Potato News from the Americas

The global market for organic food & drink is recovering from the financial crisis. After several years of double-digit growth, the market expanded by just 5 percent in 2009.

Gary Linkletter has been elected chair of the P.E.I. Potato Board.

Potential end users who learn about U.S. dehydrated potatoes at trade shows and seminars and who decide to incorporate dehy into a product don’t have to go it alone.

Tropical Foods, a food manufacturer that specializes in raw and roasted nuts, dried fruit and snack mixes, is launching Garden Chips just in time for the New Year.

A small group of scientists in white lab coats — some bearing the Pepsi logo — wander through their laboratory, describing the state-of-the-art equipment.

In 2010, favorable planting conditions allowed an early start to the cropping season in New Brunswick.

'Focus on Potato' has published its latest webcast, titled: “Black Dot Root Rot of Potato'

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division today said that approximately 50 percent of its product portfolio will be made with all natural ingredients, including three of its biggest brands, Lay's® potato chips, Tostitos® tortilla chips and SunChips® multigrain snacks.

McCain Foods has joined the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) in its pledge to reduce obesity, especially among children aged 6 to 11, by 2015.

Presentación en PowerPoint de Andrés Arroyo Terán (Morera Ecuador S.A) en la I Expo Congreso Nacional de Papa, Expopapa (www.expopapa.com), realizada entre el 25-27 de noviembre de 2010 en la ciudad de Ibarra, Ecuador.

California restaurants must end trans fat use by Jan. 1.

A Brandon man is accused of setting more than two dozen fires at the McCain potato processing plant near Carberry.

The National Restaurant Association’s “What’s Hot” survey of more than 1,500 professional chefs—members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF)—reveals that local and hyper-local sourcing, healthy children’s meals, sustainable seafood, and gluten-free cuisine will be among the hottest trends on restaurant menus in 2011.

The Food Channel has released our 2011 Trends Forecast – the Top Ten Trends we see for the coming year, and the top ten foods to watch.

If you thought 2010 was a year of challenges, hang on to your hat.

By a vote of 215 to 144 today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food Safety Modernization Act, enacting large-scale changes to the nation’s food safety system.