Food Packaging | Meat packaging aims to please | Food Processing

By Kate Bertrand Connolly, Packaging Editor FoodProcessing.com Keywords: packaging, "meat packaging" and "poultry packaging" New packaging techniques for meat and poultry take consumer desires — and fears — seriously. Page 1 of 3 >> Time-pressed consumers, smaller households, the national obsession with health and wellness and food safety concerns are encouraging new product formats and packaging styles for meat and poultry. The conventional film-wrapped foam tray remains one of many options — but gaining ground quickly are individually wrapped portions, tear-apart flexible packs that let the consumer cook a little or a lot, tray/pouch combinations and stand-up pouches. Further, fresh meat is far from the only game in town. Fully cooked products are a staple in a growing number of homes as families look for something easy to prepare. And the packaging must reinvent itself just as quickly as the products. ADVERTISEMENT Resealable (and reusable) plastic containers for lunch meat are proliferating (top). Within the container and before opening, the deli meat is packaged in a Cryovac package (bottom). To provide parents with a quick and snack-like product that is not only convenient but also healthy and tasty, Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ( www.pilgrimspride.com ), Pittsburg, Texas, has extended its EatWellStayHealthy line of chicken products to include EatWellStayHealthy Kids frozen products.
Category: Fresh Packaging For Food

MNSHARP worksite: Reynolds Food Packaging

The Reynolds Food Packaging safety and health committee celebrates its company's achievement as a MNSHARP site at its Rogers, Minn. location. Reynolds Food Packaging, a business of Alcoa Packaging and Consumer Products, thermoforms a complete line of packaging containers for use in the supermarket, foodservice, agriculture, prepared foods and food processor The company's MNSHARP status exempts the worksite from Minnesota's OSHA scheduled compliance inspection lists for one year.
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Food Production Daily Food Processing & Packaging Materials (food equipment, processing machinery, packaging materials for food processors)

New techniques added to acrylamide reduction handbook 05-Dec-2007 - The food and drink industry has added more techniques to its handbook advising processors on how to reduce acrylamide formation, a bid to help smaller companies voluntarily reduce the potential carcinogen in their products. Software offers visual pipe maintenance testing 04-Dec-2007 - Software designed to analyse piping for the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries has been upgraded to make it easier for processors to visually test flows through their systems. Pork trimmer automates manual task 03-Dec-2007 - A pork trimmer automates a task usually done manually by skilled workers. Industry calls for new UN climate change agreement 03-Dec-2007 - Major food and drink companies such as Nestle are part of an industry group calling on the world's leaders to forge a binding UN agreement to tackle climate change. Claiming your share of R&D tax incentives 03-Dec-2007 - KPMG's David O'Keeffe, Dharmini Dharmabalan, and Naro Roxane Markarian describe how companies can access some of the R&D tax incentives they may be missing out on. Wild plays its ACE with new fruit, veg for vitamin drinks 30-Nov-2007 - Wild is extending offering of fruit and vegetable juice compounds by using new kinds of produce, like pumpkins and bell peppers, in a bid to halt shrinking sales in the orange-carrot drinks category in Germany. First Milk mulls cheese and whey plan 29-Nov-2007 - First Milk, a leading UK dairy cooperative, announced that the company is considering developing its production facilities for higher value dairy goods. Brewer uses solar power to cut oil use 29-Nov-2007 - A brewer in Germany is in the process of installing solar panels that could cut its oil consumption by 60 per cent. Fonterra tracks carbon footprint across supply chain 29-Nov-2007 - Fonterra, one of the world's largest dairy companies, has become the latest processor to announce it would measure carbon emissions across its entire supply chain. Modular cart designed for returnable distribution 27-Nov-2007 - A modular plastic rolling cart is designed as a returnable distribution container for the food processing, food service and beverage industries, among others.
Category: Food Heat Packaging Released

Cryovac® Food Packaging Equipment - Total Systems Approach - North America

Total Systems Means Total Solutions Our Total Systems Approach is a unique service we provide to the food packaging industry. It begins with a complete efficient packaging line designed to fit your needs. We have pioneered equipment systems development for greater production efficiencies including the Cryovac ® rotary chamber vacuum machine, the Onpack ™ vertical-form-fill-seal system and a host of automated loading systems. And we continue to offer new and innovative equipment for a multitude of applications. Our equipment specialists can help design your packaging room and offer expertise for continued support of your system, enabling us to partner with you from start to finish. While others may offer partial answers to your packaging needs, we deliver complete systems and solutions.
Category: Food Packaging Equipment