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Baking Business News
Consumers, manufacturers and brand owners require a lot from packaging. We need packages to promote and protect products, provide necessary ingredient, instruction and safety information and enhance supply chain efficiency to ensure products reach consumers while maintaining the highest safety and quality standards.
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PRODUCT SHOWCASE
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With heightened awareness of the health benefits of blueberries (antioxidants, anthocyanins, anti-aging research…), show your customers that you use real blueberries with the Real Blueberries™ Seal! Go to: https://realblueberries.org/real-blueberries-seal/
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Meat and Poultry News
The new genetically modified organism labeling law might have some influence on what ingredients and foods qualify as nonbioengineered/non-GMO. Highly processed sugars and oils are examples.
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Southwest Farm Press
In spite of what seemed to be attractive promises to rural voters last year leading up to the general elections, U.S. agriculture has so far seen little positive development to help them as they struggle to put food, not only in the nation's pantry, but also on their own tables. That's according to a magazine article published by an Ivy League university.
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Food Dive
The fiscal year 2015 annual report from the Food and Drug Administration's Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program found that 98 percent of domestic foods and 90 percent of imported foods tested were within federal pesticide residue limits. The report stated that 18.3 percent of fruits and 38 percent of vegetables sampled showed no detectable pesticide residues, but 2.2 percent of fruit samples and 3.8 percent of vegetable samples contained residues that violated federal limits.
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Food Navigator
Redrawing the global map of crop distribution on existing farmland could boost food production and "significantly" reduce water stress in agricultural areas, according to a new study.
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Food Dive
A report from The Hartman Group found that about 70 percent of consumers say they want retailers to be more transparent about their sustainability efforts. The results come from a survey of 1,500 people.
Respondents also named Whole Foods, Walmart and Target among the most transparent companies when it comes to sustainability efforts.
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Baking Business News
John Stanton, Ph.D., professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, has been working in the food marketing industry for 40 years. During those 40 years, there have been a lot of changes in the food landscape — but Dr. Stanton feels the most change has occurred in the past five years.
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Food Safety News
Nestle Prepared Foods Co. is recalling 26,400 pounds of pork and beef "Hot Pockets" products that were donated to a charitable organization and distributed to food banks.
The recalled products are misbranded and include undeclared allergens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
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Global Meat News
The Montana Stock Growers Association has signed a beef supply deal with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the next three years.
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Food Business News
Operating in categories where it has a right to win, not revenue growth, is the near-term focus for SunOpta Inc. as it moves through phase one of its transformation, said David J. Colo, president and CEO.
In the third quarter ended Sept. 30, SunOpta sustained a loss of $6,027,000 on revenues of $320,713,000. This compared with a loss of $3,355,000 on sales of $348,732,000 in the same period a year ago.
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Global Meat News
U.S. beef exports "jumped substantially" in value in September despite hurricanes impacting Caribbean demand, latest figures compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation for the U.S. Department of Agriculture have revealed.
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