Many of these changes have become permanent as companies ramp up their protocols to ensure food and worker safety.

As bakers, snack manufacturers diversify product lines, inspection systems have more to balance.

Drop 44%, the first full quarter in pandemic.

Aimmune Therapeutics owns an FDA-approved treatment for peanut allergies.

Ignoring proper sanitation of oft-forgotten conveyors could result in costly food safety issues.

May help assess employee health, social distancing and food safety.

Secure packaging becomes an essential selling point for baked foods.

Certification programs set the standard for mitigating food safety risks, including those that emerged from the recent pandemic.

After 10% of the bakery’s workforce tested positive for the virus, the company’s outbreak plan was put into action.