Kevin T. Higgins

Kevin T. Higgins joined Food Engineering in January 2000 as senior editor and has written stories on a wide variety of plant automation and food manufacturing topics. In addition to feature articles, Kevin covers food packaging and writes FE’s Engineering R&D column. Email: higginsk@bnpmedia.com.

Food Defense Systems

Staff vigilance: The first line of food defense

Facing mandates to safeguard against deliberate contamination, food companies walk a fine line between implementing effective defenses and creating an uncomfortable workplace.

Kevin T. Higgins

April 3, 2013

The joke in certain circles is that the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which explicitly cites the need to guard against intentional adulteration, should more accurately be referred to as SCFEA: the Security Consultants Full Employment Act.

Recession? What recession?

At November’s PACK EXPO trade show, food and beverage equipment buyers came, they saw, they purchased.

Kevin T. Higgins

February 7, 2013

If market share numbers are indicative of trade show attendance, 27,000 packaging machinery buyers from food and beverage companies prowled the aisles at the 2012 PACK EXPO event, and they had the kind of checkbook balances that make equipment fabricators’ eyes water.

Kevin T. Higgins

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Staff vigilance: The first line of food defense

Recession? What recession?

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