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• Fast food workers to rally against Puzder as labor secretary - New York Daily News

  26-01-2017 19:56
  
  New York Daily News
  Fast food workers to rally against Puzder as labor secretary
  New York Daily News
  President Trump (from l.) and Vice President Pence walk with Labor Secretary-designate Andy Puzder on Nov. 19 at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Carolyn Kaster/AP). Ginger Adams Otis. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Thursday ...and more »
  
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• Red Sesame food truck finds permanent home - Cincinnati.com

  26-01-2017 19:09
  
  Cincinnati.com
  Red Sesame food truck finds permanent home
  Cincinnati.com
  UNION TWP. – It was a marriage made in culinary heaven. Red Sesame Korean BBQ/Taco, long operating out of a food truck, was looking for walk-in customers at its new and first-ever restaurant in Jungle Jim's International Market, located at 4450 ...
  
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• Food hall trend coming Downtown with plan for Oxford Market - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  26-01-2017 19:05
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Food hall trend coming Downtown with plan for Oxford Market
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Cities like New York and Chicago have been bubbling with trendy food halls featuring specialty chefs, sit-down restaurants, and vendors. Now one is coming to Downtown Pittsburgh. Oxford Market — a marketplace that will offer restaurants, chef ...
  
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• Enjoy A Messy Feast: The Calçotada Food Festivals Of Catalonia - Forbes

  26-01-2017 19:04
  
  Forbes
  Enjoy A Messy Feast: The Calçotada Food Festivals Of Catalonia
  Forbes
  In Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia, less than elegant calçotada eating rituals are underway. For the next few months residents will grill a variety of sizable and tender spring onions—calçots—over roaring fires and wood burning stoves, then ...
  
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• Pizza Soup: The Ultimate Winter Comfort Food? - Parade

  26-01-2017 18:45
  
  Pizza Soup: The Ultimate Winter Comfort Food?
  Parade
  It's January, and it's pretty ugly out there. Thinking of calling out for a pizza? Why not go for something even more winter-appropriate, filling and comforting—this pizza soup! It's got all the flavors you love, plus a ton of ooey-gooey melted cheese ...
  
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• Filipino Food With Subtlety, and a Splash of 7Up, at FOB - New York Times

  26-01-2017 18:42
  New York Times
  Filipino Food With Subtlety, and a Splash of 7Up, at FOB
  New York Times
  At F.O.B., the shrimp arrive in full armor, with kinked feelers and eyes like capers. Shucked, they taste as if bred on garlic, butter and soy: delicious and familiar. What makes the dish Filipino — what draws a line from this restaurant in Carroll ...
  
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• Unfamiliar Flavors Spice Up Food World In 201705:50 - Here And Now

  26-01-2017 18:21
  
  Here And Now
  Unfamiliar Flavors Spice Up Food World In 201705:50
  Here And Now
  (l-r) Omnivore Vulcano Ginger Hot Sauce, Blackberry Farm Ramp Kraut, Pok Pok Som Thai Basil Drinking Vinegar, Neococoa Black Sesame Seed Brittle, Hummustir Hummus on Demand, Runamok Maple Syrups (Boubon Barrel-Aged and Cardamom ...
  
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• Gay Lea Foods forecasts growing sales, profitability in 2017

  26-01-2017 18:16
  Gay Lea Foods, the Canada-based dairy cooperative, expects to see its sales and profitability improve in 2017 after "record" numbers last year.
  
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• Microbe that causes food poisoning exerts a sort of mind control over mice - Science Magazine

  26-01-2017 18:08
  
  Science Magazine
  Microbe that causes food poisoning exerts a sort of mind control over mice
  Science Magazine
  When we have food poisoning, the last thing we want to do is eat. But in mice, a microbe that causes this ailment actually increases appetite, a new study reveals. Researchers say they might be able to use the same trick to increase eating in cancer ...and more »
  
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• ABP Food Group promotes Finbarr McDonnell to COO

  26-01-2017 18:08
  
  Ireland-based meat processor ABP Food Group has promoted Finbarr McDonnell to the position of COO, replacing Frank Stephenson, who is now the company's CEO.
  
