Hormel Foods has agreed to acquire Applegate Farms, a natural and organic meat products manufacturer, for around $775m. The companies have reached a definitive agreement to this effect. Applegate will operate as a separate, stand-alone ...
Russia has approved six Iranian companies to supply dairy and poultry products, a move that could allow Russia to free up from high food price inflation. The move comes after the Russian government recently said that the country will ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Poultry Products
Ulma Packaging has added to its range of flowrapping equipment, with the launch of the FM200. The new equipment from the supplier of packaging machinery and complete automated lines is for wrapping fresh food pillow pack style with ...
Tags: raw poultry, Fresh Food
Brazilian meat processor JBS is exploring opportunities for possible acquisitions in North and South America and Australia. The company will consider acquisitions in the chicken, pork and branded, packaged food industries this year, ...
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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong has imposed a ban on poultry meat imports from parts of US and Turkey over bird flu outbreak. This comes after US state of Nebraska and World ...
Tags: Poultry Meat, Imports Ban
Hershey will add new snacking products to its existing product range at the National Confectioners Association’s annual Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. Commenting on the expansion, Hershey North America president Michele Buck ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has rejected appeal from the US regarding the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat dispute between the US, Canada and Mexico. WTO said that labels carrying information about where meat is raised ...
Tags: Origin Labeling, labeling
TA1 texture analyser (available from Bestech Australia) is used by the Scottish Agricultural College for shear force measurements to measure the eating quality of meat. Uniformity and enhancement of meat eating quality is seen as an ...
Specialty food ingredients company Campus has partnered with White Bridge Investments to ramp up internationalization and commercial network expansion. Both the companies have signed an agreement to this effect. White Bridge, the new ...
US senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a new bill that would improve the recall process for meat and poultry products, giving the USDA mandatory recall authority over contaminated products. This comes after a new investigation ...
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is contemplating plans to develop new food labeling laws to give consumers more accurate and easy-to-understand information about the products' place of origin. This ...
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According to the monitoring of MOFCOM, the prices of farm produce in 36 large and medium-sized cities continued to fall, and prices of production means in circulation stopped falling and picked up last week (April 27-March 3). Last week, ...
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Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry meat
The protein and sandwich supplier AdvancePierre Foods has completed the acquisition of the manufacturing assets of American stuffed sandwich maker Better Bakery on undisclosed terms. Better Bakery's production operations will now be moved ...
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Last week, Faerch Plast announced its arrival in Australia. This week it has announced its acquisition of Anson, a manufacturer of thermoformed packaging solutions. The acquisition takes place just a year after private equity fund EQT VI, ...
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