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Feature Article
| April 30, 1998

Packing process grows on Teixeira Farms

California produce grower lengthens lettuce shelf life and saves material costs by switching from waxed cases to a bag-in-box configuration.
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The label from the Just Pik?t brand emphasizes the juice is not pasteurized but rather frozen when it?s fresh
Feature Article
| March 31, 1998

Donnybrook over spring brooks (sidebar)

Putting the squeeze on fresh fruit juice
News
| January 31, 1998

Produce packing guides

Concerned over recent statements by Food and Drug Administration officials, 16 produce organizations sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala objecting to a reported plan by FDA to develop commodity-specific guidance to govern the growing, harvesting, and distribution of specific commodities.
News
| October 31, 1997

An easier Caesar

In 1994 Saco Foods of Middleton, WI, launched its Easy Caesar salad kit, consisting of croutons, grated cheese, and salad dressing each individually pouched and combined in a folding carton.
Sanitation measures in the HEPA-filtered packaging room include full garb, mask and boots for the operator, who also passes thro
Feature Article
| September 30, 1997

Nature's Pleasures launches fresh-cut apple slic es

This processor may not be the first to package apple slices in an extended shelf-life MAP format. But management believes its technology gives it an edge over those who pioneered the concept.
Feature Article
| September 30, 1997

FDA guidance for closures opens can of worms (sidebar)

Sour grapes on wine labels?
Grimmway1s checkweigher and metal detectors (right) inspect up to 75 bags of carrots per minute. The plant produces bags from 1
Feature Article
| September 30, 1997

Running long and going strong

Metal detectors and checkweighers 'run and run and run' at Grimmway Farms' high-volume, washdown-environment carrot processing plant.
Feature Article
| August 31, 1997

Machinery receives 'heavy' emphasis at Pack Expo West (sidebar)

Learning in Las Vegas
News
| August 31, 1997

Birds Eye tries fresh, not frozen

Birds Eye fresh vegetables?
Early shipments of the product carried a label covering only half the lid, but now a round label covering the whole lid provide
Feature Article
| July 31, 1997

Fruit's best fresh, MAP cup proves

Canadian fruit marketer uses modified atmosphere packaging to get a fresh fruit combo, with an 18-day shelf life, to convenience stores via central distribution channels.

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