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Minnesota-based dairy processor Kemps is selling flavored milk in unique cow-themed plastic bottles. The 76-ounce containers are made by the supplier and shipped to Kemps' milk plants. 

The Kroger Co. is installing an automated crate storage and picking system in a new dairy facility in Denver. The initial system will be operational in the second quarter of 2014, according to RMT Robotics, Grimsby, Ontario, the supplier of the system.

The International Dairy Foods Association and Chestnut Labs will offer a hands-on laboratory training program designed specifically for all dairy industry personnel with food safety responsibilities.

A new end-of-line piece of equipment developed by Delkor Systems shaves off as much as 30% of the time required for cultured dairy products to cool between packaging and shipping

Piber Group consists of nine companies, including Stamplast and Piberplast (injection molding), Alipack (packaging machines for food and beverage) and Lampografica (offset printing of paper and PP labels for in-mold labeling and glue applications). 

FDA today issued Federal Register notices to extend the comment periods on the proposed rules for Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption 60 days until November 15, 2013. This is the second and final extension of the comment period for these two rules. The extension of the comment period also applies to the information collection provisions associated with the proposed rules.