A big step in terms of food safety and foodborne illness prevention, FDA announced Thursday it has finalized two of seven major rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Agricultural producers are celebrating a federal judge's ruling that has blocked, at least temporarily, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of the Waters of the U.S. regulation, which would give the federal government new power to regulate streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act.
Dutch brewing company Heineken has purchased a 50 percent stake in the California-based Lagunitas Brewing Company to capitalize on the growing American craft beer movement.
In an effort to meet consumers’ changing expectations and preferences, McDonald’s said Wednesday it will fully transition to using only cage-free eggs at all of its nearly 16,000 restaurants in the US and Canada over the next decade.
Shelf-stable drinking yogurt has exploded in China since its debut in 2010, growing at a rate that has it accounting for 13 percent of the country’s total yogurt category in 2014.
Staying ahead of the holiday season, McCormick & Company, Inc. is introducing a new non-GMO labeled Vanilla Extract and says it plans to have all products be 80 percent organic and free of genetically modified organisms by 2016.
A California produce company has issued a recall for its cucumbers after CDC linked its products to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections.
KitKat, a brand of Swiss food and beverage giant Nestlé, will be manufactured using only sustainable sourced cocoa beginning in the first quarter of 2016, the brand announced this week.
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