Category: Processing
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Summit Foods has recalled four wrap lines over STEC contamination. The FSA alert covers several brands and all use-by dates through 5 September 2026.
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Bernard Matthews will close its Derby poultry plant in December. Around 600 jobs are at risk after consultation failed to identify a viable route for the site to continue operating.
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CMA action will force Vandemoortele to divest its Worcester plant. The remedy is designed to preserve competition in frozen laminated dough while allowing the Délifrance acquisition to stand.
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Hapman refines hygienic conveying systems for fragile food production materials. CablePro combines enclosed stainless-steel tubing, food-grade cable and discs, automatic tensioning, and configurable dry or wet cleaning for complex production layouts.
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IDS cameras automate potato grading across compact farm sorting lines. Farmsort.one combines repeated optical inspection, encoder-based tracking, and electric conveying to classify washed or unwashed potatoes into as many as five grades.
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Michigan has awarded grants supporting food-processing and production infrastructure projects. Funding will support bottling, fermentation, packaging, blast chilling, fish processing, dairy production, bakery capacity, and other tangible manufacturing assets.
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Maharashtra has tightened enforcement across edible-oil manufacturing and packaging operations. The state FDA is targeting adulteration, unsealed sales, reused containers, licensing failures, and unsafe transport across the production and distribution chain.
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Premier’s Tulbagh closure plan threatens South African canning capacity significantly. The proposed shutdown exposes 246 permanent employees, seasonal workers, and hundreds of fruit growers to the loss of a major export-processing outlet.
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Suempol plans a major salmon processing complex in Poland’s west. The Pełczyce development would combine filleting, salting, smoking, freezing, and packing with photovoltaic generation and energy storage.
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US food manufacturers are accelerating reformulation away from synthetic dyes. FDA’s latest tracker shows completed and ongoing changes across cereals, snacks, dairy, confectionery, beverages, bakery, and private-label foods.