The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will increase Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) surveillance in the U.S. in the wake of September's terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York City's World Trade Center.

A major reorganization of Rohm and Haas' adhesives business unit, along with a complete restructuring of all functional areas, has occurred over the past months.

A&B Process Systems announces the appointment of Steve Deringer to Director of Engineering.

With varying degrees of enthusiasm, food processing companies and trade groups are applauding the national organic foods standards that go into effect this month, three years after the USDA first proposed rules to implement the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990.

ADM Cocoa Singapore has installed a new, fully-automated silo storage facility for cocoa beans making Singapore one of the most advanced cocoa processing plants in the world.

The Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA) and the Interface for Distributed Automation (IDA) Group have joined with the Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance (IAONA) to promote the Ethernet/IP networking protocol.

A new poll suggests that American men are much more likely than women to eat genetically modified foods (GMOs) and more likely than women to feed those foods to their children.

Based on feedback from consumers, health professionals and industry representatives, the Food and Drug Administration has made improvements to its website, www.fda.gov, to provide users with quicker and easier access to information.

Researchers at Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University believe that the true gold in cheese plants could be pure milk serum proteins that are separated from liquid milk before it is used to make cheese.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has rejected a lawsuit filed by Ohio Secretary of Agriculture Fred Dailey, which claimed parts of the federal meat and poultry statutes are unconstitutional.