USDA proposes revisions to Nutrition Facts panel for meat and poultry products
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed revisions to the Nutrition Facts panel for meat and poultry products, amending regulations published in May 2016.
Archives for December 2, 2016
Demographics don't provide easy answers to GMO debate, says Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: The GMO debate is hugely polarizing, but the divide ‘does not fall along familiar political fault lines’
Think anti-GMO sentiment is primarily the preserve of white college educated liberals? Think again, says Pew Research Center, which has just conducted a consumer survey suggesting that attitudes on GMOs, organics, and other food issues are “conspicuously...
Guilty verdict in 5-hour counterfeiting case seen as potent deterrent
The guilty verdict handed down this week in the 5-hour Energy product counterfeiting case is a milestone within the nutritional products sphere that could serve an important deterrent function, said a lawyer serving the plaintiff.
Nestlé subsidiary Tribe Mediterranean Foods appoints new CEO
Massachusetts-based Tribe Mediterranean Foods, a subsidiary of Nestlé SA and the OSEM Group, has appointed John McGuckin as Chief Executive Officer of its U.S. operations. He will join the company on December 5.
Memphis Meats: We'll have ‘clean meat’ products in grocery stores by 2021
‘Clean’ (a.k.a. cultured/lab-grown) meat pioneer Memphis Meats says it aims to have products in grocery stores by 2021, and says it is confident it will be able to mass produce meat in bioreactors at prices at parity, or below, that of meat from farm...