Dramatic changes in demographics, lifestyles, and eating patterns of consumers are helping drive packaging technology innovations.

Cargill announced it is eliminating 20 percent of shared-class antibiotics from its four feed yards in Texas, Kansas and Colorado, and four additional feed yards operated by Friona Industries.

General Mills says it is committed to doubling its organic acreage, meeting a goal of 250,000 acres by 2019.

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is issuing a final rule amending the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations.

The J.M. Smucker Company is implementing a new leadership transition plan that names Mark T. Smucker as CEO, replacing his uncle Richard K. Smucker.

The 2016 ISA Food and Pharmaceutical Industries (FPID) Symposium will be held March 14-15 in Cork, Ireland.

USDA has issued a health alert to notify the public of a recall involving approximately 103, 752 pounds of chicken nugget products.

A federal judge ordered Delaware-based Roos Foods Inc. to pay $100,000 for its role as the source of a 2014 Listeria outbreak.

APHIS released a preliminary epidemiology report for the highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza cases in Indiana.

The 2015 edition of the North American Meat Institute’s (NAMI) Meat & Poultry Facts is now available.