Agri-business company Olam International plans to invest around $61m to build a new cocoa processing facility in Indonesia. The facility will produce cocoa butter, cocoa cake and high quality cocoa powders, with an initial capacity of ...
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Amira Nature Foods (ANFI), a leading global provider of branded and packaged Indian specialty rice, announced that it had entered into a $8.3 million contract through its Indian operating subsidiary with Buhler India Private Limited ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the fire burning underground at the Integrated Waste Management Tire site in Penuelas, Puerto Rico is now fully extinguished and the potential health risks from the smoke have ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered Molycorp Minerals, LLC, to pay a $27,300 penalty for improper management of hazardous waste at its San Bernardino County mine and mineral processing facility. The violations were ...
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Brazilian poultry meats exporter and dairy products processor BRF has increased its holding in Abu Dhabi-based Federal Foods for $27.8m. The acquisition is a part of the Brazilian firm's strategy to expand its reach across the ...
Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine today warmly welcomed plans by the Killybegs Fishermen’s’ Organisation (KFO) and a Norwegian partner, to build the largest marine food ingredients plant in the ...
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Australia-based Roy Hill Holdings has announced that it has signed a $7.2 billion funding package for the Roy Hill iron ore mining project located in West Australia's Pilbara region. According to Roy Hill Holdings, the Roy Hill project ...
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US pork processor Smithfield Foods has halted hog slaughter operations at its pork processing facility in Tar Heel,North Carolina,over Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus(PEDv). The Tar Heel site has shortened the slaughter operations ...
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Dairy is the health food of the nation because its export sales potential, mostly to China and the rest of SE Asia, will help to keep our economy in good shape... ...So long-life milk manufacturer, Pactum Dairy Group, has developed a ...
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Scottish meat processor Malcolm Allan has opened a new processing plant in Larbert, Falkirk council, creating 35 new jobs. The new plant, which secures the future of 125 existing full time employees, will increase the company's capacity ...
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Thomas Canning is set to build a fruit and vegetable processing facility in Essex County, Ontario, Canada, in line with its efforts to expand its presence in the country and overseas. In support of the project, the company will receive ...
At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
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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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US-based Cargill has designed communications initiatives for consumers to get more information about the ground beef products and started labeling some of them that contain finely textured beef. The initiative includes an array of ...
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National Beef Packing Company announced today that they will be closing their beef processing facility in Brawley, California in early April. The closure is the result of tight margins due to declining cattle numbers. The plant employs ...
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