US poultry industry urges worker safety as priority
The US National Chicken Council (NCC) has praised poultry processors for keeping staff safe during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Archives for April 8, 2020
Next generation cultures from DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences create the 'dream yogurt'
With the release of its new YO-MIX PRIME yogurt cultures, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences says it has entered a new chapter of yogurt formulation offering manufacturers and consumers a more consistent product that maintains a mild taste profile throughout...
Nutritional snacking will survive during and after a crisis, predicts Simply Good Foods
Simply Good Foods – parent company to Quest Nutrition and Atkins Nutritionals – entered FY2020 feeling confident about its performance of its core brands exceeding sales expectations through the first half of the year.
Sen. Markey pushes for higher safety at grocery stores as employees begin to die from coronavirus
Days after the first reported coronavirus-related deaths of grocery store employees, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass) asked FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for additional guidance on how retail food workers and customers can protect...
Monk fruit... a new source of dietary fiber that doubles as a sweetener?
Monk fruit (Luo Han Guo) is best known as a source of high intensity natural sweeteners, but it could also emerge as an intriguing new source of fiber, claims Ingredients by Nature, which has developed a ‘sweet fiber’ from the pomace of monk fruit called...
SURVEY: How is coronavirus impacting food innovation and R&D?
Onboarding new brands is not top of the priority list right now at most food retailers, many of which are more focused on rationalizing SKUs than adding new ones. Meanwhile, R&D under lockdown isn't easy. So is innovation on pause, or are companies...
Nestlé on COVID-19: ‘We need to focus our efforts on securing supplies, manufacturing and logistics’
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider warns that the business must ‘get ready for the storm’ as supply chain challenges are expected to intensify amid the global coronavirus pandemic.