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Photo Of The Day: Kraft's Fight Hunger Bowl
January 10, 2011 10:18 am | Comments(AP) — In this photograph taken by AP Images for Kraft, Football legend Joe Montana joins Kraft Foods’ President Tony Vernon and players from Boston College and University of Nevada for the coin toss of the inaugural Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on January 9, 2011 in San Francisco.
Pallet Debate Heats Up
January 10, 2011 10:16 am | by iGPS: | CommentsWASHINGTON, DC (PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The following was issued today by the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association: With less than a month left to his 30-year career in the U.S. Senate, Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) took the time to fire off a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg urging the agency to notify "food manufacturers, transporters and retailers inspected by the FDA that plastic pallets containing decaBDE are inappropriate for use in scenarios that may bring decabromine into contact with food.
What Matters Most To Food Consumers
January 10, 2011 10:15 am | CommentsKANSAS CITY, Mo. (CFI) — A document providing insight into what influences the segment of society most capable of changing consumer attitudes toward today’s food system is being made available by the Center for Food Integrity (CFI). Messages that Matter is based on CFI’s 2010 Consumer Trust in the Food System research.
New Tests Detect Salmonella, E. Coli Faster
January 10, 2011 3:11 am | CommentsDENVER (AP) — Food safety scientists are looking for faster ways to detect salmonella, E. coli, listeria and other pathogens within hours or minutes instead of days. The goal is to catch contaminated food before it leaves a processing facility, thereby averting costly recalls. It also could mean a longer shelf life for products, if companies don't have to wait as long for tests to show that food is safe before shipping it.
DuPont To Purchase Danisco For $5.8B
January 10, 2011 3:10 am | CommentsWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — DuPont is buying Danish food ingredients maker Danisco A/S for $5.8 billion as it looks to broaden its food and biofuels operations. The acquisition also includes the assumption of $500 million in debt. Danisco, which is already a joint venture partner with DuPont in the development of cellulosic ethanol technology, said Monday that it will recommend shareholders accept the deal.
Professional Tasters Get Paid To Sniff Out Food
January 10, 2011 3:09 am | CommentsST. LOUIS (AP) — Their environment is totally controlled. No windows face the outside world. The air is pressurized to keep smells out, and the lights cast an even, featureless glow. The room suffers no art or motivational posters, no music, no television chatter. The only thing that matters here is the food.
Busch Heir's Once-Charmed Life Takes Tragic Turn
January 10, 2011 3:07 am | CommentsST. LOUIS (AP) — Family lore says the first liquid to touch August Busch IV's lips was beer from the Anheuser-Busch brewery. As a child, Busch accompanied his father to business meetings at the brewery's headquarters. As a young man, he made his mark creating ads for the product that would dominate his life: Budweiser beer.
Chicago Company Expands Beef Recall
January 10, 2011 3:05 am | CommentsCHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago company has expanded a recall to include an additional 580 pounds of beef patties because of possible E. coli contamination. The Illinois Department of Agriculture said Friday that Columbus Meat took the action after state inspectors discovered the same batch of beef was used to produce patties on more than one day.
Photo Of The Day: Dioxin-Tainted Meat & Eggs Shake Germany
January 10, 2011 3:04 am | Comments(AP) — People pass a market stall with eggs at a farmers market in Berlin on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. German authorities have stopped more than 4,700 farms from selling their meat and eggs as a precautionary measure against a growing scandal over animal feed contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals that is also affecting exports.
Tastykakes Faces Tough Road, May Sell
January 7, 2011 2:59 am | CommentsPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pressured by declining sales and the failure to produce projected savings from a new production facility, the maker of Tastykakes said Wednesday it is looking at several options, including a merger or sale. Tasty Baking Co. president and chief executive Charles Pizzi said in a statement that "unanticipated operational challenges" related to its new bakery in Philadelphia's Navy Yard had lowered projected savings for the fourth quarter of 2010 by $3 million to $10 million.
Four Loko Turned Into Ethanol In Va.
January 7, 2011 2:56 am | CommentsRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Truckloads of Four Loko and other alcohol-laced energy drinks are being recycled into ethanol and other products after federal authorities told manufacturers the beverages were dangerous and caused users to become "wide-awake drunk." Wholesalers from Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and other East Coast states started sending cases of the high-alcohol, caffeinated malt beverages to MXI Environmental Services in Virginia after the U.
Photo Of The Day: Tomatoes vs. Frost
January 5, 2011 4:04 am | Comments(AP) — In this Dec. 30, 2010 photo, tomatoes in different stages of ripeness are seen in the fields at Martha's U-Pick Vegetable Stand near Homestead, Fla. The plants show damage from recent cold weather. Last January, a nearby farmer, Sam Accursio lost nearly all of his pickling cucumber crop at his Homestead farm during an unusual cold snap.
'Supergrain' Provides Boon To Bolivians
January 5, 2011 3:52 am | CommentsCARACOLLO, Bolivia (AP) — It's as inhospitable as climates come for crop cultivation, the dry and rocky soils of Bolivia's semiarid altiplain. Miguel Choque can see his breath as surveys his fields of quinoa, the Andean "supergrain." In late March or April, the flowering plants will paint the rugged landscape yellow, green and red.
UK Introduces New Beer Size
January 5, 2011 3:46 am | CommentsLONDON (AP) — Britain is calling time on more than 300 years of history, by relaxing rules on pub glass sizes. Pubs will soon be able to serve a smaller beer, holding about 400 milliliters — a measure popular in some parts of Australia where it is known as a schooner. Science Minister David Willetts said Tuesday that centuries old rules governing the sale of alcohol are being relaxed in response to health concerns and following demands from businesses to sell sizes better suited to modern waistlines and wallets.
Sentence Ends For Beef Plant Scammer
January 5, 2011 3:43 am | CommentsJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has terminated the supervised release for a Georgia businessman snagged in a beef plant scandal and convicted of making an illegal campaign contribution to former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. Nixon Cawood Jr. was charged in the federal investigation into Mississippi Beef Processors LLC, which closed three months after it opened in 2004, costing 400 jobs and sticking Mississippi taxpayers with $55 million for state-backed loans.
Ranchers Call For Return To Horses As Food
January 5, 2011 3:37 am | CommentsLAS VEGAS (AP) — Ranchers and horse owners in the United States should be allowed to slaughter their animals and sell the meat as food, said dozens of breeders, trainers and lawmakers gathered in Las Vegas this week to revive the nation's shuttered horse processing industry. The first Summit of the Horse on Tuesday drew advocates from across the West who slammed animal rights groups and implored the federal government to once again embrace horse meat as a legal source of nutrition, saying horse meat is already safely consumed in dozens of countries.
