The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), together with three other US food industry groups, has filed a lawsuit challenging Vermont’s mandatory GMO food labeling law. The new law, which would take effect from 1 July 2016, ...
Tags: US Industry Groups, Food Labeling
Food industry’s trade association, the Grocery Manufacturers Association in the US and other industry groups have filed a suit in federal court to block Vermont’s genetically modified organisms (GMO) labeling law. Filed in the ...
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Packaging solutions provider Ampac has introduced new packaging format, E-Z SnackPak, which is said to act as an alternative to the typical single serve VFFS snack food bag. According to the company, the new E-Z SnackPak technology offers ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Polymer additive technologies provider Addivant announced that its WESTON 705 liquid antioxidant has secured the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for food contact applications. Following the approval, WESTON 705 antioxidant, ...
Tags: Liquid Packaging, Packaging, food packaging
As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, has asked Mondelēz International to phase out unrecyclable packaging from its products and assess the environmental and operational risks associated with it. The move is a part of As ...
US-based snack food provider Tropical Foods has added new product, Peanut Butter Melts, to its Dip & Devour line. The new product, which melts, cools, and hardens like chocolate, tastes similar to rich and creamy peanut butter. It is ...
Tags: Tropical Foods, Peanut Butter, snack food
Doritos, one of the marquee brands from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, has introduced a bold new mystery to the snack food aisle. Beginning this week, shoppers will see three new mystery flavors of Doritos Jacked tortilla chips making ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, snack food
The twenty-first Scooby-Doo video has just been released. Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery was released by Warner Home Video on 24-25 March. It's not easy to get anyone excited about the twenty-first anything. And in the world of kids' ...
Bread and snack food manufacturer Goodman Fielder has announced it expects its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in the 2014 financial year to be approximately 10 to 15 per cent lower than the previously expected $180 million. The ...
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Pringles, a snack brand owned by US-based Kellogg's has unveiled a new tortilla chips range, Pringles Tortillas. Available in Original, Nacho Cheese and Southwestern Ranch flavours, the new tortilla chips retain Pringles shape and are ...
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Cardia Bioplastics is in the middle of a major expansion due to demand for its products. That growth spurt seems even more likely to continue now that it has won an IAIR Green Excellence Award. The award is the result of a global survey ...
In the first month of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 11 warning letters to food manufacturers and processors. The first two warning letters of the year were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a ...
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Mondelēz International, a US-based food and beverage firm, is geared up to invest around £75m in its Cadbury plant in Bournville, Birmingham. The investment will be used to upgrade equipment at the facility over the next three ...
Tags: investment, optimizing the costs
KLN Family Brands, an American snack food manufacturer, has purchased the former Troyer Farms potato chip plant in northwestern Pennsylvania. The company will begin the manufacturing of kettle-cooked potato chips, popcorn and other snacks ...
Tags: snack food, new plant
Performance in the field, customer demand and long-term profitability keep Ohio farmers planting high oleic Bill Bateson liked what he saw from high oleic soybeans so much the first year he grew them, he came back for an encore. Like ...