While consumers continue to wage battles on both sides of the genetically modified organisms (GMO) debate, officials at FDA have concluded a variety of genetically engineered apples and potatoes are just as safe and nutritionally valuable as their traditional counterparts.
The Acme Smoked Fish Corporation—manufacturer of Acme, Blue Hill Bay, Ruby Bay and Great American smoked and cured seafood—has opened the doors to its new 100,000-sq.-ft. facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, the largest cold smoked salmon facility in the US.
Bizerba, a provider of weighing, slicing and labeling technologies for the food industry, has acquired the food sector of French company Luceo SAS to allow its customers to benefit from a high degree of safety and quality control provided by the transaction.
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) announced speakers for its upcoming Meat Industry Management Conference held from April 15-18 in Carlsbad, California. The conference will feature sessions on food safety, government regulations, economics, communications and workforce issues.
When it comes to snack and nutrition bars, convenience and taste rank high among what consumers crave, according to a recent article published in Food Technology magazine by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
A number of food processors and industry innovators were tapped as nominees for the 2015 Edison Awards in the categories of Food Processing & Preparation and Food Packaging & Beverages.
Diet soda drinkers may want to watch how much of the artificially sweetened beverages they are sucking down these days after a recent study linked calorie-free colas to greater waist size in seniors.
Kraft Foods Group has issued a massive recall of approximately 242,000 cases of original flavor Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner because of the possibility that some boxes may contain small pieces of metal.
The Tennessee whiskey war waged on as Popcorn Sutton Distilling announced John R. Lunn will take over the position of Master Distiller, leaving his position at the George Dickel Distillery.
Frontier Natural Products Co-op issued a voluntary recall of 38 products manufactured with organic garlic powder sold under its Frontier and Simply Organic brands, and one product sold under the Whole Foods Market brand because of a potential Salmonella contamination, FDA announced.