New Zealand will benefit from sheep meat shortage
A pending international shortage of sheep meat should drive up demand and prices for New Zealand lamb, industry body Meat New Zealand said.
Archives for September 2, 2001
Beef business up for sale
The American food group ConAgra Foods Inc. is actively shopping its beef business, ranked third in the United States, to potential buyers, and has recently had talks with pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.
Parmalat Canada to close factory
Food processing company Parmalat Canada is to close a factory in Kingston, Ont., that packages juices and milk, the company announced this week. Juice production will end on November 30, with the work transferred to an unspecified source, and plastic...
Nestlé India studies fruit-based milk drink market
Nestle India is eyeing the emerging market of fruit-based milk drinks in India, reports The Financial Express this week.
FDA error for company food recall
Sargento Foods Inc. of Plymouth said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has informed the company that it made an error in the laboratory finding that led to Sargento issuing a voluntary cheese recall on July 27.
US food polymer co restructures
US food polymer products company Landec Corporation is to restructure its food business to focus on its specialty-packaged technology products and the marketing and sales of whole produce, the company announced in a statement this week.
India releases new hybrid rice varieties
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has released the India's first F1 hybrid basmati rice, plus two other new improved rice varieties.
GM tomatoes boosted for health
German scientists have engineered a genetically modified "healthy" tomato that prevents its new genes from passing to other crops.
First E.coli O-157 case confirmed in Taiwan
Taiwan on Thursday was cited as reporting its first-ever confirmed case of an infection with the virulent O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria that claimed the lives of several children in western Japan during a 1996 epidemic.