Aug 13 | CHEM Blog
To be blunt, many rural areas in the U.S. offer the ultimate incentive for businesses these days — a low cost of living and a large available labor pool.
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Aug 12 | CHEM Blog
Fierce competition seems to be a tempting reason to ignore certain safety standards and procedures, but when you-know-what hits the fan, consumers become the victims.
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Aug 10 | CHEM Blog
The pace of biotechnology innovation associated with bioenergy is set to usher in a period of food abundance so intense that there will be far more food available than the world needs.
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Aug 9 | CHEM Blog
In order to mitigate the potentially heavy regulatory changes coming down the pike, food manufacturers and chemical producers need to be the ones to uncover and disclose the effects of their products on public health.
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Aug 6 | CHEM Blog
If the FDA wants to provide food oversight, it needs to do its own testing on chemicals before they are put into food and packaging — whether the manufacturers okay it or not.
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Aug 6 | CHEM Blog
If OSHA says you are in violation of safety codes, you should pay for it. You shouldn’t be able to hire an attorney to argue that you should be responsible for only some of the violations.
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Aug 3 | CHEM Blog
The FDA told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee they believed overuse of antibiotics in food-producing animals is leading to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could threaten human health.
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Jul 29 | CHEM Blog
These days, manufacturers have their heads in the cloud because cloud computing promises to drastically improve the ability of companies to drive manufacturing efficiencies.
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Jul 27 | CHEM Blog
It seems likely that those opposing technology’s role in agricultural production will continue to advance their efforts to restrict its use in other areas of the food chain.
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Jul 27 | CHEM Blog
Veteran workers and managers can represent a challenge — when workers get comfortable with the way things are run, they meet any change with vehement opposition.
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