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FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal Magazine - May 2015

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FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal Description:

Publisher: Ringier-Trade-Media-Ltd

Category: Food-&-Beverage

Language: English

Frequency: Bi-Monthly

FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal is published 8x a year in English. The magazine provides the food & beverage processing industry in South East Asia with the latest information and technologies on ingredients, processing and packaging, food safety and regulatory issues. It offers practical solutions to improve productivity, reduce cost, and turn innovations into real competitive advantages as well as the latest market information, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles, written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from industry professionals throughout S.E. Asia and from Ringier's family of food industry magazines covering Greater China region, the Middle East and other parts of the world, inclduing International Food & Beverage Ingredients News for China, China Food Manufacturing Journal, Food Manufacturing Journal-Middle East and Modern Food Processing (India). The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s food website in English and Chinese (food.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.

In this issue

Food safety special AS I PUT together the May 2015 issue, I see a number of newsfeeds about product recalls in my inbox, the latest of which reports glass shard in a chicken and potato product. While product recalls may seem like an all-toocommon occurrence, we always hope it never happens to us. Well, this issue brings to you another special on food safety. This time we take a look at how Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and National Environment Agency (NEA) keep the city’s food products – some 90% imported –safe. We interview leading agro-business company, Betagro, which was the first manufacturer in Thailand to adopt e-traceability in its supply chain. We also feature solutions such as Eagle Product Inspection’s x-ray technology for pre-packed food products. Packaged food like mixed nuts, fruit and salads, and ready meals, to name a few, are among the most challenging to inspect since each pack contains multi-textured items, says Eagle’s Jeff Jia. X-ray technology that discriminates by chemical composition and not only by density variation is more accurate in identifying foreign bodies and contaminants in packaged products.