September/October 2023 - 4

THE PROCESS MEL INDA WALDROP
Vol. 9, No. 5
POWERING A
PRODUCTIVITY
EXPLOSION
Imagine being 16 times more productive.
That's a reality TOMRA Foods technology helped
Melinda Waldrop
Managing Editor
one South Carolina farming and canning operation
achieve. While we might use such a boost to turboclean
our house, get mega-results at the gym or
power through all the books on our reading list,
McCall Farms turned that production surge into,
among other things, green beans - lots of them.
Using TOMRA's state-of-the-art 5B optical sorting
machine, McCall went from producing 18 million
cans of green beans per year in 2018 to 204 million
four years later. You can read more about how that eye-popping jump
happened, as well as what the state of South Carolina is doing to
help similar agribusinesses buoy operations, starting on page 12.
Also in our September/October issue, read about how one company
is looking to the future with a nod to its nearly century-old past.
Duda Farm Fresh Foods, which was founded 97 years ago as a modest
celery-growing operation, now produces 33% of the celery grown in
the U.S. The company is making ambitious recycling goals (page 6)
a prime focus in an effort to continue that growth in a sustainable
way that would make founder Andrew Duda proud.
You can also learn ways to effectively make sanitation goals
understood and achievable (page 8), as well as read tips from one
industry expert on reducing the 80 billion pounds of food one metric
estimates is wasted in the U.S. each year (page 16).
On page 18, a self-described food safety " nerd " and Center for
Produce Safety technical committee member offers advice on
monitoring ever-present listeria threats, while on page 20, the
Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI) takes
a detailed look at how automation is changing - and improving -
the produce processing industry.
Thanks for reading Produce Processing, and we hope these pages
provide a productivity pick-me-up!
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Editorial Advisory Board
Adrienne Seiling, American Frozen Food Institute
Rudi Groppe, Heinzen Manufacturing International
Lou Cooperhouse, Rutgers Food Innovation Center
Sherrie Rosenblatt, Can Manufacturers Institute
Leonard Batti, Taylor Farms, Salinas, California
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