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General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 16,2010

Cargill Grain Facility Achieves Worker Safety Milestone

"This is quite an accomplishment and represents that our engaged workforce sees safety as a key part of our success," said John Culmer, general manager, Houston, Cargill Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain North America.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 15,2010

Fuerst Day Lawson Acquires Regency Mowbray

The acquisition will add to the strength of FDL’s procurement and global sourcing, making it a force to be reckoned with in the food ingredients world, providing new complete solutions to the end food manufacturer.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 15,2010

West African Enjoying Organic Export Drive – FAO

The market for organic and fair-trade products in developed countries is expected to grow by about five to ten percent per year over the next three years, offering new opportunities for smallholder farmers in poor countries.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

FSA Board Agrees Single Front-of-Pack Label Plan

The Board's recommendation clearly signals that the Agency does not support FOP labels using only % GDAs, but that % GDAs should be combined with either traffic light colours or text, and should ideally have all three elements.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

Nine Tetra Pak Factories Honored for Manufacturing Excellence

Since they began in 1964 the JPIM Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) awards have become among the most prestigious in the manufacturing industry. The awards recognise plants which fulfil the demanding requirements of the JIPM’s continuous improvement programme.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

CIAA Welcomes Constructive Cross-Stakeholder Debate on Portions

CIAA welcomes the large degree of convergence that, in addition to mandatory nutrition labelling per 100g/ml back-of-pack, panellists agreed some front-of-pack information was useful for consumers in providing simple, at-a-glance information on food and drink products.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

Scarcity of Phosphorus Threat to Global Food Production

Phosphorous is extracted from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource that is used almost exclusively in agriculture. Two thirds of the world’s resources are in China, Morocco, and Western Sahara.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

Kalsec Expands Chinese Presence

This new office reflects Kalsec’s commitment to support customers locally and deliver spice & herb extracts, natural colours and natural antioxidants to food and beverage manufacturers in China.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

ARS Sends Third Seed Shipment to Norway Seed Vault

ARS' goal, over the next 10 to 15 years, is have the majority of the system's 511,000 collections stored in the vault, which is administered by Norway's Nordic Genetic Resources Center together with the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 12,2010

Delhaize Group Launches New Tender Offer for Shares of its Greek Subsidiary Alfa Beta Vassilopoulos

The proposed tender price of EUR 35.73 equals the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of the last 6 months and represents a premium of EUR 1.73 above the last tender price of EUR 34 offered in 2009.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

Amcor Rigid Plastics is New Name for Former Amcor PET Packaging Business

The new corporate identity reflects a significant expansion of Amcor’s product offering and reaffirms the company’s commitment to the global packaging industry.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

Nordzucker to Speed Up Cost Cutting, Sells Serbian Business

In addition to measures affecting production, procurement, and sales & marketing, this also includes the phased downsizing of the workforce across the Group by around 300 by 2014/2015.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

Eight in Ten Food and Grocery Companies Expect to Increase Training and Development Budget by 2020 – IGD

Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury's and president of the IGD will use his speech at the IGD Food & Grocery Industry Skills & Employment Summit to announce the creation of the UK's first supermarket bakery college.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

Indena’s Commitment for Environmental Initiatives Confirmed

ISO14001 is a certification of compliance to standards for environmental management systems that applies to business. The aim of the certification is to induce compliance to certain standards in order to reduce the environmental footprint by decreasing pollution and waste.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The analysis combines ecological data with a global economic commodity and trade model to project the effects of US maize ethanol production on carbon dioxide emissions resulting from land-use changes in 18 regions across the globe.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 11,2010

Viterra to Acquire Dakota Growers Pasta Company

The transaction represents a total enterprise value of USD$240 million, which includes equity value and anticipated net cash/debt at closing, subject to certain adjustments for transaction costs and other closing adjustments.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Discovery of Fat Taste Could Hold the Key to Reducing Obesity

Dr. Keast: “We know that the human tongue can detect five tastes – sweet, salt, sour, bitter and umami (a taste for identifying protein rich foods). Through our study we can conclude that humans have a sixth taste - fat.”

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Danish Companies to Research Potential for Overlooked Enzyme Sources

Danisco has, as part of a larger project group, been granted DKK 24 million from The Danish Council for Strategic Research to look into the nature of the enzymes derived from snakes, spiders and carnivorous plants.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Monsanto to Break Ground on New Breeding Station in Mississippi

The site will complement Monsanto's global breeding program and become part of a network of more than 50 corn breeding locations around the world. Southern farmers also will benefit from the genetic diversity of Monsanto's global germplasm pool.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Private Label Facing New Challenges and Opportunities

The growing importance of private label will be examined from different perspectives by seminar speakers at PLMA’s 2010 ‘World of Private Label” Trade Show.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Most Food & Entertainment Companies Get Failing Grade for Policies on Marketing Food to Children – CSPI

CSPI's highest grade, a B+, went to Mars, Inc., though the group emphasized that the grade is not for the foods Mars sells, but rather for its policy on marketing to children.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 10,2010

Morinaga Milk Receives No Objection GRAS for Bifidobacterium Longum BB536

BB536 has been used by Morinaga in our own food products with great success for more than 30 years and has been sold as a raw material to clients overseas in more than 30 countries for use in food and supplements.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 09,2010

Tetra Pak Net Sales Grow to €8.95 billion in 2009

Stronger-than-expected growth in fourth quarter and strong demand in some emerging markets balance declining sales in regions affected by downturn.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 09,2010

Food Flavoring Recall Highlights Need for Better Tracking in U.S. Food Supply Chain

Better tracking using the latest technology such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), enables quicker determination of the source of contamination before these products hit store shelves.

General Company & Ingredient Information Mar 09,2010

Unhealthy Foods Become Less Popular with Increasing Costs

Over the 20-year period, a 10-percent increase in price was associated with a 7-percent decrease in the amount of calories consumed from soda and a 12-percent decrease in the amount of calories consumed from pizza.