Orlando, Fla. – N2N Global announces high-tech solutions and support to help agri-businesses grow in all areas of their operation. N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. For Supply Side companies, N2N offers agri-ERP solutions, farm management, food safety, business analytics and traceability software. For direct to consumer and buy side companies, N2N offers food safety, compliance, and asset tracking tools to help ensure the food supply is properly managed for minimized risk. N2N Global provides comprehensive solutions for companies looking for ways to improve efficiencies, enhance profitability, and ensure food safety.

N2N Global software suite provides accurate and integrated technology for agri-businesses allowing companies to make concise and timely business decisions, and communicate those decisions across business operations. In the complex and competitive agri-business arena, the ability to analyze data in one place, make split second decisions and communicate them up and down the chain of command mean the difference between success and failure for grower, packer or shipper.

“N2N’s vision allows companies to look at their business in a whole new light. This enables them to deliver value to customers, drive market share gains, and enhance customer relationships through access to information for executive decision support,” says Angela Nardone. Nardone’s Florida based company provides operations compliance, and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the bsupply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributors, packers and processors around the world.

How N2N Global Does It

N2N Global’s business analytics solution has key features to make operations more efficient. This ground-breaking solution provides comprehensive integration of data for complete traceability and visibility into every aspect of the operation. N2N Global also supplies key performance indicators “KPI” that are included in standard reporting.

As a result there are many benefits critical to agri-business success, including the ability to customize reporting for client specific requests. N2N also offers complete data transparency for executive planning and analysis. N2N’s Global solutions are easy to use for non-technical users seeking enhanced information.

N2N Global has built from the ground up, a business analytics solution that seamlessly integrates comprehensive food production and traceability capabilities with other ERP elements, including sales and operations, inventory management, warehouse management and financials.

“All of this in turn helps companies make business decisions based on real-time data and analyze the health operation based on sophisticated drill down capabilities. Data that is captured at any point along the business process can now be utilized by other functional groups to improve their overall operation. Let’s face it, with the demands by the public and federal government to keep the food supply safe and enhance traceability at every level, businesses need all the help they can get to stay in compliance and to provide the healthiest food possible and we are helping to ensure that happens,” says Nardone. “In addition, N2N helps companies look beyond the day to day. With our solutions, sales and production can see the results of the Commodity Forecast from the field and adjust their plans accordingly. Not only does N2N vision help look in the future, it also helps in analyzing data from seasons past.”

About N2N Global

N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. To contact Angela Nardone directly, visit her on N2N’s twitter page http://www.twitter.com/n2nglobal . For more information, please visit http://http://n2nglobal.com . Through enhanced reporting, notifications, and system “checks”, management can feel confident that less burden is placed on local staff to ensure that national suppliers are performing in a manner consistent with negotiated contracts.

Orlando, Fla. – N2N Global announces high-tech solutions and support to help agri-businesses grow in all areas of their operation. N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. For Supply Side companies, N2N offers agri-ERP solutions, farm management, food safety, business analytics and traceability software. For direct to consumer and buy side companies, N2N offers food safety, compliance, and asset tracking tools to help ensure the food supply is properly managed for minimized risk. N2N Global provides comprehensive solutions for companies looking for ways to improve efficiencies, enhance profitability, and ensure food safety.

 
N2N Global software suite provides accurate and integrated technology for agri-businesses allowing companies to make concise and timely business decisions, and communicate those decisions across business operations. In the complex and competitive agri-business arena, the ability to analyze data in one place, make split second decisions and communicate them up and down the chain of command mean the difference between success and failure for grower, packer or shipper.

 
“N2N’s vision allows companies to look at their business in a whole new light. This enables them to deliver value to customers, drive market share gains, and enhance customer relationships through access to information for executive decision support,” says Angela Nardone. Nardone’s Florida based companyprovides operations compliance, and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributors, packers and processors around the world.

How N2N Global Does It

N2N Global’s business analytics solution has key features to make operations more efficient. This ground-breaking solution provides comprehensive integration of data for complete traceability and visibility into every aspect of the operation. N2N Global also supplies key performance indicators “KPI” that are included in standard reporting.

