Published: Aug 02, 2012

Yoplait, a business unit of General Mills, Inc., has introduced Simplait, a line extension that features six ingredients, including milk, fruit, sugar, corn starch and flavors as well as a vegetable or fruit juice extract or pectin.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Tyson Foods, Inc.’s K-12 business unit has introduced Proportion Chicken, school menu items that meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service’s 2 oz meat/meat alternate requirements.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Lallemand has opened a new 21,000-square-foot technical and distribution center in Anjou, a borough in Montreal. The center will house the company’s baking development and analytical laboratory facilities, and technical, sales and distribution personnel.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

General Mills, Inc. on Aug. 1 completed its acquisition of Yoki Alimentos S.A., a family-owned Brazilian company whose Yoki and Kitano branded products hold leading market positions in several food categories, including popcorn and snack nuts, beans, and

Published: Aug 02, 2012

PopChips, Inc. is launching a line of popped tortilla chips, which will join the brand’s lines of popped potato chips and popped sweet potato chips.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Wayne D. Lutomski has joined Welch’s as vice-president of international. He succeeds Bill Hewins, who is retiring after 30 years with Welch’s.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

The FMC Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire Pectine Italia S.p.A., a manufacturer of pectin for the food ingredients market.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Palsgaard, Inc. has introduced Extrulce 258, a system designed to allow for the manufacture of ice cream with high overrun while maintaining quality and reducing raw material costs. Overrun involves the amount of air in ice cream.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

At least 200 people fell ill last week with Norovirus infections connected to a Mexican restaurant in Michigan's Ottowa County.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

An Alaskan company is recalling its smoked salmon products because they are labeled with improper instructions that could, if followed, lead to the product's contamination with Clostridium botulinum bacteria.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Vietnam aims to boost revenues from seafood exports to $11billion by 2020, according to the General Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Nebraska, is buying Unilevers frozen meals business in North America, which markets the Bertolli and P.F. Chang's brands, for $265 million, according to Dow Jones.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

Swaziland's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mtiti Fakudze, heaped praise on Namibia's development in the fishing sector and the Ohorongo cement plant at Otavi.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have been concentrating on mackerel recently, with excellent results.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

The fishing activities of the New Zealand fishing industry in the Antarctic's Ross Sea are responsible and sustainable says the industry organisation, the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council, in anticipation of the release of a documentary film on the su

Published: Aug 02, 2012

NOAA and USDA are announcing that a draft 'National Aquaculture Research and Development Strategic Plan' for the United States is available for public review and comment.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

South Korea and China have agreed to cut back on fishing in each other's exclusive economic zones (EEZs) next year in a bid to preserve maritime resources, the farm ministry here said Tuesday.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

A warning against a fish-suffocating red tide was issued Monday along parts of South Korea's southern coast, a state fisheries institute said.

Published: Aug 02, 2012

THE Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has today ( 1 Aug) announced that the coast and seas from Dover to the River Dart in Devon will be the second area in England to benefit from marine planning.