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Favorite New Food Products of 2008
Our annual unscientific picks for the best new products of the past year.

Playing Both Sides of Contract Manufacturing
Partnering with others to make your product -- or theirs -- offers benefits to both partners.

Food Company Executives Remain Optimistic
Substantial consumer price increases may remedy increasing costs.

Promise Takes A Shot At Blood Pressure
Unilever takes the Promise brand further down the heart-health road with SuperShots for Blood Pressure.

Clos du Bois Automates A Centuries-Old Process; Improves Efficiency
Clos du Bois winery improves bottling efficiency 20 percent with 21st century information systems.

Rollout: New Food Products for November 2008
New food products guaranteed to whet the appetite.

The Evolving Whole Grain
As grain processing and consumer tastes progress, processors answer with new products.

Food Formulation No Longer Kid Stuff
The old Victorian aphorism, “Children should be seen and not heard,” once was the guiding principle of food formulation. No longer.

Ingredient Round Up: Starches
November's ingredient round-up focuses on healthy and cold-water swelling starches.

Hand to Hand Combat: The Hygiene Equation
Recent food scares remind processors: Pay attention to the basics of personnel hygiene.

Natural Products Show, Like the Category, Shows Growth
Somewhere amidst the hemp milk, the chia sprouts and various suppliers’ claims on the next superfruit, it hits you: This show is very busy, and it’s growing.

Mars Installs New Leader, an Insider, at Wrigley
Company names longtime Wrigley insider Dushan (Duke) Petrovich president.

An Early Farewell to 2008
I’m putting this dismal year behind me and planning for a busy and prosperous 2009.

FoodProcessing.com’s New Look
Take a tour of our newly redesigned website.

MRO Q&A: How to Properly Dispose of Oil
We’ve assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues.

10 Tips On How Food Processors Can Survive The Credit Crunch
An accounting firm offer tips to navigate, perhaps even capitalize on the current financial crisis.

Equipment Round Up: Weighing Equipment

Tyson Goes on Shopping Spree in Brazil, China

One Year of LEED: Kettle Turns Green to Gold