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• 1 in 10 People Around The World Gets Sick From Food Every Year - NPR

  16-12-2015 21:01 via
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  1 in 10 People Around The World Gets Sick From Food Every Year
  NPR
  A common nuisance of wandering the world is travelers' diarrhea. Food in many regions of the world isn't always properly handled, and that can put you in bed for several days. Countries with strict (and regularly enforced) food safety regulations, like ...and more »
  

• Pinterest says these 10 food and drink trends are going to be huge in 2016 - Los Angeles Times

  16-12-2015 20:01 via
  Los Angeles Times
  Pinterest says these 10 food and drink trends are going to be huge in 2016
  Los Angeles Times
  According to Pinterest, one of the top food and drink trends for 2016 is pour-over coffee. Pictured is a pour-over with Ethiopia Wote Konga coffee by Klatch Coffee at Lavender and Honey in Pasadena. According to Pinterest, one of the top food and drink ...
  

• Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics? - Eater

  16-12-2015 19:15 via
  Eater
  Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?
  Eater
  We are living in the era of the infographic. You know what I mean: the bar charts illustrating recent polls and the maps of recent shootings - or, often, lighter topics - pushed across our Twitter and Facebook timelines by news organizations looking ...
  

• BPSO to deliver holiday cheer with food, gifts - Shreveport Times

  16-12-2015 19:08 via
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  BPSO to deliver holiday cheer with food, gifts
  Shreveport Times
  Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office has two upcoming events as part of their Operation Blessing and Santa initiatives. Christmas Food Box Delivery. Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington will host a short news conference Thursday, Dec. 17, as BPSO deputies and ...and more »
  

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• Holiday food drive collecting donations, raising awareness - Columbia Missourian

  16-12-2015 18:55 via
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  Holiday food drive collecting donations, raising awareness
  Columbia Missourian
  COLUMBIA — Large bins and orange cones line the drop-off lane at the northeast corner of Broadway and Providence Road. Volunteers and firefighters stand ready to collect donations for the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. The One for One ...
  Food bank raises record-setting $1 million in donationsColumbia Daily Tribune
  One for One Holiday Food Drive taking donations in ColumbiaABC1
  

• Strawn's Eat Shop Too continues to comfort with food - Shreveport Times

  16-12-2015 18:47 via
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  Strawn's Eat Shop Too continues to comfort with food
  Shreveport Times
  The original location of Strawn's has been open since 1944 and was bought by Buddy Gauthier in 1988. Opened by various members of the Gauthier family, the offshoot Strawn's locations in the Shreveport/Bossier area continue to have the family touch.
  

• Convergys holds food drive for Manna Café - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

  16-12-2015 18:39 via
  Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
  Convergys holds food drive for Manna Café
  Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
  (Cincinnati, Ohio & Clarksville, TN; Dec. 15, 2015) Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer management, recently wrapped up a month-long food drive to benefit Manna Café Ministries. Manna Café is a local nonprofit whose mission ...and more »
  

• How The Food Industry Helps Engineer Our Cravings - NPR

  16-12-2015 18:35 via
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  How The Food Industry Helps Engineer Our Cravings
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  It is no secret that the rise in obesity in America has something to do with food. But how much? And what role does the food industry as a whole play? As part of Here & Now's series this week on obesity, America On The Scale, host Jeremy Hobson spoke ...and more »
  

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• Are you ready to change your relationship with food this holiday season? - Poughkeepsie Journal

  16-12-2015 18:22 via
  Are you ready to change your relationship with food this holiday season?
  Poughkeepsie Journal
  I like many others, am an emotional eater. If you think about it, our relationship with food is very diversified. We eat out of pleasure, to entertain, mingle, out of boredom and/or loneliness and sometimes even to reward ourselves and others. We also ...
  

• Composting food waste remains your best option, says UW study - UW Today

  16-12-2015 18:10 via
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  Composting food waste remains your best option, says UW study
  UW Today
  Many people compost their food scraps and yard waste because they think it's the right thing to do. food scraps in compost bin. A new University of Washington study confirms that sentiment, and also calculates the environmental benefits associated with ...
  Composting food waste remains your best optionPhys.Org
  Composting food waste remains your best option, says UW study University of ...EurekAlert (press relea
  

• Supermarket, WKTU's Cubby & Carolina to host food drive - SILive.com

  16-12-2015 16:32 via
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  Supermarket, WKTU's Cubby & Carolina to host food drive
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  Met Food Markets and market owner Bill Fani donate to the borough's charities. Here they presented checks to the Children's Campaign at the 2014 Advance Cookbook Taste-off held at the Hilton Garden Inn. (Staten Island Advance/Irving Silverstein).
  

