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If you don’t already know, next week is the fifth annual Safe + Sound Week, a national initiative of OSHA, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)and a coalition of safety organizations – including the National Safety Council. 

Today we are excited to announce the 1,000th client on our Intertek Alchemy Enterprise platform – Arca Continental.

Arca Continental is a global company based in Monterrey, Mexico, that produces and distributes beverages and snacks to more than 123 million consumers a day in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, and the United States. This innovative company is one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world. It also serves up Sprite, Fanta and Monster energy drinks.

Across America, employers have been grappling with how to persuade workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Some are even requiring it as a condition of work. JBS Foods, one of the largest food producers in the United States, is meeting this challenge head-on with an employee training and education program that has so far put shots in the arms of more than 38,000 employees.

Intertek Alchemy is proud to welcome Paul Reynish as the new company president. Reynish is no stranger to the food industry nor the demands and challenges global companies face today.

To help in efforts to contain the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus, Intertek Alchemy has created a new training course "COVID-19: Overview" to ensure frontline manufacturing, food processing, and service workers know how to:

We’re excited to officially launch our newest application, Alchemy Playbook. This game-changing mobile solution helps you create and deliver task-specific training to your frontline workers. Playbook also instantly finds qualified workers for any job in your facility, helping you fill unexpected personnel gaps in seconds.

When Alchemy joined forces with Intertek last year, we dedicated ourselves to designing a new look and logo to reflect the visual power of this alliance. It was hard keeping our new branding under wraps for a spell, but saving the debut for the 2019 Alchemy Engage conference was worth it. Take a look!

We’re excited to announce that Alchemy has won a spot on the highly coveted Austin American-Statesman Top Workplaces list for the fourth year in a row! The Statesman chooses the best places to work in Austin based on data from anonymous surveys sent to current employees at eligible companies. With 140 Alchemists at our Austin headquarters (and 300 total across U.S. and Canada), Alchemy competed in the medium-sized company category.

Jeff Eastman, co-founder and CEO of Alchemy Systems, was named 2017 Entrepreneur of The Year^® at a gala event last week in Austin, Texas. The award was created by the global accounting firm Ernst & Young. Since the 1980s, the Entrepreneur Of The Year award has recognized individuals who excel in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Alchemy Systems and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) recently announced a partnership enabling food companies of all sizes to more easily assess supply chain risk and build robust systems to mitigate food fraud. Food adulteration—food fraud—costs the industry billions of dollars every year and has been connected to hundreds of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths. ^*