President Obama is asking for a 17% boost to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) budget for fiscal year 2013. Most of the increase would come from increasing industry fees, says the budget request released by the Administration.
Cupcakes continue to lure consumers, and it may not be a fad. Some 669.4 million of the treats were sold from October 2010 to October 2011, according to the market research firm NPD. It’s an enduring love affair.
For the first time, iba summit, a day-long global baking dialogue, will be featured at iba 2012. The summit promises top speakers who will discuss world nutrition and trends in the international baking industry.
Join Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery and Hixson, one of the leading design and engineering firms in North America, for this webinar series that explores several issues shaping food plants in the future, including productivity improvement and cost reduction, sustainability, and food safety.
The Grain Foods Foundation (GFF) board of trustees agrees to refocus the foundation’s efforts into three main objectives, including a move from concentrating on consumers to promoting nutrition benefits of grain foods to key influencers, tracking those initiatives and maintaining crisis management reserves.
U.S. shoppers are buying more generic products, not only to save money, but because they prefer certain private-label brands. In some cases, the private labels are more expensive than national brands and are rising in price more rapidly.
Hollywood’s elite attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival noshed on offerings from Udi's Gluten Free Foods. Festival attendees were greeted with gluten-free bread, bagels, granola and more at Udi’s booth.
Kraft Foods has been involved in sustainability projects for some time; the company has become more focused in the past few years by figuring out what matters most to its business and where it can have a ‘significant impact’ environmentally.