United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Ann Veneman has requested $72 billion from the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund the department's ongoing programs in fiscal 2002.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a correction to the final rule on "Retained Water in Raw Meat and Poultry Products; Poultry Chilling Requirements."
The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require that testing methods be put in place before new biotech crops are released into the marketplace.
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
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