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• Why Jet.com purchase could boost Wal-Mart's online business

  22-08-2016 20:47
  Wal-Mart's online business in the US has been growing but industry watchers believe the retail giant's expansion has been slower than the channel overall. The company has snapped up fledgling, pure-play business Jet.com, which recently added the delivery of fresh food delivery to its wider FMCG offer. Profitero's Keith Anderson looks at what the deal could mean for both businesses and for manufacturer suppliers.
  
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• Silver Fern Farmers members back Shanghai Mailing deal in fresh vote

  22-08-2016 20:07
  The decision by New Zealand meat co-operative Silver Fern Farms to sell half its business to Chinese peer Shanghai Maling has again been approved in a shareholder vote after a group of members opposing the deal called for a second ballot.
  
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• Amul plans new ice cream plant in Indian city of Pune

  22-08-2016 19:30
  Indian dairy giant Amul is planning to set up an ice cream plant within 18 months in the western city of Pune.
  
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• Amira Nature Foods sees US court dismiss lawsuit

  22-08-2016 18:47
  A court in the US has dismissed a class action lawsuit against Amira Nature Foods stemming from allegations made last year that the rice supplier over-stated its revenue and used funds for personal use.
  
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• SEC 'looking into Hampton Creek's Just Mayo purchases'

  22-08-2016 17:38
  The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly studying whether US firm Hampton Creek violated regulations by not revealing it was buying its own vegan mayonnaise Just Mayo from stores.
  
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• Cricket-Filled Tacos and 'Bug Dogs' Are the Future of Carnival Food - Motherboard

  22-08-2016 16:43
  
  Motherboard
  Cricket-Filled Tacos and 'Bug Dogs' Are the Future of Carnival Food
  Motherboard
  Bugs—a lot of people eat 'em and it's chill. Not me, though. That's gross. This pretty much summed up my attitude about eating insects, which are enjoyed as a delicacy and staple the world over but are also fodder for extreme reality TV gross-out ...
  
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• It's an event that combines food and furry friends, what more could you ask for? - fox6now.com

  22-08-2016 16:19
  
  fox6now.com
  It's an event that combines food and furry friends, what more could you ask for?
  fox6now.com
  MILWAUKEE -- It's an event that combines food and furry friends -- what more could you ask for? Carl spent the morning at the Wisconsin Humane Society's Ozuakee Campus to learn all about Feasting for Felix.
  
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• Patties Foods turnaround benefits from frozen fruit exit 

  22-08-2016 15:50
  An exit of from frozen food has enabled Patties Foods to report an increase in full-year earnings as the Australian company hailed improvements in its core business. 
  
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• Patties turnaround benefits from frozen fruit exit 

  22-08-2016 15:41
  An exit of from frozen food has enabled Patties Foods to report an increase in full-year earnings as the Australian company hailed improvements in its core business. 
  
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• 2 Sisters Food Group outlines "upgrade" for UK poultry site in Scunthorpe

  22-08-2016 15:41
  
  2 Sisters Food Group has claimed it will have "the world's most advanced poultry processing plant" at its site in the UK town of Scunthorpe as it unveiled plans to invest in automation and boost capacity.
  
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• Bellamy's sees "strong" growth in China, Australia

  22-08-2016 15:31
  Bellamy's Australia, the infant formula producer, has booked a leap in annual sales and earnings on growth in China, as well as domestic expansion. 
  
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• Milk, Not Plastic, Will Protect Food in the Future - Bloomberg

  22-08-2016 15:28
  
  Bloomberg
  Milk, Not Plastic, Will Protect Food in the Future
  Bloomberg
  Much of the plastic packaging we see in the grocery store can be recycled, from egg containers, to milk jugs, to butter tubs. But what about that thin plastic film stretched around wedges of manchego in the cheese bin or the 16-ounce rib-eye in the ...
  Scientists Are Using Milk to Make Edible Food WrappersEater
  Edible milk-based packaging reduces food spoilage and plastic wasteNew Atlas
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• Revitalizing native food cultures in modern kitchens - The Seattle Times

  22-08-2016 15:04
  
  The Seattle Times
  Revitalizing native food cultures in modern kitchens
  The Seattle Times
  Walleye fish fillets are an ingredient that chef Sean Sherman uses in his cooking. (RIKKI SNYDER/NYT). Because so many of the native food ways passed down through generations orally, they have been forgotten or obscured, and the quest to revive them ...
  
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• Microbiological testing: Verify your inputs as you verify your outputs

  22-08-2016 15:00
  
  While Paul Simon used “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor,” to refer to apartment house rules of courtesy, you might find a parallel to this separate-but-connected concept in the food supply chain.
  
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• The Hidden Food Costs That Are Killing Your Profits - Nation's Restaurant News

  22-08-2016 14:55
  
  Nation's Restaurant News
  The Hidden Food Costs That Are Killing Your Profits
  Nation's Restaurant News
  Learn about an incredibly powerful tool within your back office solution to save you money. Sponsored by CrunchTime! Advertisement. Restaurant management software has many benefits, but one of the most useful reports your back office solution can ...
  
