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FDA issues final guidance for salt substitute in labeling

January 27, 2021

The FDA has issued a final guidance, Use of an Alternate Name for Potassium Chloride in Food Labeling, to advise food manufacturers of its intent to exercise enforcement discretion for the name "potassium salt" in the ingredient statement on food labels as an alternative to "potassium chloride" to better inform consumers that it is a salt substitute.

Plant Openings

Plant Openings & Expansions: February 2021

January 27, 2021

Plant openings and expansions in food and beverage manufacturing for February 2021.

People & Industry News

People and Industry News: February 2021

January 27, 2021

People and industry news in food and beverage manufacturing for February 2021.

PepsiCo, Beyond Meat establish The PLANeT Partnership

Joint venture to introduce new plant-based protein offerings

Sharon Spielman

January 26, 2021

PepsiCo, Inc., and Beyond Meat, Inc., have announced they will form The PLANeT Partnership, LLC (TPP)—a joint venture to develop, produce and market snack and beverage products made from plant-based protein.

Manufacturing News

Decreasing antibiotic use in food animals proves difficult to track

The UK has made progress with monitoring techniques, but tracking antibiotic use in the U.S. is problematic

Wayne Labs

January 26, 2021

Tracking antibiotic use in food animals is difficult in the United States, as no one agency records that data.

Hungry Planet partners with Post Holdings

Plant-based meat company meets consumer packaged goods holding company

Sharon Spielman

January 25, 2021

Hungry Planet Inc., a plant-based meat company, has announced a partnership with Post Holdings, Inc., a consumer packaged goods holding company.

Construction

Karis Cold Storage announces new facility in Denver

Facility will be Denver's first cold storage speculative development

January 25, 2021

Denver’s first cold storage speculative development is currently under construction. 76 Freeze, a 247,032-square-foot state-of-the-art, multi-temperature facility, is scheduled for completion in October 2021. Located at 189 Bromley Business Parkway in Brighton, Colorado, the brand-new facility situated on 17 acres is strategically positioned to service Colorado’s Front Range and Rocky Mountain regions. Approximately 166,000 square feet of space in the multi-user facility has been preleased to a single tenant.

PepsiCo to reduce GHG emissions by 40% by 2030

Net-zero emissions pledged by 2040, a decade ahead of Paris Agreement

Sharon Spielman

January 22, 2021

PepsiCo, Inc. plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030.

FDA, CFSAN offers News for Educators

January 21, 2021

News for Educators available from FDA, CFSAN

Lancaster Foods halts butternut squash production

FDA, company investigating possible health risk. No illnesses reported.

Sharon Spielman

January 20, 2021

Lancaster Foods LLC has temporarily halted production of its processed butternut squash items. This break in production follows a voluntary product recall of items because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes.

On Demand Kelley Rodriguez, Editor in Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, will be joined in this 60-minute webinar by industry experts to help unpack the latest research.

On Demand Driven by climate goals, business risk, client interest, and resilience considerations, food and beverage companies are increasingly turning their attention to decarbonizing their production processes.