Published: May 26, 2012

American food company HJ Heinz reported a 22% decline in net earnings in the fourth quarter ended 29 April 2012 to $175.3m, compared to $223.9m in 2011 due to one-time costs related to productivity initiatives as well as lower margins.

Published: May 26, 2012

US-based multinational agricultural biotechnology Monsanto has entered into an agreement to acquire planting technology developer Precision Planting, for $210m.

Published: May 26, 2012

FIG & OLIVE, a New York-based restaurant, has introduced its first kid’s menu which features extra virgin olive oil.

Published: May 26, 2012

Mt. Airy Meat Center, a company based in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, is recalling approximately 100 pounds of a frozen, raw chicken breast product due to allergy risk, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Published: May 26, 2012

Albemarle has launched CellVex, a new antimicrobial product for use in meat processing.

Published: May 25, 2012

The Label Submission Approval System (LSAS) is a web-based label approval system that allows food manufacturers to submit label applications electronically for approval by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Greenpeace International claims that the report, which was published yesterday (23 May), includes forensic evidence which confims the presence of rainforest fibre in packaging on KFC products sold in the UK, China and Indonesia.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Total 2012 second quarter net earnings were up 17% year-on-year, reaching $127.9 million. Most of this growth came from the company’s Jennie-O Turkey Store, which saw operating profit grow by 50% as a result of added-value sales.

Published: May 25, 2012

SAB Miller CEO Graham Mackay has noted a 'secular trend' against mainstream US beer brands and the premium light segment, but says high-end innovation can turn things around.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

General Mills has agreed to buy Brazilian food maker Yoki Alimentos for 1.95bn reais (about $853m) in a move it says could double its annual sales in Latin America.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Oliver Nieburg

US confectioners Farley's & Sathers and the Ferrara Pan Candy Company have reached a deal to merge the two companies to become the Ferrara Candy company.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

A joint venture between two US companies claims it will enable food packagers to eliminate the risk of releasing defective leak-rate products into the market.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Mark Astley

A lack of clear regulations relating to the use of nanotechnology in the food sector could hinder the commercialisation of current food safety research, a manufacturing expert has claimed.

Published: May 25, 2012

The South American-based chia seed leader, Benexia, says it is close to exhausting supplies as demand booms for the plant-sourced omega-3 source.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Rod Addy

A healthy designer fat for infant formula milk has been developed as the culmination of a global research project involving research bodies in Turkey, Istanbul and Georgia in the US.

Published: May 25, 2012

Butter, turkey, fruit, vegetable and red meat stocks on April 30, 2012, were higher than year-earlier levels, but chicken and cheese stocks were lower, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Cold Storage report.

Published: May 25, 2012

The ground beef product that was recalled last week by two South Carolina-based manufacturers was imported from Australia and contaminated before it arrived, according to one of the importers.

Published: May 25, 2012

Dr. Ron Chapman warned consumers on Thursday not to eat Taste of Roux, LLC jarred vegetarian soups because they may have been improperly produced, making them susceptible to contamination with Clostridium Botulinum.

Published: May 25, 2012

Since November, the Food and Drug Administration has now received between 900 to 1,000 complaints of dog illnesses and deaths blamed on chicken jerky treats from China, according to a report this week by JoNel Aleccia for msnbc.news.

Published: May 25, 2012

Americans are forecast to eat an estimated seven billion hot dogs between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to the National Hot Dot and Sausage Council.