USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service has updated its list of ingredients approved for use in meat, poultry and egg product to include sodium benzoate, sodium propionate and benzoic acid.
Several meat, poultry and food retail associations urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to delay implementation of the proposed country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rule.
Rising prices for fish and shrimp in the domestic market as well as partial recovery in export markets have given China’s seafood firms much optimism about 2013 earnings.
As Norwegian fish farming company Cermaq approaches decision time on whether to accept a buyout offer from rival Marine Harvest or stick with its plans to buy Peruvian fishmeal company Copeinca。
Symrise has announced an 8% (local currency) rise in sales from €433 million to €458 million in the first quarter of 2013 while EBITDA was up 6% to €93 million (20.3% margin).
