A new law gives USDA two years to develop a national GMO labeling standard. While there are likely a number of ways companies will be able to maintain compliance, a QR code shouldn’t be one of them.
Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries has voluntarily recalled select ice cream products manufactured at its Sylacauga, AL plant after discovering pieces of chocolate chip cookie dough provided by a third-party supplier could potentially be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
Food processing equipment supplier JBT Corporation announced this week it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the assets of Cooling and Applied Technologies (C.A.T.), Inc. for $90 million.
Agriculture specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) found live Khapra Beetle larvae and a number of dead adult beetles comingled within a shipment of rice from Saudi Arabia in Philadelphia earlier this month.
Despite the rising concern around sugar and a sluggish global economy, a new study suggests the market for 100 percent juice is headed in the right direction.
