Food and Beverage Industry Articles

Ensuring Cleanroom Compliance: The Pillar of Safe and High-Performing Manufacturing

In the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, and advanced material production, cleanrooms serve as the backbone of contamination control. However, designing and maintaining a compliant cleanroom is not just about meeting regulatory expectations—it is about ensuring safe, consistent, and high-quality manufacturing processes.

Malema Launches the CIFM-88 Series DuraMassFlow PFA Coriolis Industrial Flow Meter

Malema™, part of PSG and Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a leading provider of flow meter technologies for use in industrial and semiconductor applications, today announced the launch of the new Malema CIFM-88 Series DuraMassFlow™ PFA Coriolis Industrial Flow Meter. The new...

Biomerics Announces Merger with Precision Concepts Medical

Biomerics, the leading vertically integrated contract manufacturer for the interventional medical device market, announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements to merge with Precision Concepts’ medical business (“Precision Concepts Medical”).

Royalite G50: The Green Building Solution with Superior Fire & Fungi Resistance

Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, is pleased to announce that Royalite G50, a non-PVC rigid sheet product, meets stringent ASTM E84 Steiner Tunnel Test in accordance with their flame spread and smoke-developed indexes.

Nestlé Waters Bottling Facility Achieves Alliance for Water Stewardship Gold Certification

Nestlé Waters Bottling Facility Achieves Alliance for Water Stewardship Gold Certification

Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) is pleased to announce that its Stanwood bottling facility in Michigan has received Gold certification under the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) International Water Stewardship Standard, the company’s second facility awarded this certification. Achieving advanced-level certification recognizes the additional effort and positive water stewardship outcomes that go beyond core requirements of the AWS Standard. NWNA remains the only company in North America with Gold-certified facilities.

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ANSI/ANAB Accredits Quality Certification Services

ANSI/ANAB Accredits Quality Certification Services

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, has accredited Florida Certified Organic Growers, Inc. DBA Quality Certification Services in accordance with the international standard ISO/IEC 17065, Conformity assessment—Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes, and services; and pertinent certification scheme requirements and regulations under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)’s Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA. ANSI’s conformity assessment accreditation programs were reorganized in December 2018 under the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) brand, a wholly owned subsidiary of ANSI.

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Ecolab Acquires Bioquell, Expanding Cleanroom Disinfection Offering

Ecolab Acquires Bioquell, Expanding Cleanroom Disinfection Offering

Bioquell offers a unique opportunity to broaden Ecolab’s portfolio of products, services, and solutions. Bioquell’s expertise in bio-decontamination and deep-cleaning utilizing vaporized hydrogen peroxide technologies complements Ecolab’s daily cleaning and disinfection offerings for cleanrooms and other high-grade environments.

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QuantumClean® & ChemTrace® Show How to Reduce Wafer Fab CoO at SEMICON Europa 2018

QuantumClean® & ChemTrace® Show How to Reduce Wafer Fab CoO at SEMICON Europa 2018

QuantumClean & ChemTrace will demonstrate how its ultra-high purity chamber tool part cleaning, proprietary coatings and microcontamination analytical testing can help reduce wafer fabrication Cost-of-Ownership (CoO). Solutions’ information is available during show hours at SEMICON Europa at the Messe München Exhibition Center in Munich, Germany from November 13 — 16, 2018 (booth A4510).

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Cleanroom Farms of the Future

Cleanroom Farms of the Future

This “farm of the future”, built by systems integrator GrowStack working in conjunction with TCE Electrical Ltd., is the latest research initiative to be led by CHAP and Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC), a pioneer in experimental and applied horticulture research since the 1950s.

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Decernis Acquires Food Fraud Database from USP

Decernis Acquires Food Fraud Database from USP

The Food Fraud Database, launched by USP in 2012, helps food manufacturers, retailers, and other stakeholders make informed decisions about the vulnerability of their food ingredients to economically motivated adulteration. This supports compliance with FSMA and GFSI requirements by providing information on the pattern and history of food fraud and the identification of potentially hazardous adulterants.

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Machine Learning Sifts & Searches Complex Scientific Data

Machine Learning Sifts & Searches Complex Scientific Data

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley are developing innovative machine learning tools to pull contextual information from scientific datasets and automatically generate metadata tags for each file. Scientists can then search these files via a web-based search engine for scientific data, called Science Search, that the Berkeley team is building.

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