Agriculture


  • Diamond Foods Axes CEO, CFO Over $80M Accounting Snafu
    Diamond Foods announced today its CEO Michael Mendes and CFO Steven Neil were put on administrative leave and the snack maker will have to restate financial results for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 after the audit committee of its board of directors determined improper ...More
    February 9, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Sugar Industry Refiles HFCS Lawsuit
    Attorneys for the Sugar Association and sugar farmers it represents filed papers in a Los Angeles federal court on Feb. 6 accusing members of the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) of attempting to evade liability for their roles in the creation and sponsorship of false ...More
    February 8, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Food Safety Top Priority for Consumers, Manufacturers
    Just this past year, food recalls and natural disasters affected global food supply chains, while political upheavals, new government regulations and continued debates about the environment pushed the issued of foods safety to the forefront of both manufacturers’ and ...More
    February 7, 2012
    Posted in News, Bakery / Cereal
  • FDA Blocks More OJ Imports Over Fungicide
    Brazil's orange juice industry has removed the pesticide carbendazim from its list of recommended fungicides for crop treatments after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked another 20 shipments of orange juice last week from entering the country because they ...More
    February 6, 2012
    Posted in News
  • DuPont Sets Goals to Curb World Hunger
    In an effort to curb world hunger, DuPont announced new food security goals that address innovation, education and rural community development that will be tracked along with the company’s current sustainability goals. DuPont has set a 2020 goal for completion of the new ...More
    February 6, 2012
    Posted in News, Bakery / Cereal
  • Raw Milk Sickens 38 on East Coast
    raw milk bacteria
    The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that 38 people in four states have been sickened by raw milk contaminated with Campylobacter bacteria that was produced at The Family Cow farm in Chambersburg, Pa. ...More
    February 3, 2012
    Posted in News
  • IFT, FAO Partner to Address Global Food Needs
    The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a “Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)" to facilitate cooperation between FAO and IFT in preventing and readdressing the increasing risks associated with ...More
    February 3, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Salmonella Kills 1, Sickens 30 in the UK
    An outbreak of Salmonella Newport linked to tainted ready-to-eat sliced watermelon has killed one and sickened 30 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to the U.K. Health Protection Agency. The outbreak began in December 2011, and cases of illness caused by the ...More
    February 2, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Industry Ask Feds to Reject New Food Taxes, Fees
    Leading food industry groups are asking the Obama Administration to develop a fiscal year 2013 budget request that fully funds U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food-safety programs without implementing new food taxes or fees. ...More
    February 1, 2012
    Posted in News, Bakery / Cereal
  • Grafted Watermelons Contain Higher Pesticide Levels
    Grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks to make the fruit more resistant to diseases results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, according to a new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food ...More
    January 30, 2012
    Posted in News
« Previous12345678910113839Next »