Driven by a joint vision of a world without labor shortages, the workforce solutions company and leading cobot supplier have partnered up to provide North American manufacturers with fast, flexible automation.

2022 forced the food industry to support food safety laboratories in ways that helped them manufacture and distribute safe products through streamlined processes and innovative technology.

The pandemic has impacted 3PL, labor, and safety in cold storage.

Talk to professionals in almost any line of work these days, and they inevitably will mention the challenges they’re facing attracting and retaining workers. Meat processors are no exception.

Author Dan Emery, a third-party administrator consulting on staffing, safety, and compliance, says its a challenging time to staff a company right now.

When discussing the past couple of years in the meat industry, Cloverdale Foods’ fourth-generation CEO Scott Russell describes a waterfall, where you’re constantly getting hit from one stream of water or another.

I am of the hope that, sooner rather than later, we can stop proclaiming each year “crazy” or “unusual” or some other superlative. What I wouldn’t give for a normal, easy, and successful year in food safety, where challenges weren’t so mountainous and issues weren’t new. 

With meat prices continuing to surge across North America, coupled with worker shortages on meat and poultry processing lines, Fortress Technology will reveal its automated labor-saving testing and quality control solution at IPPE 2022.

Every year at this time, I pore over the CDC reports on foodborne outbreaks, FDA and FSIS recalls, death certificates from the CDC database, and more, looking for trends to see where we have been over the last 12 months and try to get a glimmer of where we are headed.