With more comprehensive food-safety requirements on the horizon, bakers and snack producers will be required to raise the bar for their manufacturing and distribution practices.
Several leading packaging material producers discuss issues influencing the type of packaging bakers and snack producers are using to meet consumer needs and their own.
The six-day fair in Munich showcased a wide product spectrum for the baking and confectionery sector, with more than 1,100 exhibitors that transformed the Messe München exhibit hall into ‘the world’s largest bakery.’
The baking and snack food industries have been rife with acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs and other activities this year. So much so, that it’s sometimes difficult to tell who the major players are. Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery’s Top Bakers and Top Snack Manufacturers lists help put it all into perspective.
The number of product launches tracked by Innova Market Insights so far in 2012 containing one or more natural sweeteners including agave syrup/nectar, palm sugar, Stevia and monk fruit has more than tripled compared to the same time frame in 2009.
More peanut butter manufacturers are recalling products. The recalls started with a salmonella-linked product sold at Trader Joe’s and have been expanded to dozens of peanut, cashew and almond butters, according to producer Sunland Inc.
Tortilla Industry Association, Arlington, Va., names Helen Chavez-Hansen of La Tapatia Tortilleria and Eugene Suarez Sr. of Abuelita Mexican Foods to its 2012 Hall of Fame at its 23rd Annual Convention & Trade Exposition at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Sept. 10-11.
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