The dairy industry loses millions of dollars every year from product deterioration caused by spoilage bacteria. Spoilage bacteria result in shorter shelf life and decreased quality for milk products. By identifying the specific types and numbers of microbes involved, we can improve shelf life and quality by reducing bacterial contamination.
The latest in a long line of the world's largest cheese plants is up and running in Clovis, N.M., Leprino Foods is making major upgrades at several of its plants, and Hilmar Cheese is about to break ground at a greenfield site in the Texas panhandle. Cheese is not the only game in town when it comes to construction projects this year, but it seems to be the driver of the most substantial projects.
TYLER, Texas—In the Texas-Louisiana Gulf area, the Goldenbrook Farms brand is well known as the premium private label brand for Brookshire Grocery Co. Recently Brookshire's customers have found a new line of yogurt and sour cream bearing the Goldenbrook brand.
For thousands of years, the ability to work independently and perform repetitious tasks was the exclusive province of human beings, from construction of the pyramids to the Industrial Revolution.
With products in over 600 stores and almost eight million units sold each year, Allison's Gourmet Kitchen, Moore, Okla., has tasted quite a bit of success.
There's a slogan associated with the Tillamook County Creamery Assn. that speaks to its consistency-"One Recipe, 100 years"-but while the recipe has remained constant, the process and equipment at Tillamook's headquarters plant have changed considerably over the years.
Dairy and ice cream products are most vulnerable to tampering or contamination while beyond our control in the retail display cabinet. Remember the Tylenol tampering deaths? Both raw milk and packaged product transportation security is primarily an enhanced, more formal approach and a better-documented extension of the product quality assurance/"cold chain" training and protection you should have been doing all along.
Specing a refrigerated truck body is something no fleet manager takes lightly. It is the most important safeguard during transportation-the largest and weakest link in the cold chain. It also carries a substantial price tag-up to $40,000 per body with refrigeration.
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