ones.
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Operations

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Tetra Pak launches Tebel Casomatic SC 7 for cheese

April 29, 2009
Tetra Pak has launched a new version of Tetra Tebel Casomatic that enables cheese producers to achieve superior and more consistent product quality without compromising food safety, while reducing operating costs and minimizing their environmental impact.
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SPX Flow Technology PMO mix-proof valve

August 17, 2012
SPX’s newest generation W75CP2, PMO mix-proof valve is an extension of the W75CP double-seat PMO mix-proof valve which is used in dairies throughout North America for continuous processing.
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Osgood Industries introduces new UltraClean Plus

January 19, 2013
Osgood Industries introduced new UltraClean Plus. UltraClean Fillers integrate a hygienic low-profile base and state-of-the-art Vaprox H202 and UV technology, making it possible to extend the shelf life of refrigerated food products.
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Use benchmarks to improve food safety

Establish a dairy product benchmarking system to provide easy-to-understand data that compares key food safety indicators against target food safety goals.
Allen Sayler
Allen Sayler
January 17, 2013
Everyone in dairy companies, including corporate management, has increased their focus on food safety over the past two years.
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Inspection gadgets: a Q&A with experts in detection systems

X-ray and metal detection play an important role in food safety and checkweighers are key to package weight consistency. In this article, leading suppliers share their expertise and talk about what’s new in detection systems.
Sarah M. Kennedy
January 16, 2013
Finding a foreign object in dairy foods is every plant manager’s nightmare. Detecting these objects quickly and efficiently is key. That’s where X-ray and metal detection systems come into play. Checkweighers guard against short counts in packages or underweight volumes. Dairy Foods invited leading suppliers of detection systems to talk about what’s new. Here’s what they had to say.
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Now is the time to promote a new protein measurement method

There is a new method for measuring protein quality. It is more scientifically valid because it more accurately reflects the ability of the body to utilize essential amino acids.
Sharon Gerdes Health and Wellness editor of Dairy Foods
Sharon Gerdes
January 18, 2013
For nearly 20 years, the world had accepted the PDCAAS (Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score) as the gold standard for measuring protein quality. The dairy industry has long argued that this method has flaws and limitations.
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Can we get what we need from sustainable packaging?

Mick Jagger told us in song that we can’t always get what we want. But milk jugs and milk crates give us what want and need from a sustainability point of view.
Clay Detlefsen
January 17, 2013
Consumers want sustainable food packaging. Food manufacturers want to use sustainable packaging. Many packaging suppliers are striving to meet marketplace demands. But we live in an imperfect world and we can’t always get what we want. That said improvements are being made and have been made over the years.
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Dairy Fleet Smart program saves fuel

Jim Mulvenna
January 15, 2013
Sustainability is not solely focused on environmental impact but also includes economic and social impact — the triple bottom line that creates healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet. If a solution is good for the environment but not economically feasible, it is not sustainable from a business standpoint.
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Suppliers

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Supplier news

Palsgaard to open plant in Malaysia in 2013

The facility will produce distilled monoglycerides (DMG), sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate (SSL), propylene glycerol esters of fatty acids (PGMS), mono- and di-glycerides (MDG).
December 8, 2012

Palsgaard says it is on track to open a new factory in Malaysia by mid-2013 to produce emulsifiers and integrated blends for dairy, ice cream, margarine as well as in soya beverages. 


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