Internal Medicine: Open Access
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• Mini Review   
  Safer Foods, Lower Costs, Quicker Response
  Author(s): Richard J. Schonberger*
  
  In this mini-review I offer a few pertinent details from my full research article, “Packaged food industry wake up, your complex costly equipment extends lead times and hides pathogens” [1]. The article, and this review of it, point to serious deficiencies in how manufacturers of packaged foods configure and operate their factories. That sector ranges from the bottling and canning of soft drinks and beer to the forming and wrapping of candy bars to the grinding and packaging of spices. Market demand is generally very high, which seems to beg for a manufacturing model of highspeed production lines. At the same time, the make-up of those high volumes is diverse: high mixes of product flavors, package types and sizes, and customers from bulk wholesales to store-level consumers. In other words, the sector must be able to produce.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2165-8048.21.11.330

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