 
As a result there are many benefits critical to agri-business success, including the ability to customize reporting for client specific requests. N2N also offers complete data transparency for executive planning and analysis. N2N’s Global solutions are easy to use for non-technical users seeking enhanced information.

 
N2N Global has built from the ground up, a business analytics solution that seamlessly integrates comprehensive food production and traceability capabilities with other ERP elements, including sales and operations, inventory management, warehouse management and financials.

 
“All of this in turn helps companies make business decisions based on real-time data and analyze the health operation based on sophisticated drill down capabilities. Data that is captured at any point along the business process can now be utilized by other functional groups to improve their overall operation. Let’s face it, with the demands by the public and federal government to keep the food supply safe and enhance traceability at every level, businesses need all the help they can get to stay in compliance and to provide the healthiest food possible and we are helping to ensure that happens,” says Nardone. “In addition, N2N helps companies look beyond the day to day. With our solutions, sales and production can see the results of the Commodity Forecast from the field and adjust their plans accordingly. Not only does N2N vision help look in the future, it also helps in analyzing data from seasons past.”

About N2N Global

N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. To contact Angela Nardone directly, visit her on N2N’s twitter page http://www.twitter.com/n2nglobal. For more information, please visit http://http://n2nglobal.com. Through enhanced reporting, notifications, and system “checks”, management can feel confident that less burden is placed on local staff to ensure that national suppliers are performing in a manner consistent with negotiated contracts.

Orlando, Fla. – N2N Global is pleased to announce an innovative food safety program for hotels and hospitality companies.

“Much like the restaurants and quick serve industries, the hotel and hospitality industry also sources their products from all over the world,” said Angela Nardone. Nardone’s Florida based company provides operations compliance, and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributors, growers, packers and processors around the world.

“Each year millions of hotel guests are served dishes with ingredients that are not always easy to trace. However, given how crucial a hotel brand is to both its stakeholders and its guests, ensuring the safety and traceability of its food sources is vital,” she said.

Through N2N Global’s tried and trusted enterprise software solution, Quality & Food Safety Manager (QFSM), hotels and hospitality companies will be able to easily and efficiently control food safety and quality within your organization. Easily adapted for the hotel and hospital industry (both food and non-food operations), QFSM electronically captures data and organizes it into a single database, making it easy for you to analyze real data identify trends and introduce continuous improvement in order to achieve better oversight, better results, and better enterprise compliance within given guidelines.

“Hotel food safety is more than just about checking off boxes. With so many different department involved in the food services process, training is also a key component. QFSM helps customer manage training, certifications, and ensures staff is always up to date with the best information.”

Many hospitality operators also have numerous standard operating procedures (SOPs) and quality assurance/quality compliance (QA/QC) strategies that are not associated with food. QFSM is designed to track and report these activities, such as room cleaning and hotel sanitation, which makes QFSM even more beneficial and an even greater value.

N2N Global is pleased to announce its new cutting edge Quality and Food Safety Program for restaurants and food service companies, said Chairwoman Angela Nardone. According to 2010 estimates from the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), about 48 million people get sick in the US every year from food-borne diseases, Ms. Nardone said. Of that number, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die as a result of a foodborne illness. That means that 1 out of 6 consumers suffer from a foodborne illness at some point this year. With such staggering numbers, it’s no surprise that the food service industry has taken food safety compliance so seriously, Ms. Nardone added.

Ms. Nardone’s Florida based company provides operations compliance, and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributors, growers, packers and processors around the world. Restaurant food safety is an important area to Ms. Nardone.

“It’s never been more important for restaurants and food service companies to control food safety and quality throughout the food supply chain,” Ms. Nardone added.

Ideal for the restaurant and food service industry, N2N Global’s Quality & Food Safety Manager(QFSM) provides food safety compliance and product traceability from the source to the kitchen, helping ensure that the food served is safe and that it lives up to high levels of quality and consistency.

QFSM allows food industry companies to centrally manage all of the plans that get executed remotely. Electronically deliver the specific executions and capture the results. This insures all locations are on the most current plan and provides real time electronic information for analysis and continuous improvement.