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• Glasgow's To the Brim to collect food for needy - Bowling Green Daily News

  22-08-2016 14:46
  
  Glasgow's To the Brim to collect food for needy
  Bowling Green Daily News
  The 8th annual To the Brim food drive runs this year from Aug. 31 to Sept. 31, with Houchens locations in Glasgow serving as drop-off points for those wishing to donate nonperishable foods. Bharat Mody, a retired surgeon, started the drive when he saw ...
  
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• Food in prisons is so bad that ramen is now the dominant currency among inmates - The Week Magazine

  22-08-2016 14:31
  
  The Week Magazine
  Food in prisons is so bad that ramen is now the dominant currency among inmates
  The Week Magazine
  Nutritious food is in such short supply in U.S. prisons that ramen noodles have actually overtaken tobacco as the dominant currency among inmates, The Guardian reports. "[Money] doesn't change unless there's some drastic change to the value in people ...and more »
  
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• SDSU Lags Behind Other Campuses in Helping Needy Students Access Food - Voice of San Diego

  22-08-2016 13:46
  
  Voice of San Diego
  SDSU Lags Behind Other Campuses in Helping Needy Students Access Food
  Voice of San Diego
  San Diego State has a hunger problem. In the course of the year, nearly 7000 SDSU students will not have enough to eat. Seven other Cal State campuses have built more extensive, multi-pronged programs that offer a wider range of on-campus services.
  
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• High-end pet food makers emphasize whole food, fresh ingredients - MLive.com

  22-08-2016 13:35
  
  MLive.com
  High-end pet food makers emphasize whole food, fresh ingredients
  MLive.com
  GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Your pet should eat as well as you do, say Jeff Brown and Peter Nielsen, the entrepreneurs behind Honey Creek Pet Foods, a high-end pet food company based in West Michigan. "I think everybody knows pets are not just pets anymore ...
  
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• Why USAID is looking to Silicon Valley for food security partners - Devex

  22-08-2016 13:17
  
  Devex
  Why USAID is looking to Silicon Valley for food security partners
  Devex
  A woman at her vegetable stall in a market in Ghana. The Bureau for Food Security is working in partnership with USAID's Global Development Lab to explore how tech entrepreneurs and investors might advance its efforts to promote global food security.
  
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• Not your usual food porn - Huffington Post

  22-08-2016 13:05
  Huffington Post
  Not your usual food porn
  Huffington Post
  2016-08-22-1471863273-4758057-Sausagepartytaco.jpg Photo: ENews! Unless you are into hot-dog-on-bun intercourse or pita-bread-on-bagel anal sex (and you may be, no judgment here), Sausage Party is probably not the movie for you. The whole plot ...
  
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• Slideshow: The families behind your favorite food and drink - CNBC

  22-08-2016 11:23
  
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  Slideshow: The families behind your favorite food and drink
  CNBC
  Do you eat to live or live to eat? For those fond of the finer things in life – from a sparkling glass of Champagne to a creamy clotted cream – CNBC's Lasting Legacy takes a look at family firms who have been producing world-class food and drink for ...
  
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• Smart PR or sustainability? Inside Target's $40 million food investment - GreenBiz

  22-08-2016 11:12
  
  GreenBiz
  Smart PR or sustainability? Inside Target's $40 million food investment
  GreenBiz
  Low-income patients at Los Angeles' Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center who are struggling with health conditions such as obesity and hypertension may be surprised this year when their doctors hand them "prescriptions" for free fruits and ...
  
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• Cities Hire Food Systems Experts To Address Obesity, Food Access - Civil Eats

  22-08-2016 11:04
  
  Civil Eats
  Cities Hire Food Systems Experts To Address Obesity, Food Access
  Civil Eats
  At least 22 cities, from Baltimore to Denver, have created leadership roles for change-makers focused on food. By Rachel Cernansky on August 22, 2016. Filed Under: Food Deserts, Food Policy. Subscribe. Tumblr Google +. Standing at the front of a dimly ...
  
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• The Deceptions of the GE Food Venture - CounterPunch

  22-08-2016 10:53
  
  The Deceptions of the GE Food Venture
  CounterPunch
  Although it purports to be based on solid science and the open flow of information on which science depends, the massive venture to reconfigure the genetic core of the world's food supply has substantially relied on the propagation of falsehoods.
  
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• Can we encourage healthier choices by the way we display food options? - OUPblog (blog)

  22-08-2016 10:35
  
  Can we encourage healthier choices by the way we display food options?
  OUPblog (blog)
  Founded in 1974, the Journal of Consumer Research publishes scholarly research that describes and explains consumer behavior. Empirical, theoretical, and methodological articles spanning fields such as psychology, marketing, sociology, economics, ...
  
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• Fairgrounds site of free Solano County food oasis event - Fairfield Daily Republic

  22-08-2016 10:13
  
  Fairgrounds site of free Solano County food oasis event
  Fairfield Daily Republic
  VALLEJO — The Solano County Fairgrounds will become a food oasis from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday as officials continue to push efforts to make fresh, healthy and affordable food more accessible in the county. The free event is designed to answer the ...
  
