All manufacturing facilities should be kept clean at all times for best operation. Food and beverage plants must go further. Cleanliness is not just nice to have. It can literally be a matter of life and death for both customer and company.
Consumer desires and supply chain requirements drive meat and poultry package development.
Consumers expect a lot from meat and poultry packaging. Their wish list includes a diverse set of attributes, including sustainability, convenience, freshness indicators and on-label nutritional data.
Packagers strive to make food healthier—and let
people know
The food industry is
taking consumers’ desires for healthier food to heart, working hard
on new formulations and trying to find the best way to communicate their
benefits.
The meat industry is facing widespread challenges. People are being
advised to eat less of it for health reasons. Plus safety questions
about antibiotics, hormones, e-coli and now cloning have consumers a
bit on edge.
Last month we discussed the problems that U.S. companies faced during
2007 with respect to products imported from China that posed serious
health and safety concerns and subsequently had to be recalled.
