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• Arla Foods expands Lactofree range with natural yogurt

  04-07-2016 18:11
  Arla Foods has unveiled a new addition to its portfolio of its UK lactose-free dairy range - Arla Lactofree Natural Yogurt.
  
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• Mondelez's bid for Hershey - 5 things to know 

  04-07-2016 16:49
  Hershey turned down a takeover approach from Mondelez International last week (30 June). At US$107 per share, the cash-and-shares offer valued the Reese's Pieces maker at approximately US$22.83bn. Here is just-food's summary of what you need to know about the deal. 
  
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• Clean Seas enters China, South Korea with Beston tie-up 

  04-07-2016 14:15
  Clean Seas Tuna Limited, the Australian fish company, said today (4 July) that it has  secured a distribution deal to expand in China and South Korea.
  
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• FrieslandCampina acquires majority stake Pakistan's Engro Foods

  04-07-2016 13:16
  
  Friesland Campina, the giant Dutch dairy business, has gained a key strategic position in central Asia with its EUR420m (US$467.5m) acquisition of Engro Foods Limited, Pakistan's second biggest dairy company, in what is being described as a "defining moment" for the Pakistan dairy industry. 
  
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• Giving Was a Blessing for Retiring Interlaken Food Pantry Director - ithaca.com

  04-07-2016 12:15 via ithaca.com
  
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  Giving Was a Blessing for Retiring Interlaken Food Pantry Director
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  The volunteers at the Interlaken Food Pantry June 24; Phyllis Betzler is second from the right. Posted: Monday, July 4, 2016 6:00 am. Giving Was a Blessing for Retiring Interlaken Food Pantry Director by Glynis Hart Ithaca Times | 0 comments. “I think ...and more »
  
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• "Heavenly" baby food firm to target Asian markets - interview

  04-07-2016 12:02
  Since setting up their baby food business from their home in Northern Ireland in 2009, husband-and-wife founders of Heavenly Tasty Organics James Blair and Shauna McCarney-Blair have seen the firm go from strength to strength. Now the firm is about to launch its range of snack products in Asia. James Blair, operations director, tells John Shepherd about the firms latest expansion plans.
  
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• Food commodity prices to remain stable over next decade - FAO/OECD - euronews

  04-07-2016 11:17 via euronews.com
  
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  Food commodity prices to remain stable over next decade - FAO/OECD
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  PARIS (Reuters) – Higher agricultural productivity and slightly larger crop areas in the coming decade will cover rises in food demand, leading to stable prices and a period of more restrained agricultural markets, the FAO and OECD said on Monday.
  Global Food Prices Set to Stagnate as Population Growth SlowingBloombergall 3 news articles »
  
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• Global Food Prices Set to Stagnate as Population Growth Slowing - Bloomberg

  04-07-2016 11:15 via bloomberg.com
  
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  Global Food Prices Set to Stagnate as Population Growth Slowing
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  Food prices will stagnate over the next decade as the population growth rate declines and income expansion in emerging economies slows. Food costs will stabilize at a level slightly higher than in the years before the 2007-08 price spike, the ...
  Food commodity prices to remain stable over next decade - FAO/OECDeuronewsall 4 news articles »
  
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• 7 ways to fight vacation food cravings - Fox News

  04-07-2016 11:02 via foxnews.com
  
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  7 ways to fight vacation food cravings
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  "I was doing so well all day, but that damn pina colada derailed me," a friend recently confessed about a 2-week Maui vacation. "Next thing I knew, I was devouring that big slab of macadamia cream pie my husband ordered after dinner and everything went ...
  
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• Chinese Food Vendors Are Scavenging Shrimp From the Sewers and Selling Them As Food - NextShark

  04-07-2016 10:11 via nextshark.com
  
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  Chinese Food Vendors Are Scavenging Shrimp From the Sewers and Selling Them As Food
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  If you are into processed shrimp products, this story might make your stomach turn a bit. Food scandals in China have made international headlines for years now. From chemical contamination, tampering of food products, and even creating fake food items ...and more »
  
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• Wessanen acquires UK gluten-free baker Mrs Crimble's 

  04-07-2016 09:41
  
  Wessanen has acquired UK gluten-free bakery group Mrs Crimble's for an undisclosed sum. 
  
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• Dr Schär launches gluten-free crackers in Spain

  04-07-2016 09:41
  
  Dr Schär, the European specialist food company for consumers with specific dietary and nutritional requirements, has just launched a range of gluten-free crackers in Spain.
  
