Food News

A top-to-bottom scrubbing after a deadly listeriosis outbreak apparently didn't fully cleanse a Maple Leaf Foods plant of mould, slime and meat debris, newly released documents show.

Dairy cooperative Fonterra lifted its forecast payout to farmers to $NZ6.05 per kilogram of milksolids, from the $NZ5.10 announced in September.

Volatility continues Wednesday with stocks coming off their morning highs to close mixed on the session.

The Penn State Children's Hospital got a boost for its $65 million capital campaign on Tuesday.

Kraft Foods Inc. , the worlda s second- largest food maker, may increase its 9.8 billion-pound bid for confectioner Cadbury Plc by tomorrowa s deadline to keep its takeover attempt alive.

UK sugar firm Tate & Lyle has decided to close its final-salary pension scheme. The company has blamed an increase in the scheme's deficit to A 110 million for the scrapping of the scheme that will close to 400 current employees, half of its UK workforce.

A class-action lawsuit alleging insider trading and securities fraud by several top executives of Nature's Sunshine Products Inc.

Stocks and bonds pared earlier gains but then bounced back following the Federal Reserve's latest policy announcement, which suggested its easy-money stance will continue awhile longer.

Jennifer Granholm and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have announced a $16.7 million grant to train math and science teachers for work in urban school districts in the state.

Two York County snack food companies announced Wednesday that they have called off their planned merger.

Kraft Foods Inc. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Kraft Foods Inc.

The recession has had a major impact on how consumers shop but also how retailers draw them in and a major factor has been price.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , Jelly Belly Candy Company is recalling 7.5-ounce cylinder-style packages of 49 Flavors Jelly Belly jelly beans because the package is incorrectly labeled.

Nov. 6 -- Kraft Foods Inc., which faces a Nov. 9 deadline to come up with a fully financed proposal for Cadbury Plc, reportedly plans to submit a formal bid for U.K. chocolate maker this weekend.

Western Sugar Cooperative representatives are still hoping to find some undamaged sugar beets as the harvest continues in northern Wyoming.

The deal is off for a Pennsylvania snack food company's plan to buy its nearby competitor.

Atchison, KSa ' Tim Newkirk , president and chief executive officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc.

Industrial sites in Idaho are due to benefit from a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help them boost efficiency.

A federal court has ruled that Tyson Foods Inc. violated federal labor standards for not paying production line employees for the time it takes them to put on and remove protective and sanitary gear.

Food maker Sara Lee Corp. said Thursday cost-cutting, solid sales of new products and a decline in commodity costs drove its fiscal first-quarter profit up 23 percent.