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Welcome to FPEACThe Food Processing Environmental Assistance Center is committed to developing and promoting innovative strategies that achieve better environmental results, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewardship throughout the Food Processing Industry. The goal of the Center is to become a primary provider of environmental information, resources, and training to assist small and medium sized food processors in achieving environmental compliance and stewardship. The U.S. food processing sector, as with other industrial and commercial sectors, faces increasingly stringent environmental rules, many of which have their roots in federal statutes and are implemented through state laws and regulations by various agencies. Most of these rules relate to the treatment and disposal of food processing wastes. Often, permitting, monitoring, reporting and other regulatory requirements are implemented by multiple agencies (e.g., composting operations may be regulated by the environmental protection agency, department of health and department of agriculture).
Coca-Cola of course has challenges in the area of health and the environment. Given growing concerns about obesity, the company has come under attack in some markets for the sugar in its drinks. And the sheer scale of the business means that it uses significant amounts of water, energy, petroleum-based plastics and other resources in its production.
NORTHFIELD, ILL. A sustainable packaging reduction goal initiated in 2005 by Kraft Foods Inc. is two years ahead of schedule thanks to more efficient packaging designs and smarter use of packaging ingredients that have allowed the company to eliminate 150 million lbs of material from its supply chain. As part of the effort, Kraft has implemented a redesign of its Oscar Mayer Deli Creations packaging in the United States with 30% less paperboard, a move the company said will keep 1.2 million lbs of packaging out of landfills per year.
TORONTO SunOpta Inc. has begun an environmentally responsible energy recovery project at its Cambridge, Minn., oat fiber facility. As part of the project, SunOpta plans to extract methane from the digestion of waste-water resulting from the oat fiber production process and convert it to pipeline quality natural gas. The resulting energy will then be used to power the Cambridge facility. SunOpta said the project, when completed, significantly will reduce the release of greenhouse gases and various waste materials from the facility as well as provide a return on invested capital of approximately $1 million.
WASHINGTON A recently opened small plant help desk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is designed to provide operators of small and very small meat, poultry and processed egg product establishments with help regarding agency requirements by providing direct access to knowledgeable staff specialists.
Each bakery will discharge between 20,000 and 200,000 gallons of water each day and pay between $200,000 and $500,000 a year. The cost of discharging water includes fresh water, ingredients, sewer use charges and surcharges. If the bakery is required to treat their discharge water, that would add a capital expenditure of as much as $1 million and annual operation costs of about $50,000 a year.
WASHINGTON After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) announced a final rule on Dec. 7 stating that greenhouse gases (G.H.G.s) are a threat to the public health and welfare of the American people and that G.H.G. emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat, many in the industry are asking how this could impact their businesses and whats next for the G.H.G. campaign.
WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) expects to make a final determination regarding whether to increase the allowable ethanol content in fuel in mid-2010.
Indictment: Troubled poultry company sent untreated water into municipal system. House of Raeford Farms has been charged with repeatedly violating the federal Clean Water Act after authorities accused the company of illegally discharging wastewater from a turkey processing plant.
WASHINGTON More companies are turning their attention to creating renewable products such as adhesives and plastics from the animal byproducts that can't be sold on supermarket shelves, according to an article published in the Nov. 23 USA Today. The article titled "Waste Not, Want Not: Companies Find Uses for Leftover Animal Parts," by Greg Latshaw, highlights efforts by meat processors, including Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms and Maple Leaf Foods. The story highlights the companys efforts to develop new uses and markets for animal parts that are inedible to humans.
CHICAGO Last week, the American Meat Institute unveiled a new web site which was designed to help meat and poultry processing companies develop and implement sustainability programs. A.M.I.s Sustainability Committee, chaired by Paul Rutledge of Johnsonville Sausage, LLC, and Leigh Ann Johnston of Tyson Foods Inc., developed the site.
Northfield, IL Kraft Foods, Inc.s improved distribution network has shaved 50 million miles off its global transportation since 2005, reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, according to the company.
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