In October 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a draft risk assessment on the levels of contaminants in spices. The report made headlines nationwide for including the finding that 12 percent of spices imported to the U.S. ...
Elizabeth Arden dispenser ensures a continuous product flow Elizabeth Arden selected Airopack as an all-plastic, pressurized dispenser that uses 42 percent less energy and emits 74 percent less CO2 than a typical aerosol can to dispense ...
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In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than 500 people were sickened by seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to chicken. However, salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Heidelberg is only ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine
Octal, an Oman-based manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins and integrated PET sheets, will supply DPET/PE trays to Saudi Arabia-based foods major Almarai. Almarai will use the DPET/PE trays in the packaging of its ...
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Z Trim Holdings, Inc., a biotechnology company providing value-added ingredients to a variety of industries, today announced that it recorded, for the 4th quarter of 2013, $387,006 in sales which is a 76% increase over $220,433 in the 4th ...
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The recent USDA report on hog and pig numbers shows tighter supplies coming into 2014. Jim Robb of the Livestock Market Information Center says that report will impact beef prices a lot more than an average hog and pigs count. "We've had ...
Tags: Hog, Hog Supplies, Beef Producers
The Valley Meat Co., fired the latest volley in the battle surrounding the opening of a horse processing plant in Roswell, N.M., this week when it sued New Mexico Attorney General Gary King for slander. Horse slaughter has not taken place ...
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This is part two in a series of three articles on organic foods originally published by Food Sentry on March 31, 2013. Read part one here: The Low-Down on Organic Foods. With the basics behind us of what constitutes an organic product ...
Soybeans were higher on fund and commercial buying, along with spillover from corn. 2013 soybean production was up on the year and larger than expected at 3.29 billion bushels, while quarterly stocks were up on the year, but ending stocks ...
Tags: Corn, Corn Futures Prices, Prices Jump
Although the trade was expecting a slight increase, USDA's January supply and demand report (WASDE) trimmed the size of the 2013 corn crop by 64 million bushels to 13.925 billion. They increased the number of acres harvested by 0.5 million, ...
Tags: Hog, Hog Outlook, Hog Prices
Both slaughter steer prices and beef carcass cutout values set new record highs this week. Through Thursday, the 5-area average price for slaughter steers sold on a live weight basis was $139.54/cwt, up $2.08 from a week ago and up $13.18 ...
Soybeans were mixed ahead of Friday's USDA numbers. USDA's expected to report a big crop Friday, but that may be moderated by an increase in their export estimate, with the reports out at Noon Eastern/11 AM Central. China bought more U.S. ...
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The forecasts for total red meat and poultry production for both 2013 and 2014 are lowered from December. For 2013, beef production is raised, but pork, broiler, and turkey production are reduced. The forecast for 2014 is reduced as lower ...
Tags: Hog, USDA Wasde, US Hog Prices
Laboratory tests on Washington State's exotic shellfish export, the geoduck clam, have found no evidence of unsafe or excessive levels of arsenic, rebutting claims made by Chinese food safety authorities that followed?a sudden ban placed on ...
Animal ag and soybeans have a relationship that goes back generations. That relationship will continue in 2014 as the soy checkoff supports some innovative work of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) and the USA Poultry and Egg Export ...
Tags: Meat-Export, Soybean-Meal Demand, Checkoff