Food Industry Executive

A strong food safety culture is no longer optional. It’s an essential component of an effective food safety management system and, when embedded across an organization, a powerful driver of prevention, operational discipline, and business performance.

A contaminated ingredient can shut down a plant. It can also drag down sales across an entire category, even for companies that had nothing to do with it. Dan Spatz of Oliver Wight Americas argues the response needs to be mapped out before an outbreak hits.

No one can stop a utility rate case. But organized customers can shrink one, and the share they shrink keeps getting smaller. Here are four numbers to find before the next filing.

Boxed beef just posted its second straight weekly decline, as we've been tracking in our Input Cost Index. After months of near-record prices, USDA's...

The 2027 synthetic dye deadline is signed. The natural color supply chain isn't ready. This week we're also covering tariff inflation at 3.3% PCE and a GS1 US survey showing 67% of consumers now avoid entire product categories after a recall.

Ask executives who's stalling their AI rollout and most point to the plant floor. Infor's Jared Helenic finds the opposite. Operators want the help. The quiet resistance is one layer up.

Six in 10 dairy executives now rank talent a top strategic priority. Rockwell's Todd Gilliam argues for automating judgment in, not people out, so a newer operator can run the line like a 30-year veteran.