Food Industry

The struggle with weight gain and obesity is a common and costly health issue, leading to an increase in risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer, just to name a few.1 Obese individuals also have substantially higher medical expenses and indirect costs associated with lost productivity, transportation and…

Waiting for any industry to self-regulate itself is just plain dumb. Honestly, industry's job is to protect and promote sales, and that's of course true for the food industry as well. Self-regulation tends to crop up not out of altruism or doing the right thing, but rather as a means…

Opinion Chemical pesticides have been an accepted part of the global food industry for decades. Since being introduced in the 1970s by Monsanto, products containing glyphosate have helped increase and secure the global food supply through widespread use. The chemical has become so indispensable to the industry that removing it…

PORTLAND – A former Rockland business that was sold in 2017 to DowDuPont, has reached a settlement with former employees who filed a lawsuit claiming the company never paid them their accrued vacation pay when the sale occurred. FMC Corp. was named as the defendant in the lawsuit, initially filed…

NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Specialty Food Association's Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, CA welcomed eight culinary arts students from the San Jose Job Corps Culinary Arts Program. The students represented the Gen Z point of view as members of a special SFA Trendspotter Panel, scouting the…

Just when coffee culture couldn’t get more obsessive, Panera is launching the ultimate bottomless cup with an $8.99/month subscription for unlimited coffee and tea.The deal: Subscribers can get one cup of hot drip coffee, hot tea or iced coffee every two hours, unlimited. Light roast, dark roast, hazelnut, iced or…

Candy Industry Demonstrates the Right Way to Lead Attendees view products displayed at the Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. More products are now 200 ... calories or less. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP If you shopped for candy recently, you may have noticed that individually sized…

Can a pork cutlet which is on special offer be of high quality and still feed the farmer who produced it? Given the current imbalance in Germany’s food industry, EURACTIV Germany travelled to Brandenburg to discuss good food and fair prices with one of the region’s organic farmers. Germany’s farmers…

When it comes to the highest-paid managers in the fast-food industry, Taco Bell leads the pack, according to data from Glassdoor which analyzed 10 major players in the fast-food industry.Earlier this year, the California-based chain, which serves a variety of Mexican and Tex-Mex foods, upped the ante by enticing those with a $100,000 salary. In January,…

The better burger chain's growth struggles worsened towards the end of 2019. Investors became more cautious about Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) stock after the restaurant chain's surprisingly weak third-quarter results were released in early November. That report included a few warning signs on both the top and bottom lines, with sales…