The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed civil complaints in US District Court Wednesday against Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and Mondelez Global LLC, charging the companies with manipulation and attempted manipulation of the prices of cash wheat and wheat futures which led to over $5.4 million in profits.
The show floor for the co-located PROCESS EXPO, International Dairy Show and InterBev Process has exceeded 300,000 net square feet, and continues to grow, according to organizers the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA), the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and NürnbergMesse.
The North American Meat Institute Foundation (NAMIF) is offering a three-day training course covering the fundamentals of meat specifications on June 2-4 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) is advocating for better scientific evidence to be the foundation of new nutrition policies after it says a review of the science used by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee revealed more than 70 percent of the recommendations were not based on reviews of USDA’s Nutritional Evidence Library (NEL).
Dairy organizations from the U.S. have collaborated with dairy groups from Australia and New Zealand to issue a joint letter to their respective trade and agricultural officials that requests an “ambitious, comprehensive and commercially meaningful” resolution in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).
As the world prepares to the sustainability of our natural resources on world water day Sunday, a new report from the United Nations suggests there is an urgent need to better manage the world’s water supply or the planet could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in just 15 years.