The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and Messe Dusseldorf North America (MDNA) announced they will organize a US Pavilion at FoodPex 2015, an international trade fair for the food processing and packaging industries.
The organic industry continues to show rapid growth both domestically and globally with 19,474 certified organic operations in the US and a total of 27,814 certified organic operations around the world, according to USDA.
Organic foods were a big draw for US consumers in 2014 as sales of organic products jumped up 11 percent to $39 billion, a record for the industry, according to the annual Organic Trade Association (OTA) survey.
Marking the company’s 20th anniversary and beginning if its iconic Belgian-style wheat brew, the Blue Moon Brewing Company announced it will honor the milestone by building another brewery.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted Sunday to close the 2015-2016 Pacific sardine fishing season beginning July 1 in order to save the industry after observing rapid population decline.
The owner and a top executive of Quality Egg LLC were sentenced Monday in federal district court in Iowa for their roles in a 2010 salmonella outbreak stemming from adulterated eggs that sickened consumers nationwide.
Power and automation technology group ABB has opened a new local service office near Lake Charles, Louisiana to provide service and support for the company’s automation and power portfolio, instrumentation, analytical products, low voltage drives, and power systems and products.
In an effort to advance produce production and consumption, members of the produce industry will get the opportunity to interact with technologies from around the world at the second annual Produce Marketing Association’s Tech Knowledge Symposium held in Monterey, CA on May 11-13.
A commercial turkey farm of 310,000 birds in Meeker County, MN, an operation of the Jennie-O Turkey Store, has tested positive for the deadly strain of avian influenza making it the ninth commercial turkey farm struck with the disease in the state, according to the Associated Press.
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