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Started six years ago by Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Food Safety and Inspection Agency (CFIA), and adopted by PAC (The Packaging Association of Canada, www.pac.ca), a set of standards was developed to support the needs of HACCP for packaging in the food and beverage industry. 

There’s no question President-elect Barack Obama has a full plate of urgent problems as he goes about putting together his administration, but members of Congress, consumer advocates and industry officials agree that food safety issues deserve early attention.

Muhtar Kent, president and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company, and Jeffrey P. Ansell, CEO, Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, were elected to the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s board of directors. 

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) company opened a new 500,000-sq.-ft. cocoa processing facility in Hazleton, PA.

FDA has finally addressed the issue of melamine in food and issued a ruling on how much is too much.

John Urbanski, vice president of technical sales and services at Cargill Cocoa Chocolate, received the Stroud Jordan Award from the American Association of Candy Technologists (AACT) for his outstanding contributions to the field of confectionery technology.

Stellar completed construction of United States Cold Storage’s phase-three expansion to its Tulare-North distribution center located in Tulare, CA.

In recent years, California has had difficulties keeping up with electrical energy demand.