Sumer is icumen in, and Unilever's North American operation, based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is rolling out a wide range of new ice cream and other frozen treats under several brands. The rundown:
Don McRae, Minister of Agriculture for British Columbia clarifies provisions within the new Animal Health Act and allays concerns expressed by some, specifically around privacy issues and disclosure of disease outbreaks.
A second British Columbian salmon farm is under an official Canadian Food Inspection Agency quarantine order after a positive test for infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is in the process of amending the Southern Bluefin Tuna Management Plan 1995 to allow for the introduction of new monitoring arrangements for the purse seine sector.
For decades, US fisheries have tested the algal toxin levels of shellfish caught for human consumption by processing a sample of the shellfish in a blender and injecting the resulting slurry into the abdomen of live mice.
Bluefin tuna, carrying radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's nuclear power plant, have travelled over 6,000 miles across the Pacific to the US. It is the first time a large migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
Specialty ingredients supplier DSM has developed a four-page toolkit that champions using an enzyme and yeast cell wall blend to complete replacement of guar gum in bakery products.
It's been another huge year for farmland values and credit conditions in the heart of the Corn Belt. But, more players in the region's ag lending sector say they're less bullish on these trends continuing in the next year.
Based on strong sales in the company's seed and traits business, Monsanto leaders say they expect financial performance to outpace expectations earlier this year.
US-based Ice cream retail chains Marble Slab Creamery and MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery will debut new summer flavors and products throughout the summer inspired by locations all over the world.
Israel-based nutraceutical ingredients company LycoRed has announced that past month, it has doubled the production of Tomat-O-Red, its FDA-approved, all-natural red color based on lycopene.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has released two studies that found more than 99% of a wide variety of food samples tested were compliant with Health Canada standards for chemical residues.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved the use of dibromo-dimethylhydantoin (DBDMH) as an antimicrobial washing agent across all food products.
Jensen Farms, based in Colorado, US, that grew cantaloupes which were associated with a Listeria outbreak in the US last year, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
