Beef, poultry, seafood big US foodborne illness drivers
Poultry, beef, seafood, dairy and produce were the top categories at the centre of US foodborne disease outbreaks over a 10-year period, according to a report just published.
Archives for June 8, 2015
Poultry industry divided over bird flu vaccine
Chicken and turkey farmers and producers in the US are split over whether a vaccine should be introduced to fight the outbreak of bird flu that has killed millions of birds.
Memory based dietary assessment methods such as NHANES are “fundamentally and fatally flawed”, argues researcher
Diet-health inferences that rely on memory-based dietary intake surveys such as USDA’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) are “essentially meaningless”, argues a new study highlighting consistent disparities between what - and how...
Winston Lee: 'We're caramelizing milk and sugar together and then culturing it'
Tarte Asian Yogurt CEO: 'Greek has 47% of the market; we’re going after the other 53%'
When Winston Lee started pitching Tarte Asian Yogurt to retailers three years ago, the market had already hit peak Greek, he says: “Buyers were already looking at what's next after Greek. If you weren't already a brand on the shelf, you had missed the...
End of gestation crates for JBS SA
JBS SA, which owns Seara, Brazil’s second largest pork producer, has revealed plans to phase out of the use of gestation crates for breeding sows by 2016.
Back to the Roots raises $2 million to develop new RTE products & growing kits
Back to the Roots want to go beyond providing consumers with packaged food that has a simple ingredient list – it wants to give them the exact recipe so they can recreate the product; and big names in the food and tech world want to help the company do...
Campbell Soup to acquire salsa, dips, chips maker Garden Fresh Gourmet for $231m
Campbell Soup has struck a $231m deal to buy salsa, dips and chips maker Garden Fresh Gourmet in a bid to boost its presence in the store perimeter.