Hormel Foods Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the natural and organic prepared meats producer Applegate Farms, LLC for $775 million.
Boasting a commitment to consumer-centric innovations, chocolate manufacturer The Hershey Company will debut a new line of products and innovations this week at the National Confectioners Association’s annual Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago.
Organic food processing company SunOpta Inc.’s Hope, Minnesota facility has become the first food manufacturing facility in the US to receive USDA Process Verified Program (PVP) verification for Non-Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)/Non-Genetically Engineered (GE) products.
Post Holdings, Inc. announced Friday the company plans to consolidate its Post Foods and MOM Brands cereal businesses into one group that will be headquartered out of Lakeville, Minnesota—the existing MOM Brands facilities.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed it found the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza in a backyard mixed-poultry flock in Whitley County, Indiana. The flu strain is different from the HPAI H5N2 virus that has been detected in multiple states throughout the Mississippi flyway. The H5N8 strain had previously only been confirmed in the Pacific flyway.
This week, May 10-16, marks Food Allergy Awareness Week, a time to focus public awareness on food allergy, a condition that affects an estimated 5 percent of children and 4 percent of adults in the US.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health’s Temporary Workers Group Wednesday in Washington D.C.
As part of its second quarter earnings release, Whole Foods Market announced its plans to open a new chain of stores targeting millennial shoppers and offering lower prices as competition over natural and organic products from other chains increases.