At any given time, a processor might have these issues simmering (or boiling) on the front and back burners: food safety, employee safety, product development, customer management, marketing and trade show attendance. You’re going to need a bigger stove.
After editing the articles in this edition, I came away impressed and awed by the myriad issues a dairy processing company deals with.
Dairy foods get their fair share of attention from the Food and Drug Administration. So obviously food safety is important. Turn to page 64 for our series of articles on the subject, beginning with “The case for environmental pathogen sampling” by researchers from Cornell University. Then seriously consider attending the Food Safety Summit, which is organized by BNP Media (the publisher of Dairy Foods). See page 74 for information.