Food News

A company that bought a chicken processing plant in northeastern Louisiana with help from the state expects to bring back most if not all the 1,300 jobs that were lost when the facility closed in May and offer long-term support for the rural region's struggling economy.

Tembec Inc. said Thursday it would shut down its newsprint and sawmill operations in Kapuskasing, Ont.

Officials say a cocoa processing facility in New Jersey where a worker fell into a vat of melting chocolate and died was operating illegally.

The situation at the Patrick Cudahy Inc. plant is mostly under control after a massive fire prompted an evacuation order on Monday.

Marketing specialists generally applaud Johnson & Johnson's quick reaction to a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel's recommendation that sweeping limits be placed on acetaminophen, the generic name of its Tylenol brand.

The 370 workers at the Armour-Eckrich meat plant in Hastings will lose their jobs at the end of next week.

The co-CEOs of J.M. Smucker Co. both received compensation of about $3.9 million in fiscal 2009, a 23 percent increase from the prior year.

Smithfield Foods Inc. CEO C. Larry Pope received compensation valued at $1.8 million for fiscal 2009, 49 percent less than the year before, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday.

MINNEAPOLIS - General Mills Inc. is recalling some Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters products because they may be tainted with salmonella.The Golden Valley-based company says the source of the potential contamination is pecans provided by an unidentified supplier.The product is a bag of bite-size granola clusters sold in stores and vending ...

Dirt will be moving in six to eight weeks on Leprino Foods' Greeley cheese plant, the first phase of that plant will be operational by 2011 and the company remains bullish on the northern Colorado dairy industry.

Minneapolis Supervalu said its president and COO Mike Jackson will retire, effective Aug.

The stubborn fire that gutted part of a sprawling meatpacking plant in suburban Milwaukee is finally out.

This one popped, or peeped, out of nowhere. Interesting. Can't see a chain of 'em, but then, Peeps aren't my thing.

Supervalu said Wednesday its President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Jackson will retire effective August 14.

The European Union extended import fees on U.S. biodiesel Tuesday, saying it had to protect European producers from unfair American subsidies and below-cost selling.

The Chief Executive of Campbell Soup remains hospitalized after an accident last week on the New Jersey Turnpike, according to a report in The Courier-Post . The report said Douglas Conant, 58, was hurt in the accident Thursday when he was a passenger in a car driving from Camden, headquarters for Campbell Soup, to his Morris County home.

The mayor of Cudahy has given the all-clear for residents to resume normal water usage as of midnight Tuesday night after more than a day of restricted use as firefighters battled a huge fire in a meatpacking plant.

The first of what might be several lawsuits by people sickened by E. coli-tainted beef was filed Monday in Denver federal court against the Greeley slaughterhouse that produced the meat and later recalled it.

First, the Food and Drug Administration went after Cheerios . Now it appears to be targeting another beloved U.S. brand: Tylenol.

Richland and ConAgra Foods have signed a $1.4 million agreement for the city to sell land at Columbia Point to the company to build an administrative campus.