“What’s more it allows customers to fully automate their front and back of the house compliance programs,” Ms. Nardone said.

Utilizing N2N Global’s software solutions, restaurants can electronically create orders for suppliers; match the product received at the restaurant location to the original order (account for quantity, quality, and even brand discrepancies); collect GS1 compliant traceability information; assign attributes or expirations when the product is received and placed it into storage (cooler, freezer, or dry storage); decrement that inventory as used or at the end of each day; and automatically generate a suggested new order upon daily usage of existing physical inventory.

“My goal in life is to help restaurants with their food safety & quality assurance process. I am their biggest customer!,” Ms. Nardone said. “So I have a vested interest to help them provide their highest quality to the market.”

The technology platform, built by IBM business partner N2N Global, collects, stores and analyzes data about the food being handled by Cherry Central Cooperativefrom the time it is harvested and processed, to its journey through distribution warehouses, to its ultimate retail destination in grocery stores. From a compliance standpoint, that is mandated. But that information also happens to help the cooperative stay better on top of inventory needs and make projections about future harvest scenarios.

The information is collected throughout the harvest and distribution process using mobile devices. From there it is uploaded to a central database, where the information can be shared with Traverse City, Mich.-based Cherry Central’s supply chain business partners as the food makes its way to grocery or market shelves. The process and solution are described in the video below.

Steve Eiseler, vice president of operations at Cherry Central Cooperative, said the IBM-based technology has allowed his organization to significantly reduce the amount of paperwork necessary to remain in compliance with government food traceability requirements — which are critically important for tracking sources of contamination.

“We take our responsibility in the food supply chain seriously,” Eiseler said. “We wanted to feel more comfortable in what we were doing.”

The sheer volume of paperwork being handled by Cherry Central, originally started in 1973, prompted its evaluation of technologies that could help it grapple with data that is growing exponentially on a monthly basis. Back in October, Cherry Central reported that its database was growing at a rate of 1.6 million records per month. Its ability to pull up that information more quickly differentiates Cherry Central from other organization that have to weed through paperwork when there is a food safety concern. It turned to its longtime IT services partner, N2N Global, to help it evaluate different solutions.

“When we started analyzing with this program could do, it just seemed like a good fit, and there was a relatively short return on investment,” Eiseler said.

The technology that Cherry Central is using includes IBM DB2 Web Query running on the Power System platform. The cooperative is using a custom IBM System x application from N2N Global called the Quality & Food Safety Manager.

“We have had solutions in the agribusiness space for some time. We though it would help advance the food industry by offering these components together,” said Randy Odom, director of sales and marketing for N2N Global.

Cherry Central began using the technology about two years ago, and Eiseler reports that what began as a project concerned with compliance has turned into a serious operational advantage for Cherry Central Cooperative.

“This collaboration is helping us create a well-connected and visible food supply chain to make it easier and faster to track the food items we market while also allowing us to spot trends as they’re occurring real time,” Eiseler said in comments about the solution. “This visibility is enabling is to take proactive measures to ensure food safety and ultimately protecting the consumer.”

QFSM manages the content of business process workflows associated with, but not limited to, food safety and quality control. It enables food supply chain businesses of any size, anywhere in the world, to economically and efficiently deploy sophisticated quality and food safety capabilities for both traceability and materials management.

“Food safety is a serious business says Angela Nardone, Chairwoman of Orlando-based N2N Global. Nardone’s Florida based company provides operations compliance and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributers, packers and processors around the world.

“Steps can and should be taken to improve our food safety system so we can detect food-borne illnesses, locate the source of the problem and get tainted food off the shelves more quickly,” Nardone said. “When it comes to Quality and Food Safety Management, being reactive is not enough and being proactive is just the beginning, especially when it comes to eliminating costly risks.”

Additionally, Nardone says, because QFSM collects all data from the daily execution of compliance plans at each of the operating locations, a vast array of data is available that’s been previously unavailable or unattainable. Data that can save lives.

“This data is organized and ready to be used to help you ensure compliance, manage deviations, generate effective reports, and can also provide you with key insights that can lead to continuous improvements in your operation,” said Nardone.

