The USDA has launched the Branded Food Product Database, an informational hub for consumers, the food industry and researchers alike that contains the nutrition details on more than 80,000 name brand prepared and packaged foods.

The German pharmaceutical company agreed to purchase Monsanto, a leading producer of genetically-engineered seed and glyphosate-based herbicide.

The new interactive program currently covers all San Diego-based Chicken of the Sea shelf-stable tuna products and will soon to the company’s entire shelf-stable product line.

Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG — industrial gas suppliers to the food processing industry through a range of applications — have ended merger discussions.

MIH Marketing and Sales of Beebe, AR is recalling more than 662,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products.

FDA has awarded $21.8 million to support 42 states as they begin to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Growth is largely expected to come from developing countries in the Asia-Pacific and Eastern European regions.

Hormel Foods Corporation CEO Jeffrey M. Ettinger will retire at the end of October, the company announced this week.

Filling what the company referred to as “geographic white spaces,” Mondelez announced the major expansion will include pairing its Oreo brand with Milka.