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The yogurt business is a highly competitive $7 billion industry fueled in part by the dramatic surge in demand for Greek yogurt. Dannon is using predictive analytics and trade planning from IBM to analyze shopper behavior, leading to improved predictions on product volume and profitability.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revamped its online food defense courses to help bolster the food industry’s defense measures against an act of intentional food contamination. The revamped courses, titled “Food Defense 101,” have been updated to address the types of intentional contamination that have occurred in the United States in recent years and the FDA’s most current thinking on how to forestall or minimize the impact of such incidents

Arla Foods Ingredients says that to address the difficulties presented by the high levels of acid whey in traditional Greek yogurt manufacturing, it has developed a protein solution that enables yogurt manufacturers to produce Greek and Greek-style yogurt on their existing plant, "completely eliminating acid whey without compromising quality or taste."

Federal Manufacturing, Milwaukee, a supplier of dairy filling equipment, said Otis Cobb, president and a principal of the company retired on May 31.
Cobb credits the durability and simple design of Federal’s filling machines with the company’s success – machines the dairy industry can depend upon.
“We have machines that are 50 years old that are still running, still being used every day,” Cobb said.