Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Clay Hough, IDFA senior group vice president, and John Kelly, IDFA manager of international affairs, attended the 14th round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement held last week in Leesburg, Va.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Jeffrey Klineman

The Healthy Brands Collective Corp. has acquired Living Harvest Foods, a hemp products company that makes a leading brand of hemp milk, Tempt.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Meat processor JBS USA has announced changes to senior management, with current CEO Don Jackson due to retire at the end of the year.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Omega Protein faces fines of $79,200 following the death of a worker at its Moss Point processing plant in Jackson County, Mississippi after they were caught in a rotating screw conveyor.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Retail giant Sainsbury is pinning its hopes on a bumper Christmas as it plans to recruit 15,000 new workers over the festive and New Year period.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Anne Bruce

Supermarket supplier Park Cake Bakery has made a backdated pay offer to staff at its bakery in Oldham, following the threat of strike action.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Fresh hope of safeguarding 1,700 jobs at Vion’s Hall’s Broxburn meat plant emerged yesterday (September 18), after Scottish finance secretary John Swinney revealed that three parties were interested in buying the business.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: John Wood

KFC sales of halal chicken, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, may not meet the requirements of Islamic law, according to a leading group of Muslim scholars in the UK.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: FBR

The Kennedy Group, a leading provider of labeling and packaging solutions, has introduced Aqua Clear Labels which enable consumers to see more of the product and less of label.

Published: Sep 20, 2012

Starting next year the U.S. Department of Agriculture will release its closely watched monthly crop reports at noon EDT, three and half hours later than the current 8:30 a.m. release time, the USDA said Wednesday.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Greg Bluestein and J. Scott Trubey

Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler built modern-day Atlanta. Now, some heirs face foreclosures and possible ruin.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: FBR

US-based Dole Food has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its worldwide packaged foods business and Asia fresh produce business to Japanese trading house Itochu for $1.685bn in cash.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The Food Standards Agency has appointed six new members to the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP). Five members begin their three-year term of membership from September 2012 and the sixth member will commence their term in January 201

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Folic acid is good for everybody, and should be fortified into foods across Europe, according to experts meeting at the ESPEN congress.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Rod Addy

UK distributor NFT is pumping millions of euros into its operations, having secured a five-year refinancing agreement with HSBC Midlands corporate banking team.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Pactiv has purchased the stock of a manufacturer of absorbent products used in fresh meat, fish, poultry and produce and announced plans to expand a facility in Texas, with work starting at the end of 2012.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Walkers Snack Foods has been ordered to pay £30,000 after a 400kg block of compacted snack waste smashed into a worker, breaking his leg.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Mik Stones

Ministerial responsibilities in the newly reshuffled Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have been revealed.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Elaine WATSON

Hershey has officially opened its expanded chocolate factory in West Hershey, PA, unveiling “technology never before used in the manufacture of confectionery”.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Dr Pepper has incited fury among Creationist Christians, after posting a Facebook poster showing the ‘evolution of flavor’ for its flagship brand, in a tongue-in-cheek twist on the evolutionary 'March of Progress’.