Oscar Mayer Changes Hot Dog Ingredients

Following a recent trend in the food and beverage industry, Oscar Mayer says its hot dogs will no longer have preservatives.

May 4th, 2017

Following a recent trend in the food and beverage industry, Oscar Mayer says its hot dogs will no longer have preservatives.

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Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

USDA Provides $32M in Grants to 167 Meat, Poultry Processing Facilities

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said the investment supports local and regional meat and poultry processors as they recover from the pandemic and work to expand capacity.

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The Potential of Cooking Turkey with Microwaves

In the simulation, the fields propagating from the emitter reached field strengths more than 5000 V/m.

Richard Norte, left, and Miguel Bessa demonstrate a new type of sensor in the lab.

Spiderweb-Inspired Microchip Sensor One of the World’s Most Precise

A “holy grail” for quantum technologies and sensing.

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, Nov. 23, seeking to block a major U.S. sugar manufacturer from acquiring its rival, arguing that allowing the deal would harm competition and consumers.

U.S. Sues to Halt Sugar Merger

They say it would harm competition.

Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 early missile warning satellite.

Lockheed Conducts Missile Warning System’s Critical Design Review

The company is making progress toward a 2025 launch.

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AstraZeneca Opens Research Center as U.K. Builds Hub

Officials hope to develop a Silicon Valley for life sciences.

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Keeping a High-Level Production Tempo Without Personnel Fallout

An obsessive focus on production levels alone can have disastrous downsides.

Des Moines Downtown Neighborhood Association president Brandon Brown stands on the roof of his condo building, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. After decades of downplaying or simply ignoring the problem, Des Moines officials here recently began a comprehensive study that will lead to tighter regulations on some smelly manufacturing plants near downtown.

Stench a Constant Reminder of City's Pork Processing Legacy

A pungent smell of rancid meat regularly wafts through the shiny new development.

Senior instructor Markus Juarez, bottom, talks to student driver Jaime Rojas at California Truck Driving Academy in Inglewood, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Amid a shortage of commercial truck drivers across the U.S., a Southern California truck driving school sees an unprecedented increase in enrollment numbers. The increase is big enough that the school is starting an evening class to meet the demand, according to Tina Singh, owner and academy director of California Truck Driving Academy. 'I think that's only going to continue because there's a lot of job opportunities. We have over 100 active jobs on our job board right now,' said Singh. The companies that normally would not hire drivers straight out of school are '100 percent' willing to hire them due to shortage issues, the director added.

Trucker School Bustles Amid U.S. Driver Shortage

Business is booming at the California Truck Driving Academy.

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JBS Enters Cultivated Meat Market With Acquisition, $100M Investment

The meat giant has acquired Spain-based BioTech Foods and building a new plant in Spain to scale up production.

J.M. Smucker to add $1.1B Uncrustables Plant in Alabama

The company expects to grow its Smucker's Uncrustables brand over the next five years to approximately $1 billion in annual net sales.