PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, awarded nearly $100,000 last year through its foundation to advance the education of students with majors involving packaging, package design and package engineering at select colleges and technical schools across North America.
The Obama Administration announced a plan of action to end illegal fishing and fraud by launching a fish tracking program that would make more information—like point of origin and means of production—available to consumers.
An outbreak of Listeriosis has been linked to ice cream products manufactured at a Blue Bell Creameries production facility in Brenham, Texas according to FDA.
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) continued to pressure FDA at the Senate Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on the FDA’s budget relating to the menu labeling regulations passed last year.
Multinational manufacturer General Mills is looking to sell its Green Giant frozen and canned vegetable business, according to Reuters who spoke with sources close to the matter.
San Francisco supervisors who backed a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages in the have taken up a different strategy in their fight against sugar by proposing legislations that would make the city the first to require warning labels on advertising for these type of beverages, according to reports from the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has approved a type of powdered alcohol product, Palcohol, that consumers can mix into liquid in order to create their favorite alcoholic beverages.
The North American Meat Institute Foundation (NAMIF) has released an updated version of its Yellow Pages, a meat and poultry consumer resource guide that provides information and answers to commonly questions about meat supply, preparation, cooking and nutrition.
The US Poultry and Egg Association is now accepting applications for its 2015 Clean Water Awards that honor outstanding performance of wastewater treatment plants that operate at poultry or egg processing facilities.