In its latest initiative to boost food safety in China, Walmart launched a mobile testing program in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, on Thursday.
Boulder Brands, Inc., formerly known as Smart Balance, Inc., continued to flex its muscles behind a growing portfolio of gluten-free products and the announcement it plans to expand the Udi’s brand to Europe.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture projected U.S. sugar carryover on Oct. 1, 2014, at 2,245,000 short tons, raw value, up 77,000 tons, or 4%, from 2,168,000 tons forecast as the carryover on Oct. 1, 2013.
Operating income of the Commodity Trading and Milling Division of Seaboard Corp. in the first quarter ended March 30 decreased 52% to $12,328,000 from $25,693,000 in the same period a year ago.
Undeclared allergens, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) were the top three food safety incidences reported to the Food and Drug Administration during 2012.
Following up on its announced goal last year of closing 10% to 15% of its plants, the Dean Foods Co. has closed its facility in Shreveport, La., and is in the process of closing a plant in Buena Park, Calif.
