Lipid Nutrition, a global leader in lipid-based health ingredients, has hired Candace Reed to its customer service team.

McGill University Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean Dr. Chandra Madramootoo is pleased to announce the Montreal-based school will be organizing a second Conference on Global Food Security on Oct. 5-7, 2009.

Two BAX System assays from DuPont Qualicon have received certification from the AOAC Research Institute as next-day methods for detecting Listeria in food and environmental samples.

SIG Combibloc is now certified in accordance with the criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for a complete chain of custody verification (CoC) at all its European production sites.

Today’s business environment demands performance measurements not only to long-term financial investment goals but also against day-to-day, shift-to-shift and hour-by-hour production targets.

Autocrat Inc., a fourth-generation family-owned business in Rhode Island that roasts coffee and manufactures coffee extracts, promotes from within and hires two new sales people to promote future growth of both coffee extracts and coffee on demand servicing the food ingredient and foodservice industries.

Wayne, Pa.-based Deacom Inc., producer of the Deacom Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System for food, beverage, and process manufacturers, has been named a 2009 Great Supply Chain Partner by SupplyChainBrain magazine.

GEA Process Engineering has received an order in excess of  EUR 17 million  from Feihe  Dairy, one of  the  fast  growing  dairy companies in China.

Tampa, Fla.-based Mettler-Toledo Safeline has announced the grand opening of four new regional product inspection equipment demonstration centers.

At the 2009 Dairy Symposium, sponsored by the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association on July 12 and 13 in Galena, Ill., the 2010 WDPA officers were elected.