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• Sharing Juneau's food with visitors, one belly at a time - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  22-08-2016 10:08
  Sharing Juneau's food with visitors, one belly at a time
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  Juneau Food Tours features local food cart Deckhand Dave's panko-crusted salmon bites and scratch-made tartar sauce. Owner David McCasland said the Coho was just caught two days prior. Back | Next. Juneau Food Tours guide Elizabeth Arnett shows off ...
  
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• Lotus Bakeries enjoys growth organically, via M&A

  22-08-2016 09:51
  Lotus Bakeries reported a surge in first-half sales and earnings, attributing growth to rising international demand for its products and higher sales at its natural foods unit. 
  
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• Danish Crown to cut domestic jobs at Ringsted site

  22-08-2016 09:51
  
  Danish Crown, the meat processing co-operative, is to see around 120 staff leave their positions at a domestic plant.
  
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• Activists warn Australian toddler meals "too salty"

  22-08-2016 09:51
  Australian health campaigners have warned that prepared meals aimed at toddlers in the country are "too salty" and children are consuming their entire recommended daily intake of salt in a single meal. 
  
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• 2 Sisters Food Group 'to not cut pizza site jobs before January' - Unite

  22-08-2016 09:51
  
  2 Sisters Food Group will not cut jobs at a UK pizza plant facing the end of an own-label contract before the agreement expires in January, the Unite union has said.
  
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• Beston Global, MindChamps launch Kids Nutrition JV 

  22-08-2016 09:48
  Australian food group Beston Global Food Company (BFC) has entered into a 50-50 joint venture agreement with Singapore-based MindChamps Holdings to supply "fresh and nutritious food" to children at early childcare centres in Singapore and the Philippines. 
  
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• M+B art gallery puts on innovative food-based exhibition - Daily Bruin

  22-08-2016 09:22
  
  Daily Bruin
  M+B art gallery puts on innovative food-based exhibition
  Daily Bruin
  M+B gallery exhibit "Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish" features food-inspired works by 37 Los Angeles artists, including four created by UCLA alumni. (Courtesy of Ed Mumford). Share · Tweet. The specials on the menu at M+B art gallery include a ...
  
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• Germans Will Be Asked to Stockpile Food and Water 'in Case of a Catastrophe' - TIME

  22-08-2016 07:40
  
  TIME
  Germans Will Be Asked to Stockpile Food and Water 'in Case of a Catastrophe'
  TIME
  Germany is planning to urge its citizens to stockpile food, water and other supplies in the event of a catastrophe or armed attack. According to a report by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ...
  Germany may warn public to stockpile food and water in case of attack: ReportCNBC
  Germans may soon be required to keep 10-day stockpile of food in case of a
  
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• Florida company recalls 3 brands of meat/poultry products - Food Safety News

  22-08-2016 07:05
  
  Food Safety News
  Florida company recalls 3 brands of meat/poultry products
  Food Safety News
  A Florida company is recalling almost a ton of meat and poultry products including several varieties of empanada because they were produced with being inspected by the federal government. recalled poultry and meat products with bread. For photos of all ...and more »
  
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• FDA warns Hawaii seafood processor about handling of tuna - Food Safety News

  22-08-2016 07:05
  
  Food Safety News
  FDA warns Hawaii seafood processor about handling of tuna
  Food Safety News
  A seafood-processing facility in Honolulu was found to have “serious violations” of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations during a May 17 and 20 inspection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ahi-tuna406x250 ...and more »
  
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• Foster Farms names Flanagan president and CEO

  22-08-2016 07:00
  Foster Farms, a poultry producer, has announced that its board of directors has appointed Laura Flanagan president and chief executive officer effective Aug. 29, 2016.
  
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• Barry Callebaut joins cocoa farming partnership

  22-08-2016 07:00
  Barry Callebaut, a manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products, has entered a $9 million risk-sharing partnership with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, to cover up to 103,000 smallholder cocoa farmers in Cote d’Ivoire by 2020.
  
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• Farmers, food buffs promote Rocky Ford cantaloupes at cook-off - The Denver Post

  22-08-2016 06:25
  
  The Denver Post
  Farmers, food buffs promote Rocky Ford cantaloupes at cook-off
  The Denver Post
  Chef Gregory Sever, executive chef of MorningStar Senior Living, prepares samples of his chilled Hirakata Farms cantaloupe cream soup during the 5th annual Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Creations Cook-off at Little Man Ice Cream on Aug. 21, 2016 in Denver.
  
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• Food safety inspections, Aug. 21, 2016 - Santa Fe New Mexican

  22-08-2016 06:14
  
  Food safety inspections, Aug. 21, 2016
  Santa Fe New Mexican
  For the period ending Aug. 19. To file a complaint call the state Environment Department at 505-827-1840. LITTLE CAESAR'S, 3261 Cerrillos Road. Previous violations corrected. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in ...
  
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