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McDonald’s Corp. officials said the company’s plan to hire 50,000 people in one day presents it with an opportunity to show that a “McJob” isn’t a dead end but rather the start of a career.

Fair Trade, organic, sustainable and eco-friendly are making their way on to package labels across all categories, but how do consumers actually view these products?

Given that world potato production is about 320 million tons per year (20 million tons per year in the United States) and world tomato production is about 120 million tons per year (13 million tons per year in the U.S.), late blight is a major problem worldwide even today.

So you don’t quite feel up to struggling through all 183 pages of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed menu-labeling regulation?

Stamppot to go, een innovatief eetconcept uit 2009, houdt op te bestaan. Het stamppotconcept is geen succes geworden.

McDonald’s wil in de Verenigde Staten op 19 april 50.000 nieuwe personeelsleden in dienst nemen, meldde het concern gisteren.

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND - News) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG - News) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge the Pringles business ("Pringles") into Diamond Foods in a transaction valued at $2....

USA Today offers a view of the consumer perception of the brand Pringles, just sold by Procter and Gamble to Diamond foods for 1,5 billion: Pringles is broken, but fixable.

La compañía Procter &Gamble vendió la división Pringles a Diamond Foods por 2.350 millones de dólares. Dicho importe comprende 1.500 millones en acciones de Diamond y el compromiso de liquidar una deuda de 850 millones de Pringles. Según los térm...

Het Deense parlement heeft een heffing goedgekeurd op verzadigd vet in bepaalde levensmiddelen.

Neiker-Tecnalia (the Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development) is realising a project for obtaining high quality starch in potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum) using new molecular and genetic tools.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued two proposed regulations regarding calorie labeling on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, retail food establishments, and vending machines.

In Britain, each person eats 207lb of this versatile vegetable every year and surveys suggest two-thirds of us believe in the case of the jacket spud at least that it qualifies as one of our recommended 'five portions of fruit and veg a day'.

Cargill today completed its acquisition of Royal Nedalco's alcohol business from its parent company Royal Cosun, including its production sites in the Netherlands and the UK.

Voor de Haagse Hogeschool staat deze week een tijdelijke patatkraam. De opbrengst van de frietjes, broodjes, en drankjes gaat naar het Rode Kruis om de slachtoffers van de tsunami en aardbeving in Japan te helpen.

There may be political turmoil in the Middle East but Scottish seed potato exports to that part of the world have just risen to new heights.

A highlight from this report: UK exports of fresh potatoes to Holland in January were 11 times higher than the 3 year average

KFC opened its first unit in Zambia last week. The restaurant is located in Lusaka and the opening was marked by First Lady Thandiwe Banda.