The more plant personnel who participate in your facility’s food safety audit, the better. These educational experiences allow your staff to engage with the audit process and improve their food safety knowledge.

The air around your product should be maintained just like all equipment and product itself. The air intake system should be part of your sanitary design program, evaluating the design to ensure inspection and cleaning hatches are installed at various points for proper maintenance.

If your food safety plan has identified critical control points and/or preventive controls per your hazard analysis, the FDA'’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires you to have a documented recall program.

There is never a "good" time to initiate a recall. But the worst time is when you are forced to remove unsafe food from commerce and haven’t effectively planned for it.

It’s time for seasoned greetings at Dunkin’ Donuts!

Summer is about enjoying a little sweetness and finding time to stop and savor the season with tastes and treats that make for moments of fun and happiness.

Dunkin’ is rereleasing its pumpkin bakery line-up of treats plus its Maple Sugar Bacon Breakfast sandwich, and a twist on its Snackin' Bacon.

Bakery snacks saw a relatively flat year per IRI, Chicago, with 0.16 percent growth to $3.4 billion. Grupo Bimbo far outperformed the category average, though, with growth of 14.48 percent to $249.4 million.

Chocolate Academy, Cacao Barry, and Callebaut have announced the latest additions to the Ambassador team.

The Barry Callebaut Group officially inaugurated its Chocolate Academy Center in Casablanca, Morocco.

The innovative woman-owned snack manufacturer has launched its best-selling Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt Crisps in all 73 Southeast Area Costco Wholesale locations.

Limited Edition Key Lime Pie Granola & Yogurt Parfait Bars and Salted Caramel Mini Greek Yogurt Bars available at Walmart stores nationwide, and are also available direct-to-consumers.

Upcycled fruit snack brand announces new sweet and salty combination.

The Ontario factory will produce sugar-free, high protein, and other specialty chocolate products.

The Desserts By Us cookie brand has its roots in the founder’s favorite childhood desserts.

Snack and bakery producers innovate in ways that fulfill consumers’ interest in healthy indulgence.

Fortress Technology’s smart data capture solution combats the digital disconnect experienced by manufacturers when operating multiple metal detectors, weighing machines, and combination systems simultaneously. 

NSF/GMP-Certified Edible Ink Printer prints graphics onto cookies, white chocolate, macarons, and now doughnuts and taller food items with Platform Kit Accessory.

New platform features seamlessly combine visibility data from all modes, truck appointment scheduling, and warehouse yard management—driving productivity and performance

An interview with KPM Analytics on key performance indicator (KPI) solutions.

Amid product reformulations and continued supply chain disruption, new solution automatically flags impending ingredient shortages, potential safety recalls, and other risks.

Direct store delivery, third-party logistics often popular with snack manufacturers.

How to best handle supply chain shortages.

With remote monitoring solutions, technical help is never far away.

Direct-store delivery can help snack, bakery manufacturers get their products into end-users’ hands faster.

With the theme “SNAX to the MAX,” SNAXPO23 welcomed thousands of attendees to check out the latest supplier innovations, talk technology, taste interesting flavor innovations, and more. 

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery was recently able to correspond with Matt Parry, founder and CEO, Good Crisp Co., about immunity-boosting snacks.

Puffed and extruded snacks have been a staple in pantries for many years. Recently, however, manufacturers have been upping their game, using clean-label ingredients and a variety of different flavors to attract new consumers to the category.

Core Foods' new product line will hit shelves in November 2021, and feature three flavors: Sea Salt & Olive Oil, Vegan Ranch, and Peanut Butter.

The new product joins the company's line of crackers, flatbreads, and other snack items.

LesserEvil has unveiled two new better-for-you products: Space Balls, available in Interstellar Cheddar and Cinnamon Sugar Stardust, and Cosmic Rings, available in Cosmic Cheddar and Berry Blast.

The line of minimally processed snacks features healthy ingredients and savory flavors.

Processing aides are ingredients typically used in small quantities, but they can have a big impact on the functional properties in snack and bakery products. Emulsifiers and enzymes are two examples of such ingredients. 

Breakfast today had begun to align with a quest for simplicity, artisan, nutrition and ?a small slice of indulgence.

Back by popular demand, these new offerings are available now for a limited time.

Consolidated Packaging Group (CPG) has introduced their new flat-bottom, stand-up pouches, which complement their extensive product line

Sun & Swell Foods, a Benefit Corporation and leading clean snack food company, has officially launched compostable packaging, making it one of the first snack companies in the US market to do so.

This July 2021, the creepy, kooky, and mysteriously spooky Addams Family is joining the breakfast table and beyond with "The Addams Family 2"-inspired cereals and snacks and in-pack giveaways of the first animated Addams Family movie.

Green-tech start-up Melodea, Ltd. joins the sustainable packaging scene to take on the plastic waste crisis.

Third-party logistics (3PL) can be useful when snack and bakery companies need to outsource logistics and distribution needs.

Efficient fleet management is vital to the success of any snack and bakery business controlling its own distribution. These days, companies often look for fleets that have newer technology, or that are more energy-efficient, in order to improve their overall bottom line.

Warehouse management software (WMS) and other software and technology solutions for snack and bakery operations.

Applied Manufacturing Technologies has introduced a new product: R-Palletize, a flexible robotic palletizing station.

Every facility needs a food safety plan, and that includes food safety software related to traceability. This software will come in handy whenever a company needs to trace a certain ingredient or product, due to recalls or other reasons.

Now more than ever, in the midst of a global pandemic, it is imperative for companies to have stringent maintenance and sanitation protocols, prioritizing employee safety. Luckily, many companies are upping their game, and even installing new maintenance and employee relief areas.

Warehouse software is important for snack and bakery companies, in order to keep track of the comings and goings of products inside their warehouses.

Traceability is an important facet of warehouses, especially for snack and bakery companies.

Snack food and wholesale bakery companies are building varying levels of automation in their warehouse shipping and receiving areas, ranging from forklifts to autonomous vehicles, to traceability software and more, all in an effort to make their operations more efficient, effective, safer, and more profitable.

Picking robots, automated storage and retrieval, and software that predicts future demand are among a host of technology, equipment and strategic changes that snack food and wholesale bakery companies are undertaking in their warehousing and logistics functions.

After a successful debut of the IHOP “Choco-Pancake” at a local Houston location last summer, the brand is bringing Pancake Tacos to the table nationwide, a first in the family dining space.