Jeremy Gerrard

Pennsylvania-based candy company Hershey said it will cut about 300 jobs by the end of 2015.

California poultry producer Foster Farms says suspended five employees this week after an animal rights group released undercover footage of chickens being abused.

Heinz has issued an apology after a promotional QR code scanned from the back of one of its ketchup bottles linked to a porn website.

BRC Global Standards will publish the fifth issue of its Global Standard for Packaging and Packing Materials on July 1.

Morton Salt, Inc. announced this week it has signed a lease agreement to relocate from its Chicago headquarters to the new River Point tower under construction in the West Loop neighborhood.

Arkansas-based Pinnacle Foods Group, LLC has issued a recall for approximately 668,316 pounds of poultry products due to misbranding because the product contains monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is not declared on the label, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Poultry producer Foster Farms has launched a comprehensive investigation into its Fresno, CA facilities after an animal rights group published an online video depicted workers ripping out feathers of live birds, throwing birds and slamming chickens into metal shackles.

The Coca-Cola Company and Monster Beverage Corporation have closed on the previously announced agreement which gives Coca-Cola a minority ownership in the popular energy drink company.

Nestlé India says the company will destroy its popular MAGGI Noodles products worth about $50 million it removed from shelves this month after India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority enacted a sales ban on the products for unsafe levels of lead.

Taking another step toward removing trans fats in food, FDA said Tuesday it has determined partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat in processed foods, are not “generally recognized as safe” or GRAS for use in human food.