Food Industry

Photo: James Beard Foundation The James Beard Foundation announced this afternoon that the organization’s three awards ceremonies will be postponed until summer 2020. According to the statement, “as of now,” finalists for this year’s awards will still be named on March 25 in Philadelphia, as previously planned. “We are mindful…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in China and the railway disruptions across Canada represent two different yet similar classic case studies. They remind us that nations and global economies are becoming increasingly interconnected. Incidents thousands of kilometres away are being felt locally. This is a…

When a pair of students at the University of South Carolina learned that a beloved employee at a local Wendy’s was struggling, they took it upon themselves to help him out. Robert Caldaroni and Alexis Braz say Malcolm Coleman, who works at a Wendy’s near the campus in Columbia, is…

While insect-based foods have so far been a niche product, they are viewed as a highly promising solution to the challenges facing the food industry. Although new EU regulations should pave the way for these products, European eating habits will have to change too. EURACTIV Germany reports. Since the start…

Opinion The food industry and our public health agencies have long recognized that they share the same responsibility to protect consumers from unsafe food.  The modern food industry is, however, growing more diverse, dynamic, and complex. making the application of food protection throughout the broad spectrum of operations a challenge…

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…