About N2N Global

N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. For Supply Side companies, N2N offers agri-ERP solutions, farm management, food safety, business analytics and traceability software. For direct to consumer and buy side companies, N2N offers food safety, compliance, and asset tracking tools to help ensure the food supply is properly managed for minimized risk. N2N Global provides comprehensive solutions for companies looking for ways to improve efficiencies, enhance profitability, and ensure food safety. To contact Angela Nardone directly, visit her on N2N’s twitter page http://www.twitter.com/n2nglobal. For more information, please visit http://www.n2nglobal.com

Orlando, FL: Food safety is a serious business says Angela Nardone, Chairwoman of Orlando-based N2N Global. Nardone’s Florida based company provides operations compliance and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Nardone works with restaurants, retailers, distributers, packers and processors around the world.

“Steps can and should be taken to improve our food safety system so we can detect food-borne illnesses, locate the source of the problem and get tainted food off the shelves more quickly,” Nardone said. “When it comes to Quality and Food Safety Management, being reactive is not enough and being proactive is just the beginning, especially when it comes to eliminating costly risks.”

More and more, growing concerns about quality and food safety have led consumers and other stakeholders to demand greater transparency in the way food is grown and handled throughout the food supply chain. As a result, traceability has emerged as a crucial policy issue in food quality and safety, and a significant business issue overall.

With the only software solution in the industry that can do it all. N2N Global’s Quality & Food Safety Manager (QFSM) is an enterprise software solution that helps you manage ever-changing compliance protocols. Based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), N2N Global’s QFSM electronically captures data (i.e. temperature readings, chlorine readings, sanitation checks, hourly walk-throughs, etc.) and organizes the information into a single database.

QFSM manages the content of business process workflows associated with, but not limited to, food safety and quality control. It enables food supply chain businesses of any size, anywhere in the world, to economically and efficiently deploy sophisticated quality and food safety capabilities, which can enhance both traceability and materials management.

Additionally, because QFSM collects all data from the daily execution of compliance plans at each of the operating location, you’re able to have a vast array of data at your disposal that’s been previously unavailable or unattainable. This data is organized and ready to be used to help you ensure compliance, manage deviations, generate effective reports, and can also provide you with key insights that can lead to continuous improvements in your operation.

QFSM differentiates you from your competition by demonstrating your ability to execute and mitigate risk for your organization and your trading partners.

About N2N Global

N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. For Supply Side companies, N2N offers agri-ERP solutions, farm management, food safety, business analytics and traceability software. For direct to consumer and buy side companies, N2N offers food safety, compliance, and asset tracking tools to help ensure the food supply is properly managed for minimized risk. N2N Global provides comprehensive solutions for companies looking for ways to improve efficiencies, enhance profitability, and ensure food safety. To contact Angela Nardone directly, visit her on N2N’s twitter page http://www.twitter.com/n2nglobal. For more information, please visit http://www.n2nglobal.com

Over 50 companies throughout the produce supply chain have endorsed the PTI, an initiative that moves the supply chain to a common standard for electronic produce traceability by the end of 2012. The plan involves adopting a standardized system of case barcoding for all produce sold in the United States, to allow product to be tracked throughout the distribution chain.

The plan will maximize the effectiveness of the industry’s current traceability procedures and assist public officials when they need to quickly trace back a product. Intended to enhance overall supply chain traceability in speed and efficiency, a standardized system could significantly improve the industry’s ability to narrow the impact of potential recalls or similar problems. The PTI is administered by United Fresh Produce Association (United Fresh) the Produce Marketing Association (PMA), and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA).

As a member of all three of the sponsoring organizations, N2N Global is committed to helping industry members learn about and implement the PTI.

Paymard’s Florida based company provides food traceability solutions, operations compliance, and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Paymard works with restaurants, retailers, distributers, growers, packers and processors around the world.

“The PTI initiative is important because it is the first step in moving toward true supply chain traceability for the produce industry and enhances and maintains the confidence of consumers and government, supports growers, packers and shippers commitment to food safety”, says Paymard. “The exciting news is that so many companies have signed on and we are working to get more by the start of 2012.”