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• Turkey Consumer Inflation Climbs More Than Estimates on Food - Bloomberg

  04-07-2016 09:29 via bloomberg.com
  
  Turkey Consumer Inflation Climbs More Than Estimates on Food
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  Turkey's consumer price inflation climbed more than estimated in June, led by a surge in food prices. The annual inflation rate was 7.64 percent last month compared with 6.58 percent in May, Turkey's state statistics institute said Monday. The median ...and more »
  
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• Frozen food safety confusion causing waste, watchdog warns - BBC News

  04-07-2016 09:06 via bbc.com
  
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  Frozen food safety confusion causing waste, watchdog warns
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  Misconceptions about frozen food are contributing to the seven million tonnes of waste thrown out by UK households every year, the Food Standards Agency says. Of the 1,500 people it surveyed, 43% wrongly thought food could only be frozen on the day it ...
  Millions of Brits binning food for no good reason - The ACTUAL rules of defrosting revealedMirror.co.uk
  Food Standards Agency urges UK to cut down on freezer
  
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• Frozen food safety confusion causing waste, warns FSA - BBC News

  04-07-2016 08:06 via bbc.com
  
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  Frozen food safety confusion causing waste, warns FSA
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  Misconceptions about frozen food are contributing to the seven million tonnes of waste thrown out by UK households every year, the Food Standards Agency says. A survey for the FSA found 43% of people wrongly thought food could only be frozen on the ...
  Millions of Brits binning food for no good reason - The ACTUAL rules of defrosting revealedMirror.co.uk
  Food Standards Agency urges UK to cut down on freezer-related
  
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• As Vermont fights for its food labels, industry looks to courts and Congress for guidance - Omaha World-Herald

  04-07-2016 08:04 via omaha.com
  
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  As Vermont fights for its food labels, industry looks to courts and Congress for guidance
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  Food label disclosures, like this one on a candy package, must now appear on food products with genetically modified ingredients that are sold in Vermont. Congress is considering a less stringent version of that labeling law.and more »
  
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• Scientists have found a supplement that can switch off junk food cravings - ScienceAlert

  04-07-2016 07:59 via sciencealert.com
  
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  Scientists have found a supplement that can switch off junk food cravings
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  Scientists in the UK have developed a supplement that can reportedly switch off cravings for high-calorie foods, such a pizza and doughnuts, while leaving the healthy appetite unaffected. After testing the new supplement, called inulin-propionate ester ...
  Want to Lose Weight? Switch Off Your High-Calorie Food Cravings with These New SupplementNature World News
  New supplement could curb crav
  
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• Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis finally disagreed on Food Network Star - SheKnows.com

  04-07-2016 07:18 via sheknows.com
  
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  Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis finally disagreed on Food Network Star
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  Alaina is an entertainment writer who has a lifelong dream of speaking fluent Gilmore Girl. She still mourns the death of Robb Stark and will happily devour any reality show she is served. When she's not writing, she's assisting in autop... View Profile.and more »
  
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• Food Inspections 7-4 - Salina.com

  04-07-2016 06:14 via salina.com
  
  Food Inspections 7-4
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  Each week, the Salina Journal publishes a list of violations noted in food inspections conducted by the Kansas Department of Agriculture in Saline County. Complete food establishment inspection reports can be found on the Salina Journal website at ...
  
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• Strawberry-Top Water Is A Refreshing Solution To Food Waste - Huffington Post

  04-07-2016 05:40 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Strawberry-Top Water Is A Refreshing Solution To Food Waste
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  As part of HuffPost's “Reclaim” project, HuffPost Taste will focus the entire month of July on simple ways you can reduce food waste in your own home. While you could probably just eat the entire strawberry, like some folks do with whole apples ...and more »
  
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• Woman arrested in fatal stabbing at Jacksonville food mart - ActionNewsJax.com

  04-07-2016 05:22 via actionnewsjax.com
  
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  Woman arrested in fatal stabbing at Jacksonville food mart
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  Jacksonville police arrested a 25-year-old woman after a man was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a food mart on Saturday night. Rasean Marcell is accused of killing Jataren Bethel, 25, in the parking lot of the Century 21 Food Mart off Atlantic ...
  One dead after fatal stabbing at Food MartFirstcoastnews.comall 12 news articles »
  
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• “Food is a big deal:” Plenty of options at Veterans Park ahead of US Bank Fireworks Show! - fox6now.com

