Over the past several  months, particularly during the past presidential campaign, we’ve heard calls for a complete revamp of the way this country approaches food safety.

FDA, CDC investigators explain their observations during the plant inspection, including which products were found to be contaminated, the different strains of Salmonella discovered and why products may have been contaminated in the first place.

By Deborah CassellEditorConfection & Snack Retailingcasselld@bnpmedia.comgetting fresh: Macbook & Cheese“New products” was the topic of this morning’s meeting between chief editors from various food and beverage magazines here at BNP

After expanding Peanut Corporation of America’s recall once again, the company faces a new challenge: bankruptcy. According to PCA, the company has filed for bankruptcy and ceased all of its

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Schokinag-Schokolade-Industrie Herrmann GmbH & Co. KG, a European producer of chocolate and cocoa powder, upon approval by

After 26 years with Retail Confectioners International, executive director Van Billington has left to pursue other employment opportunities, creating an opening for a new executive director. On Jan. 1, 2009,

Doylestown, Pa.-based The Quigley Corp. announced it will close its Simon Candy manufacturing facility located in Elizabethtown, Pa. due to increased raw material costs and low-cost, foreign-sourced products. The closure

According to an article by Jerry Lynottjlynott at timesleader.com, Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. purchased property and a building in Hazleton, Pa. for $12.24 million at the end of December 2008.

Standard Candy Co., the producer of Goo Goo Clusters, announced its plans to close its Eastman, Ga. manufacturing plant by early April. Operations at the Georgia plant will be relocated

Barry Callebaut has opened a new state-of-the-art chocolate factory in Monterrey, Mexico. Besides being the company’s third-largest chocolate production facility, with an annual production capacity of around 100,000 tons, the