The PTI uses the GS1 standards tracking system, which is the most widely used product identification and supply chain standard in the world.

The U.P.C. found on many consumer products is part of the GS1 System and the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) used with PTI is part of its global standards. Retailers, distributors and many companies in the produce industry already use the GS1 System with their products or their systems are capable of scanning and processing information based on GS1 standards.

The GS1 standards are also used with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications such as the Electronic Product Code (EPC); this RFID application uses the same data standards and structures as the barcodes so firms can leverage their investment in the GS1 System.

The foodservice industry also relies upon GS1 standards in its supply chain and foodservice distributors such as Sysco, US Foodservice, FSA and the International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA) all support the PTI.

About N2N Global

N2N Global’s product suite brings powerful solutions for all members of the food supply chain. For Supply Side companies, N2N offers agri-ERP solutions, farm management, food safety, business analytics and traceability software. For direct to consumer and buy side companies, N2N offers food safety, compliance, and asset tracking tools to help ensure the food supply is properly managed for minimized risk. N2N Global provides comprehensive solutions for companies looking for ways to improve efficiencies, enhance profitability, and ensure food safety. To contact Angela Paymard directly, visit her on N2N’s twitter page http://www.twitter.com/n2nglobal. For more information, please visit http://www.n2nglobal.com

In the wake of highly-publicized outbreaks of illnesses traced to food, costing $152 billion a year in the U.S., with 48 million food-related illnesses and 3,000 deaths a year, governments around the world are proposing more stringent regulations to better protect consumers from food borne illnesses. A breakdown at any point in the food system on the farm-to-table spectrum can cause catastrophic harm to the health of consumers and great disruption and economic loss to the food industry.

More than six billion cases of fruits and vegetables alone travel across the U.S. each year. As this food travels through various points of the supply chain there are possibilities of this food being exposed to temperatures or other factors that could lead to its contamination.

To ensure the safest food products reach the shelves of grocery stores and ingredient buyer locations, Cherry Central is collaborating with IBM and business partner N2N Global. With IBM analytics technology, Cherry Central is tracking data from the time fruit is harvested, sorted or processed, sent to a distribution warehouse, and finally unloaded and placed on display counters at a grocery store or ingredient buyer location. All of this activity data can now be collected, viewed, aggregated and analyzed in real time, all with a few clicks of a mouse.

Additionally, workers now can use mobile devices to record key information, such as date, time, location, temperature, and all aspects of quality and food safety compliance. The information is uploaded to a centralized database, where it is stored and can be accessed and shared by their supply chain trading partners.

Each time the food moves or is handled by someone new, the data can be updated through mobile devices, recorded and aggregated instantaneously to provide a complete, accurate picture within its operations. This, in turn, minimizes unnecessary administrative tasks and data entry, allowing management to focus more on business growth than data capturing.

Cherry Central can now more precisely record incoming fruit from growers, track the food items through their operations and monitor and report on all critical control points such as refrigeration and processing temperatures, thus improving the overall traceability and visibility of the products they handle. These new capabilities are helping Cherry Central track food from harvest to dinner table to avoid contamination pitfalls.

“Cherry Central and its trading partners are a microcosm of the entire food supply chain. In working IBM and N2N Global, we are taking advantage of a solution that tears down the barriers and complexity of the food supply chain,” said Steve Eiseler, vice president of operations at Cherry Central Cooperative. “This collaboration is helping us create a well-connected and visible food supply chain to make it easier and faster to track the food items we market while also allowing us to spot trends as they’re occurring real time. This visibility is enabling is to take proactive measures to ensure food safety and ultimately protecting the consumer.”

Overcome Cultural Barriers and Keeping Pace with Food Regulations

One of the major challenges for Cherry Central is to provide better transparency and usability of its data that is growing at the rate of 1.6 million records per month. Many in the food industry still use paper-based solutions that produce paper checklists and questionnaires to perform audits and inspections on their fruits and vegetables and processing/packing systems . As paper forms are returned to the office, they are “manually” entered into the computer leaving room for human error, generating mountains of paperwork and the possibility of misplacing files – making it more difficult to pinpoint the source of a possible contamination, causing costly and potentially critical delays.

