MARCO'S BLOG

Ensuring seafood product safety while increasing plant productivity isn’t a zero-sum situation. There are methods you can use to remain compliant with the requirements of the FDA’s Seafood HACCP guidelines while improving product changeovers and performing the necessary sanitation protocols with less downtime.

A common problem we see with food packing processes is product-to-product consistency. Operators and the equipment they use have a major impact on the line’s packing efficiency.

Frozen ready-to-eat meals have become a staple in any well-stocked kitchen. The convenience it offers modern consumers cannot be overemphasized. Consistently rising demand means that some of today’s most recognizable chefs and brands like Marie Callender’s, Stouffer’s, Chef Boyardee and Lean Cuisine offer a variety of frozen ready-to-eat meals.

In food manufacturing environments, yield refers to the amount of product you get from your raw material input. Yield management starts at goods intake and your percentage of output will depend on how accurately you formulate, process, and track the ingredients required in your recipes.

Ready-To-Eat (RTE) meals aren’t new, but the variety of products available is growing rapidly. Consumers are placing greater emphasis on convenience as they grapple with busier lifestyles, but still want to maintain healthy and nutritional diets. Almost every aisle in our supermarkets now stock some form of RTE product, from the deli counters through to the fruit stands and meat sections.

With shrinking margins, increased raw material costs, and laborers abandoning their nine-to-five jobs for roles in the gig economy, food manufacturers have to squeeze every ounce of value from each batch of material they process.

Food producers and processors operate in an industry with some of the tightest profit margins. Increased labor dependency in a mature market creates intense competition where most of these companies only generate 12% net profit a year. The unique challenges that face food processors span across the supply chain, from optimizing crop yields to finding production techniques that provide savings when transporting, processing, packing, and shipping products to consumers.