Maintaining sanitary conditions is at the top of the priority list in the food processing industry.

For National Food Safety Month (NFSM), ServSafe’s goal is to help everyone—from frontline food handlers to executives—focus on the skills and knowledge that create a culture of food safety.

A look at the best air management practices for snack and bakery companies.

Spiroflow will now be offering the full range of Cablevey tubular drag conveyors in its product portfolio.

Companies should make a plan to ensure cleanliness, standard operating procedures of facilities.

Snack, bakery industry personnel are constantly learning.

Validated 3rd party study confirms an average 5.40 log reduction of pathogens in wheat temper with the Guardian System.

The May 8–11 event connects snack and bakery professionals with safety solutions.

The producer’s frozen pizza brands utilize the supplier’s Smart Sort technology in production.

Taking place in Rosemont, IL, the event will also stream select sessions online.

Speakers from J&J Snack Foods, Cargill, and the FDA outlined root cause analysis.

The 2023 event drew 2,700 food professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

The food safety specialist has added the 20-year food industry veteran to its staff.

The American Bakers Association program salutes safety practices and awareness.

The 2024 event programming aims at maintaining safety in processing environments 

The Peanut and Tree Nut Processors Association event features targeted education.

Efficient weight controls and checkweighing systems on bakery production lines are integral to meeting consumer expectations and ensuring compliance with net weight regulations.

Tastykake has released its limited time Easter offerings for 2022.

Tastykake has recently debuted its limited-time USO products, available in stores through mid-September.

Tastykake is sweetening the season, as it has released its limited-time summer products, available on shelves now until July 30.

Tastykake will bring back its themed on-the-go packaging for football season.

Products now available until December 17.

The Chocolate Caramel and Triple Chocolate cakes draw inspiration from candy bar flavors and textures.

The sweet baked goods brand has renamed its Minis line with a new name and packaging.

The items join the McKee Foods brand’s lineup of fall seasonal bakery treats.

The Mondelēz International brand has announced the trio of treats ahead of the new year.

The items feature golden cake filled with creme and covered in dark fudge icing.

The latest Hostess cake creation will be available in two Hostess fan-favorite flavors: Double Chocolate and Chocolate Creamy Caramel.

Consumers are still looking for indulgences, despite the fact that many products now have health halos. However, in our current era of “little treat culture,” the bakery snacks category—aka smaller servings of snack cakes and pies—continue to be popular.

The bakery brand and Instagram influencer collaborated on the secret flavor.

Equipment Briefs from various Suppliers. Check it out!

Consumer demand for artisanal baked goods and better-for-you snacks are making new laminators and sheeters must-have equipment for many manufacturers.

Processing Technologies International will invest $10 million in its Illinois headquarters in response to growing demand for its sheet extrusion equipment.

Growing consumer demand for better-for-you, gluten-free and innovative baked goods and snacks continues to drive bakers and snack manufacturers to explore new ingredients and formulations. It’s also prompting them to re-examine their equipment needs, as they discover that their existing machinery may not be able to efficiently handle today’s in-demand products. For some manufacturers, a new extruder may be just the ticket.

Handtmann has announced the appointment of Christian Strohm and Sean Gorman to bakery sales specialist positions in Canada and the U.S.

The collective puffed, popped, pellet and extruded snack segment continues to see positive sales activity and a strong level of product innovation.

Snack manufacturers are looking to build in healthfulness through the use of raw materials, including vegetables and fruit, as well as cleaner ingredient profiles with more protein and fiber.

SNAXPO18, taking place March 12-14 in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center, is a must-attend event for anyone working in today’s snack food industry.

Hygienic design, quicker changeovers, reduction of maintenance time, improved cooling ability and the modularity and flexibility to run more-diverse products-sometimes with exotic raw materials that need gentler processing-are the top-of-mind issues for customers of extrusion equipment.

The new high-performance co-extruder from GEA is designed to simultaneously deposit two different types of dough, plus a third, fluid filling.

The soft-dough and cookies sector of the biscuit market comprises a wide-ranging family of products.

Customers of machines that handle puffing and extruding of snack and bakery products are focused on accommodating protein- and plant-based inclusions, hygienic design and rapid cleaning, speed and quick changeovers, better integrated controls, easy data extraction, and smaller machines that can produce specialized batches.

Flexibility, greater sanitation, gentle handling of ingredients, quicker changeovers, more precise weight control, and the ability to make products with healthier ingredients are top of mind features and benefits for snack and bakery customers of extrusion equipment and technology.

Baker Perkins has exploited innovative technology to improve process control, performance and hygiene on all the units in its Co-Ex Master co-extrusion systems, which create high-value products by adding a center filling into a cereal outer.

Snack and bakery companies looking at new or improve extrusion equipment to create puffed and popped snacks, bakery items like nutrition bars, and other types of SKUs have features and benefits like cleanability, flexibility, and remote support high on their list of considerations, according to companies that make extrusion equipment.

There is a lot of confusion in cookie and cracker manufacturing today. Let’s focus on one of the major areas of confusion: leavening.

Biospringer North America Corporation has announced an expansion on its yeast extract site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to support the growing market trend for natural origin ingredients derived from fermentation.  

One of the concepts often overlooked in the baking industry is that baking is really fundamental chemistry in action.

Leavening is a fundamental ingredient category in baking that performs some serious heavy lifting. Leavening agents help create the textural quality in many baked goods.

Leavening ingredients and leavening aides are important ingredients that help consistently create the textural qualities of various baked goods. And like every ingredient segment within bakery, leavening agents are subject to ongoing shopper trends.