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A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1...

The battle for the jaded palates of pub snack enthusiasts has entered a new phase with the latest launch from Welsh manufacturer Real Crisps. Sour Cream &Cotswold Wild Garlic joins the premium Real Chips range, available at the end of September in...

Walkers Snacks is shunning television in favour of a sampling and direct mail campaign that will target health professionals, as well as consumers, for the £3m launch of its new SunBites brand. The wholegrain crisps will be launched on September 17. ...

The U.S.'s largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG), said it will change the recipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands over the next year to remove diacetyl, a flavoring chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant wor...

McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) said Tuesday same-store sales at its hamburger outlets in Japan hit a monthly record in August.Sales in August rose 11.3 pct from a year before to 46,394 million yen, eclipsing the previous record of 43,047 million yen s...

La papa, una hortaliza clave en la dieta de los argentinos, aumentó un 50% en las últimas semanas y ya preocupa al Gobierno, que decidió incentivar la importación para frenar el alza. A tal punto llegó la preocupación que se decidió crear un registro ...

De Heer is op 1 juni dit jaar aangetreden bij Avebe en is op 1 augustus de vorige bestuursvoorzitter Okke Koo opgevolgd. Raad van Commissaris voorzitter Hans Hoekman zegt dat er geen verschil van mening is over de koers van Avebe. “De beslissing van ...

Supermarket operator Kroger Co. said it recalled Kroger brand Mustard and Southern-Style potato salad with a "best if used by"date of Sept. 5 from sale in its stores because it may contain E. coli O157:H7. To date, no illnesses have been repo...

Cambodia's Royal Group Co. Ltd. published a statement here on Saturday announcing that it will form a joint venture with Malaysian firms to bring the fast-food giant the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into the kingdom. This marks the first entry of a maj...

Investeringsgroep LME heeft zijn belang in industriëel concern Stork van ruim 32 procent vergroot tot  43,3 procent. Dat maakte de groep bekend.   Met de aankoop van vrijdag wil LME een voorgenomen overname van Stork door de Britse durfkapitalist Cando...

Walkers is launching its first ever wholegrain snack, Sunbites. Targeting consumer looking for ‘better for you’ products, Sunbites are made with whole wheat, oats and corn. Each bag contains around a third of the suggested daily amount of wholegrains...

Novozymes launches Acrylaway (asparaginase) to reduce acrylamide which is formed when starchy foods are baked, fried or toasted at high temperatures. Acrylamide is under suspicion of causing cancer.

China is now accusing the United States of shipping contaminated products there. It's the latest round in the battle over unsafe products. China's safety chief says tests found "poisonous and dangerous substances"in almost 22 tons of frozen...

The world’s largest producer of French fries, McCain Foods works to convince the public and food preparers that its trans fat free products are even better than ever.   When McCain Foods made the decision to go totally transfat free by the end of this...

First place at the McCain Champion Grower competition came as a bit of a shock for this year’s winners. “I guess we’re certainly surprised,” said Dan Sawatzky from Sawatzky Enterprises of Mac-Gregor, named 2007 Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Foo...

Root vegetables seem to be coming out of a long hiatus and anyone who has tasted roasted roots like parsnips, beets, carrots and rutubaga will no doubt cheer. "When I was growing up, before we got all this imported produce coming into the countr...

Louisville, Ky.-based Kentucky Fried Chicken's $2.99 Deals was recently introduced. The marketing campaign is focussed around the idea that the smell of KFC in American offices will lure customers into the chain. To carry out the "scent-focused&...

Spuds are no longer the top agricultural commodity in Idaho as measured by annual cash receipts. Potatoes yielded that position to the dairy industry several years ago. But spuds are still a huge part of Idaho's agricultural economy, according to a Un...