• Avoid a holiday food hangover - LancasterOnline

  16-12-2015 16:26 via
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  Avoid a holiday food hangover
  LancasterOnline
  So were the spreads of homemade cookies, the little cocktail meatballs, the ambrosia salad and the macaroni and cheese with extra crumbs sprinkled on top. And the holiday punch with a little extra something added — did you have three or four glasses?and more »
  

• New Low Cost Healthy Supermarket Could Change Food in America - The Daily Banter

  16-12-2015 16:18 via
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  New Low Cost Healthy Supermarket Could Change Food in America
  The Daily Banter
  If aliens were studying human societies, other than our bizarre obsession with blowing things up, they'd likely be most shocked at the way in which we manage our food. While industrialized agriculture and corporate supermarkets have produced and ...and more »
  

• Hangry? Piecaken? The top new-food words for 2015 - The Seattle Times

  16-12-2015 15:02 via
  The Seattle Times
  Hangry? Piecaken? The top new-food words for 2015
  The Seattle Times
  A ring displays the word “Hangry,” defined as the state of being so hungry that you become angry or irritable. The language of food is changing at breakneck speed to reflect new menus, new mashups, new diets, new hashtags. (TONY CENICOLA/NYT).
  Hangry, climatarian, piecaken: The top food words of 2015Christian Science Monitorall 7 news articles »
  

• Extruder keeps house with portable industrial vacuums

  16-12-2015 15:00
  
  At J.R. Short Milling, a large-footprint snack food extruder, sanitation has become a way of life.
  
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• GMO Labeling Laws 2015: New SmartLabel Food Product Initiative Stirs Debate - International Business Times

  16-12-2015 13:57 via
  International Business Times
  GMO Labeling Laws 2015: New SmartLabel Food Product Initiative Stirs Debate
  International Business Times
  GettyImages-185201267 Dawn Moreno shops for yogurt during the grand opening of a Trader Joe's on Oct. 18, 2013 in Pinecrest, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images; GettyImages-154217312 A woman shops at the low cost, high volume supermarket ...and more »
  

• The year in review - the top food industry interviews of 2015

  16-12-2015 12:49
  
  2015 was another year of insightful interviews with a wide range of senior executives in the international food sector. Here we present the most-read interviews on just-food this year. Click on the headlines for more.
  
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• A year in review - the top food industry interviews of 2015

  16-12-2015 12:49
  
  2015 was another year of insightful interviews with a wide range of senior executives in the international food sector. Here we present the most-read interviews on just-food this year. Click on the headlines for more.
  
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• Food drive eases holiday stress - Zanesville Times Recorder

  16-12-2015 12:28 via
  Zanesville Times Recorder
  Food drive eases holiday stress
  Zanesville Times Recorder
  ZANESVILLE — The annual Salvation Army food drive was a win-win for Kevin Rossiter, a student at the Mid-East Career and Technology Centers. "Get to help people out, and get a break from class?" Rossiter said, pausing as he loaded up a car with a box ...and more »
  

• People Who Lived Through Medieval Times Ate Some Really Weird Food - Huffington Post

  16-12-2015 12:08 via
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  People Who Lived Through Medieval Times Ate Some Really Weird Food
  Huffington Post
  Our current food system often feels like it's in disarray, with talks of the obesity epidemic, the high levels of food waste and the ever-present worries about GMOs. It can feel dire at times, but then something comes along -- like this infographic of ...and more »
  

• Bell swoops for Austrian poultry firm Huber

  16-12-2015 10:18
  Switzerland-based Bell Group has struck a deal to buy Austrian poultry supplier The Huber Group.
  
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• Universal Robina Corp. plans more snacks capacity

  16-12-2015 10:00
  Universal Robina Corp. has plans to expand production in Asia, the Philippines-based group has told just-food.
  
