This device will allow them to work together to track and receive critical pulp temperature, humidity and door security alerts on truck loads of food products moving on our nations highways.

The lab specializes in providing reliable food process evaluation.

In this sidebar to our April cover story, Karl Schledwitz, chairman and CEO of Monogram Foods, tells Andy Hanacek about the food safety accomplishments of the company in the past year.

Technology has come a long way and we see improved food safety as a result. More food companies are beefing up their food-safety programs, so instead of responding to contaminations, they are better prepared to prevent such incidents from occurring.

The presence of Salmonella in beef products and development of methods to prevent that presence have been focal points for all sectors of the beef industry in recent years.

One of the biggest challenges in food safety in today’s beef processing industry is the reduction of E. coli contamination in ground beef.

Someone who has never been through a recall doesn’t truly understand how costly even a small mistake can be. According to a New Jersey PIRG study, food recalls and foodborne illnesses cost approximately $77 billion each year in the United States alone.

Entropy has always been taught as a measure of the disorder in a system containing energy or information. In this definition the less ordered any system is, the greater is its entropy or disorganization.