ABSTRACT
This chapter examines an annual survey from Food Engineering, a major and respected food publication dedicated to food manufacturing that identifies the industries’ top ten operating issues. In this survey, the number one issue was food safety. Business issues within an industry tend to remain semi-static unless there is a disruptive event, such as:
• New, demanding, government-imposed regulation • A serious economic decline • New technology • Dramatic changes in global trading • A significant (hundred-year) natural disaster • The impacts of global warming
Absent any disruptive event in any given year, the issues will essentially remain the same from year to year.
