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Remember the attention last month over McDonald's using the covers of Seminole County elementary school report cards to pitch Happy Meals to kids? The company defended the practice, saying it was simply giving rewards to students who got good grades by...

Wayne Watson, from Centennial, Colorado, is thought to be the only consumer of popcorn to have developed the rare lung condition bronchiolitis obliterans (popcorn lung).   Watson's lungs have been damaged by the flavour chemical diacetyl in the artif...

Westchester County’s ban on the use of cooking oils that contain trans-fat is now in effect for restaurants, school cafeterias and other licensed food service establishments. Starting January 15, 2007, Health Department inspectors will check for trans...

Procter &Gamble Co. might spin off, instead of sell, its Folgers coffee business.   Media reports, cited unidentified sources, said the Cincinnati-based company, which has said it is exploring sales of slower-growing brands, was interested in a sp...

Workers at North American Foods' dehydrated potato flake processing plant have been told that the operation will be closed March 15.The company, previously RDO Foods Co., employs about 125 people at the plant.Officials at the R.D. Offutt Co. corporate...

On January 24th, 2008 eighty years of potato chip manufacturing
on Chicago's south side will come to a close with the public
auction sale of equipment from Jays Foods manufacturing headquarters
on East 99th Street.

ConAgra Foods Inc. won't close three production plants that had been slated for shutdown in a multiyear reorganization effort, signaling a shift in emphasis from cutting costs to growing sales. "We've had good success with sales of new products, a...

The Heinz Global Innovation and Quality Center, which opened about two years ago, has significantly bolstered the research and development capabilities of Heinz, one of the world's largest food companies. Like other big food industry players, Heinz ha...

Cargill today reported net earnings of $954 million for the 2008 second quarter ended Nov. 30, up 44 percent from $662 million in the same period a year ago. In the first six months, the company earned $1.87 billion, a 61 percent increase from $1.16 b...

Manufacturers seeking networked motor control solutions for wash-down environments now have several options from Rockwell Automation. The Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 40 AC drive and the ArmorStart product lines have packaging options that are now rated by ...

Following the lead of New York City and Brookline, health regulators in Boston last night took the first step toward banning artery-clogging trans fat from French fries, doughnuts, and other food sold in restaurants and corner stores. The Boston Publ...

Shares of McDonald's Corp fell as much as 8 percent on Friday, as a survey of franchisees showed December same-store sales grew at the lowest level in the six-year history of the poll. The survey of 31 domestic franchisees, representing 195 restauran...

About half of U.S. consumers consider at least one sustainability factor in selecting consumer packaged goods items and choosing where to shop for those products, a new Information Resources Inc. survey reveals. Respondents were presented with sustaina...

Boise-based J.R. Simplot Co. has purchased H &R Ag Inc., a Pasco-based agriculture supplier and retail business. No financial details of Monday's deal were disclosed. But Bill Whitacre, president of the Simplot AgriBusiness Group, said the acquisi...

Using the asparaginase enzyme to treat French fries could reduce the formation of acrylamide by 60 per cent, a joint Chilean-Danish study has reported. The study, published on-line in the journal Food Chemistry, weighs into the hot topic of acrylamide ...

With the possible sale of Wendy's International dragging into the new year, questions are being raised about the direction of the Dublin-based burger chain. Some industry analysts have been hammering Wendy's on a number of fronts, pointing to "lac...

Key Technology (KTEC) was founded 60 years ago as a maker of vegetable processing equipment. In the meantime,  Key has morphed into a global supplier to the food industry. It melds electro-optical automated inspection and sorting systems with processi...

On January 24, 2008 Rabin is organizing an auction of production lines of bankrupt Jays Foods in Chicago. The auction includes 4 potato chips processing lines and 18 Hayssen Ishida packaging machines and much more.   Background:   On January 24th, 200...