Now, with analytics technology, Cherry Central is not only capturing this data, but using analytics to create real business outcomes from it. For example, processing data can be analyzed real time and decisions can be made immediately rather than waiting hours or days until the data is compiled.

In addition, all small businesses are impacted by federal regulations and government mandates. Small businesses operating in the food industry, however, have additional layers of regulations and mandates defined by federal and state agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. The new Food Safety Modernization Act as well as industry trade association standards have added new and complex compliance demands to the landscape.

“IBM is committed to bringing advanced capabilities such as analytics to clients and business partners to help them transform the way they deliver their products and services to their clients,” Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM Midmarket Business. “We are collaborating with Cherry Central in an effort to bring a small to midsize business at the forefront of innovation to improve its ability to quickly trace tainted food through a more transparent food supply chain, ultimately ensuring the safety of consumers.”

Cherry Central’s business analytics platform provides product traceability consisting of IBM DB2 Web Query running on Power System. Its quality & food safety program runs on N2N Global’s Quality & Food Safety Manager solution running on IBM System x.

For more information on N2N Global: www.n2nglobal.com

Lizette Kodama
IBM Media Relations
646-675-0750
lkodama@us.ibm.com

SOURCE IBM

“Pumpkins produce warm pies, butter, cookies, bread and side dishes. They are loaded with an excellent source of nutrients. The bright orange color tells you that it is full of the important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Research shows that a diet rich in foods containing beta-carotene can reduce the risk of developing many types of diseases,” says Angela Paymard, Chairwoman of the Orlando based, N2N Global. Paymard’s Florida based company provides operations compliance and food safety solutions for food companies, which helps ensure the world’s food supply operates in an efficient and effective manner, resulting in a higher quality of food in the supply chain. Paymard works with restaurants, retailers, distributers, packers and processors around the world.

If you have kids, it’s a good idea to let them have a pumpkin for carving and choose another for cooking. It certainly is safe to let them use the seeds from the one they have carved. The best pumpkins for eating are the ones that are heavy for their size.

Preparing your Pumpkin:

Start with clean hands and wash the pumpkin in cool water to remove any surface dirt. Using a sharp knife, remove the stem, then scoop out the seeds and scrape away all of that stringy stuff. Cut the pumpkin into large chunks and rinse in cold water. Now you can boil, bake; even microwave the pumpkin, whatever your favorite recipe calls for.

If you are not going to eat your pumpkin right away, make a puree by putting the peeled pumpkin into the food processor. Puree freezes well. Place it in plastic bags, and be sure to label and date them. In the freezer it will last up to a year. “If you don’t want to puree the pumpkin, cut into slices, and boil it before freezing. That will yield the safest and best quality of food,” Paymard says.

Freezing Facts:

• Freezing does not destroy nutrients.
• Freshness and quality at the time of freezing can affect frozen foods.
• Freeze items you won’t use quickly, sooner than later.
• To successfully freeze vegetables, partially cook them in boiling water or in the microwave oven. Then chill them quickly before freezing and storing.

With mashed or pureed pumpkin, canning is not recommended. Pumpkin is a low acid food that is capable of building bacteria if stored in the wrong conditions. If the pumpkin is cubed or sliced, however, canning in a sealed, pressure container is safe.

Pumpkins seeds are also a very popular fall treat. After they are removed from the pumpkin, the seeds must be checked to make sure there is no excess pumpkin tissue. Once the seeds are clean, dry them of all moisture either under the sun or in a dehydrator. Seeds should not be stored with excess moisture. You can safely bake them once they are dry.

You can certainly make pumpkin preserves. It’s a popular and safe use of pumpkins; however, care must be taken into the preservation. Due to the low acidity of pumpkins, there must be a substantial amount of sugar or added acid to ensure safety and inhibit the build-up of bacteria.

The coming of the fall season brings these fresh, tasty pumpkin treats for all food lovers. N2N Global offers these tips in the preservation of pumpkins to ensure your safety and those around you.