Two years ago on a wintry morning, my eldest son, then in fourth grade, woke up early and asked if I would make him pancakes. This was music to my ears so I did not even think twice about using the only box of pancake mix in the house: a sample of a new high-fiber product. Following the box directions, I made about two servings, figuring I would join him for a warm breakfast.
The first baby boomers turned 65 in 2011. As more of the boomer generation reaches retirement age, the number of consumers 65-plus in the United States will burgeon from 40 million in 2010 to 72 million in 2030. Similar statistics can be seen around the world, with the highest percentages of seniors in Japan and Western Europe, and the highest population of seniors in China, whose citizenry swelled to 132 million people age 65-plus in 2011.
A compact plastic case stack de-palletizing system from Westfalia Deam Systemsde-palletizes 3-4 dairy pallets (40 inches x 40 inches) per minute, each with nine stacks of empty plastic dairy cases, for a maximum throughput rate of 180 cases per minute.
Schneider’sstate-of-the-art aseptic brick tray packer offers a high-speed tray packing solution for aseptic brick boxes. The TP-35, designed for the dairy/juice/functional drink industry, is a horizontal tray packer that accumulates bundled bricks into proper pack patterns and loads the bricks from 125 to 250 milliliters in size into tray packs.
Harpak-ULMA’s Rama retail-ready secondary solutions deliver a dairy processor’s products to the shelves using less material than traditional RSC packaging and with unlimited graphic possibilities.
A-B-C’s Model 206 packeris said to reduce a processor’s corrugated use and ensure maximum product protection with display shippers. Model 206 packs cartons or bottles (single or multipacks) into full-height, half-height or end-panel display trays at speeds as great as 30 trays per minute.
DeltaTRAK partnered with food safety expert George Nakamura to present research on rapid bacterial enzyme detection technology at the Food Safety Summit in Washington, D.C.
Romer Labs introduced AgraStrip food allergen lateral flow test kits, a range of immunological rapid tests for the detection of allergens in food, rinse waters
and environmental swabs.
Pall Corp.is using its GeneDisc system to help screen for a deadly strain of E.coli. The technology is being used by Germany’s national reference laboratory to expedite testing of food samples for the toxic strain of E.coli O104:H4.
Stratophase completed its Portable Integrated Battlespace Biological Detection Technology (PIBBDT)project. The portable prototype systems can detect biohazards in an atmospheric environment.
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