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Tasty Baking Company has started construction of a 345,000-sq.-ft. building on 25 acres at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Commerce Center.

Thirteen workers were killed and more than 60 seriously injured in a catastrophic dust explosion at Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, GA on February 7, 2008.

Campbell Soup Company completed the sale of its Godiva Chocolatier business to Yildiz Holding A.S. for $850 million.

Flowers Foods plans to construct a 200,000-sq.-ft. bakery located in Bardstown, KY. 

Barilla’s new pasta plant in Avon, NY won Food Engineering’s Plant of the Year award and was honored at FE’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo 2008 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Food Safety and Inspection Service, which regulates meat, poultry and egg products, faces resource limitations that make it more difficult for the agency to ensure the safety of the food supply, according to a report by OMB Watch, a non-profit advocacy group that monitors the federal Office of Management and Budget.

ConAgra Foods, Inc. acquired Kennewick, WA-based Watts Brothers, a privately held vegetable processing and agricultural company, to further grow and strengthen its core potato business operating under the Lamb Weston brand. Lamb Weston has annual sales of approximately $2 billion.