Hershey Foods has chosen a Kraft Foods' Nabisco executive to head the world's largest candy maker, the third Nabisco executive to be chosen to lead a major consumer-products company this year.

Admix, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Boston Shearpump line of sanitary, high intensity in-line mixers and shearpumps from Copek Industrial Products.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based The Haskell Co. has been selected as design-builder of a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Effingham, Ill. for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

Flow International Corp. (Kent, Wash.) announced in June that Odwalla, Inc. has committed to large-scale use of Flow's Fresher Under Pressure UHP (ultra-high pressure) technology to replace thermal treatment for a large segment of its "super-premium" fruit and vegetable juices.

Although consumer spending in food courts declined by three percent last year, hot dog sales in those locales increased by nearly eight percent for the same period.

Data for young chickens indicate that a revised design of the Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) HACCP-based Inspection Models Project is showing improvements in food safety and non-food safety defects (also known as "other consumer protections. OCPs")

The International Association of Food Industry Suppliers has released its 2000 edition of the Capital Equipment & Supplies Study, an annual research study intended to provide insights into processor IAFIS releases 2000 Capital Equipment & Supplies Study

Processor Seaboard Farms says it will share with the pork industry its rights to a cold brine pasteurization system that reduces bacteria counts and improves the food safety attributes for moisture-enhanced pork.

Greif Bros. Corporation, the world leader in industrial packaging products and services, announces that its multiwall bag manufacturing plant in Rosemount, Minn., has received The American Institute of Baking's (AIB) Certificate of Achievement for its food safety and hygiene practices.AIB awards a Certificate of Achievement after companies pass a stringent management and GMP audit.

Both the U.S. House and Senate HAVE approved a measure that would raise the budgeted amount for humane slaughter enforcement by $3 million.