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• Tofutown to distribute Orior's Nature Gourmet

  16-12-2015 09:29
  
  Orior, the Swiss food group, has announced a deal that will Tofutown, a producer of organic and vegetarian products in Germany, distribute its Nature Gourmet lines in three markets.
  
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• Orkla invests in Dutch foodservice ice cream suppliers

  16-12-2015 09:04
  Orkla has snapped up a majority stake in two Netherlands-based ice cream suppliers to the foodservice sector.
  
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• Greenyard Foods reports drop in profits

  16-12-2015 08:54
  
  Greenyard Foods has reported higher half-year sales but a decline in profitability in the first set of six-month results since the formation  of the Belgium-based group earlier this year.
  
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• General Mills reveals work to do on US salt targets

  16-12-2015 08:51
  General Mills has revealed it has met its targets to cut sodium in the US in seven out of ten categories.
  
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• Fonterra to sell Australia desserts business to Parmalat

  16-12-2015 08:48
  Fonterra is to offload its yoghurt and dairy desserts business in Australia to Parmalat, the Italy-based group owned by France's Lactalis.
  
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• Chipotle Installing New Food Safety Protocols From the Ground Up - Food Safety News

  16-12-2015 07:05 via
  Food Safety News
  Chipotle Installing New Food Safety Protocols From the Ground Up
  Food Safety News
  After being responsible within a six-month window for five outbreaks sickening at least 355 people with various pathogens and viruses — and also closing at least 62 of its restaurants — there's plenty of interest in Chipotle Mexican Grill's next move.
  Chipotle runs apology ad, aims as close to perfect food safety as possibleWHDH-TV
  Chipotle Says New Food-Safety Measures Won't Raise Bur
  

• WTO COOL ruling to allow $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs

  16-12-2015 07:00
  According to The Wall Street Journal, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that Canada and Mexico can impose $1.01 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods for country-of-origin labeling rules (COOL) that it says discriminate against livestock from the U.S. trading partners.
  
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• Researchers sequence the walnut genome

  16-12-2015 07:00
  Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety.
  
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• Children’s sweet taste perception tied to bitter receptor gene

  16-12-2015 07:00
  According to new research from the Monell Center, sensitivity to sweet taste varies widely across school-aged children and is in part genetically determined.
  
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• Almond industry launches effort to accelerate innovation, sustainability

  16-12-2015 07:00
  The Almond Board of California (ABC) has launched Accelerated Innovation Management (AIM), a new strategic effort designed to make the almond industry more efficient and sustainable.
  
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• Dirty Dining: Local Costco failed inspection for live roaches near food and ... - ABC Action News

  16-12-2015 05:21 via
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  Dirty Dining: Local Costco failed inspection for live roaches near food and ...
  ABC Action News
  Local Costco failed latest report after food safety inspectors found live roaches crawling in food demonstration area and food at dangerous temperatures. WFTS. Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, ...and more »
  

• Forsakin' bacon: Fast-food giant chooses Islamic food rules - WND.com

  16-12-2015 04:08 via
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  Forsakin' bacon: Fast-food giant chooses Islamic food rules
  WND.com
  Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a ...
  

• Chef Amanda Cohen Dishes on the New York Food Scene - Wall Street Journal

  16-12-2015 02:43 via
  Wall Street Journal
  Chef Amanda Cohen Dishes on the New York Food Scene
  Wall Street Journal
  Amanda Cohen once made burgers and steaks as a line cook at a Harlem diner. But the Toronto native is better known for her vegetable-centric cooking—and for taking a stand as one of the first high-profile chefs to eliminate tipping in New York City ...
  

• The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root - Grist

  16-12-2015 02:09 via
  Grist
  The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root
  Grist
  What if our next-generation, futuristic antimicrobial turns out to be the same thing people have been using for the last 4,000 years? A new invention could improve food safety by borrowing a trick from ancient civilizations: using spice to fend off germs.
  

• Firm Bets on Biotech That Changes How Food Is Produced - Wall Street Journal

  16-12-2015 00:10 via
  Wall Street Journal
  Firm Bets on Biotech That Changes How Food Is Produced
  Wall Street Journal
  The tiny gray moths inside screened sheds near New York's Finger Lakes are notable for two things—they glow red under ultraviolet light, and their daughters are doomed. These diamondback moths have been genetically modified to pass along a gene that ...
  

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