US-based poultry producer Simmons Prepared Foods has announced an investment of $300m to build a new chicken operation facility in Benton County, Arkansas. Operations at the new chicken processing plant, located between Decatur and ...
Ring Container Technologies, a leader in the product packaging and plastic container manufacturing industry, announced its collaboration with Conagra Brands on an aerosol-to-plastic conversion for PAM Cooking Spray, which is now available ...
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Quorn Foods, a producer of meat-alternatives, has launched a new range of refrigerated products in the US. The products, which are 100% meat and soy-free, will include an Italian Sausage, Chicken & Apple Sausage, and Chicken Strips. ...
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Enjoy Life Foods has announced a complete packaging makeover for its entire product portfolio featuring the unofficial shade of food allergy awareness, bright teal. The first to debut Enjoy Life’s bold new look are new Grain & Seed ...
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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have used brewery waste to grow yeast required to make beer. A new process has been invented by scientists to turn spent brewery grains into a product that can ...
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US-based Hormel Foods has entered into South America with the acquisition of Brazilian meat company Cidade do Sol for about $104m. Cidade do Sol offers over 70 products in 15 categories that include meats like mortadella, sausage and ...
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Naturally Splendid Enterprises has executed a definitive agreement with Prosnack Natural Foods and and iCream Capital to acquire 100% of Prosnack. Prosnack is a Canadian company based in North Vancouver. Under the terms of its agreement ...
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Scottish gin distillery Edinburgh Gin has opted for a new bottle design for its fruit gin liqueurs. The new bottles will be hand-blown by artisan glassmakers in Italy and they will feature the distillery’s logo embossed on to the ...
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Impossible Foods says that it has passed important milestones for food safety, including a unanimous expert-panel affirmation of the safety of a key ingredient used in its products. A panel of food safety and allergy experts at three ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency said investigations into the Fipronil incident in Europe continue and it has now established that more eggs from affected farms than previously identified came to the UK. It is very unlikely that these eggs ...
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Private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has signed an agreement to sell its portfolio company Novel Ingredients to specialty ingredients provider Innophos Holdings. Novel Ingredients, which was acquired by GenNx360 in March 2014, is ...
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Blue Pacific Flavors, an organic flavor and ingredient manufacturer has opened a new research and development laboratory, dubbed the Flavor Creation and Culinary Innovation Center. The lab handles all product development and flavor ...
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PureCircle has developed the first commercially viable stevia antioxidant product providing food and beverage companies new access to health and wellness ingredients for their consumers. While researchers have known that antioxidants are ...
Privately-held pharmaceutical firm Purdue Products has released new packaging for the Colace product line. The new packaging for the Colace stool softener brand and Senokot tablets was designed based on the consumer research carried out ...
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Tyson Foods is recalling about 2.4 million pounds of ready-to-eat breaded chicken products because of misbranding and undeclared allergens. The known allergen ingredient in the form of milk had come from one of the company's suppliers who ...
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