  04-07-2016 05:06 via fox6now.com
  
  “Food is a big deal:” Plenty of options at Veterans Park ahead of US Bank Fireworks Show!
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  MILWAUKEE -- There was family, fellowship, fun -- and of course, FOOD down at Veterans Park Sunday, July 3rd ahead of and during the spectacular US Bank Fireworks Show. About a dozen vendors set up along the lakefront each year to feed the ...and more »
  
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• Food and fireworks are feted at Anderson Explodes - Redding Record Searchlight

  04-07-2016 04:43 via redding.com
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  Food and fireworks are feted at Anderson Explodes
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  Nathan Solis/Record Searchlight Tommy Vazquez, 17, left and Wayde Henderson, 17, from West Valley High School grill meat with other members of the Future Farmers of America at Anderson Explodes on Sunday. Posted: Yesterday 7:41 p.m.. 2 Comments.
  
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• People taste international food at festival - UpperMichigansSource.com

  04-07-2016 04:36 via uppermichiganssource.com
  
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  People taste international food at festival
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  MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) The second day of Marquette's International Food Festival was in full swing on Sunday. Bands such as Chasing Steel and The Marquette City Band supplied live music. The Marquette County Exchange Club takes the money ...and more »
  
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• Jernard Wells wins challenge on Food Network Star - Chattanooga Times Free Press

  04-07-2016 04:22 via timesfreepress.com
  
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  Jernard Wells wins challenge on Food Network Star
  Chattanooga Times Free Press
  Chef Jernard Wells learned to cook from his father, a Mississippi chef, at age 7. After his father's death when Wells was 16, he opened a restaurant to support this family, cooking out of his mother's kitchen. He moved to Chattanooga eight years ago ...and more »
  
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• From Juliet restaurant to Clover Food Lab, the Jazayeri sisters aim to change our view of food - The Boston Globe

  04-07-2016 04:02 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  From Juliet restaurant to Clover Food Lab, the Jazayeri sisters aim to change our view of food
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  Lane Turner/Globe Staff. Katrina (left) and Lucia Jazayeri at Juliet, the restaurant Katrina co-owns in Somerville. Lucia and Katrina Jazayeri never set out to forge careers in food. Lucia, 29, studied communications; Katrina, 27, social justice. Yet ...and more »
  
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• For food writer who's battling cancer, eating becomes hard work - The Boston Globe

  04-07-2016 04:02 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  For food writer who's battling cancer, eating becomes hard work
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  My job is to eat. For years, that made people around me jealous because, as a food writer, that translated into writing restaurant reviews, developing recipes for steak in the fire and cherry pie, interviewing chefs, doing a clambake by the sea with ...
  
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• Tucson named the best 'under-the-radar' food city in America - Arizona Daily Star

  04-07-2016 03:53 via tucson.com
  
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  Tucson named the best 'under-the-radar' food city in America
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  Knock knock, who's there? Yet another national publication singling out Tucson as a great place to eat. This time we're in a list of five "oft-overlooked locales" that prove "top-tier dining isn't just limited to New York and Los Angeles anymore." A ...
  
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• Gahanna Kroger store suspected of multiple food code violations - 10TV

  04-07-2016 03:33 via 10tv.com
  
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  Gahanna Kroger store suspected of multiple food code violations
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  But, when he walked through the doors of the Kroger off South Hamilton Road in Gahanna on Wednesday night -- he says his appetite vanished. “I could smell the paint when I came in the door,” he said. The smell of paint, he says, was overpowering.
  
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• Foodservice Market in the US 2016-2020

  04-07-2016 02:00
  About the Foodservice Market in the US.Foodservice refers to the sale of food and beverages that have been prepared out-of-home for immediate consumption, either on the premises from where they are
  
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• Music, food, and fireworks bring thousands to Weymouth Fourth of July Celebration - The Patriot Ledger

  04-07-2016 01:34 via patriotledger.com
  
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  Music, food, and fireworks bring thousands to Weymouth Fourth of July Celebration
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  WEYMOUTH – Food, live music, games, and of course fireworks brought families by the busload to the Weymouth Fourth of July Celebration at George Lane Beach in Wessagusset on Sunday. The event has been held for nearly three decades and has grown ...and more »
  
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• Surge pricing is coming to food delivery - VentureBeat

  04-07-2016 00:10 via venturebeat.com
  
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  Surge pricing is coming to food delivery
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  If you think that paying 6x for Uber is a bitter injustice, brace yourself: surge pricing is coming to on-demand food delivery. The delivery companies cannot afford their driver fleets without making this change. It's sheer economics and a trend that ...
  
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