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• Fast food worker accused of smearing menstrual blood on burger - New York Daily News

  26-01-2017 17:27
  
  New York Daily News
  Fast food worker accused of smearing menstrual blood on burger
  New York Daily News
  A Mississippi fast food worker at a Jack's restaurant is now in police custody after being accused of contaminating food. Sky Juliett Samuel, 18, allegedly smeared her saliva and menstrual blood on a burger before selling it to a customer in the drive ...
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  Cops: Employee Charged With Tainting FoodThe Smoking Gun
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• Unilever's plan to grow in 2017 - 6 things to learn

  26-01-2017 16:54
  Unilever delivered sluggish sales but stronger-than-expected margins when it reported its full-year results today (26 January). The company's revenue was buffeted by issues like demonetisation in India and economic crisis in Brazil during the tail-end of 2016. While management believes such headwinds will lead to a slower start to 2017 - an outlook that hit Unilever's shares today - the group does expect things to pick up as the year progresses. just-food take a look at Unilever's strategy for g
  
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• 5 Food Trends To Look For When You're Watching The 2017 Super Bowl's TV Ads - Forbes

  26-01-2017 15:44
  
  Forbes
  5 Food Trends To Look For When You're Watching The 2017 Super Bowl's TV Ads
  Forbes
  Yes, Super Bowl LI is coming — and so are all of the TV commercials that we love seeing during the Super Bowl game — and will be sick of in a few weeks, after the 13,000th viewing. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images). Maybe you've heard. The Super ...and more »
  
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• Hochdorf 2016 sales flat amid low milk prices

  26-01-2017 15:16
  Swiss dairy and infant nutrition group Hochdorf said today (26 January) it maintained its level of sales in 2016 in line with the prior year's performance "despite difficult market and milk price conditions".
  
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• Pour Taproom opens with food from Homegrown restaurant - Asheville Citizen-Times

  26-01-2017 15:14
  
  Asheville Citizen-Times
  Pour Taproom opens with food from Homegrown restaurant
  Asheville Citizen-Times
  At the new Pour Taproom in Biltmore Village, which hosts its grand opening this weekend, you may have your beer in a glass or in your soup. That's because the self-service tasting room, which recently moved to 2 Hendersonville Road from 800 Haywood ...and more »
  
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• Amid the fast food delicacies, homage to their last act - San Francisco Chronicle

  26-01-2017 15:07
  
  San Francisco Chronicle
  Amid the fast food delicacies, homage to their last act
  San Francisco Chronicle
  The Winter Fancy Food Show was only a couple of blocks away, and since food — fancy or plain — is always a draw, I went over there for research and lunch on Monday, Jan. 23. An hour doesn't do it justice. Fourteen hundred exhibitors from all over the ...and more »
  
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• In Wards 7 and 8, Feeding the Food Insecure is a Team Effort - Washington City Paper

  26-01-2017 15:05
  
  Washington City Paper
  In Wards 7 and 8, Feeding the Food Insecure is a Team Effort
  Washington City Paper
  Illustration by Stephanie RudigTake two hypothetical District residents who need groceries. One lives in the Cascade Park Apartments in Southeast and doesn't have access to a car. To reach the only full-service grocery store in her ward (a Giant in the ...
  
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• Exclusive: Hungryroot Raises $7.7 Million to Make Sinful Food Healthier - Fortune

  26-01-2017 15:02
  
  Fortune
  Exclusive: Hungryroot Raises $7.7 Million to Make Sinful Food Healthier
  Fortune
  Ben McKean thinks comfort food can be guilt-free, and his company just raised another $7.7 million to prove it. McKean founded Hungryroot in 2015, sensing an opportunity to use plant-based ingredients to make healthy, easy-to-prepare versions of ...
  
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• Lancaster Colony H1 profits up despite flat sales

  26-01-2017 14:56
  
  Lancaster Colony, the US flatbread-to-dressings group, today (26 January) booked higher first-half earnings despite sales being flat year-on-year.
  
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• Mead Johnson admits 2017 underlying sales could fall

  26-01-2017 14:26
  
  Mead Johnson, the US infant formula business, said today (26 January) its underlying sales - its top-line number excluding the impact of exchange rates - could decline in 2017.
  
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• Daisy Brand to expand Ohio dairy facility

  26-01-2017 14:10
  US-based dairy manufacturer Daisy Brand is to expand its facility in Wooster, Ohio, including the construction of a 100,000 sq ft plant to house several new packaging lines.
  
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• Seneca Foods 9M sales inch up, one-time effects hit profits

  26-01-2017 13:53
  
  US canned produce supplier Seneca Foods has reported a slight rise in nine-month sales after a change in the terms of its contract with General Mills hit its third-quarter revenue.
  
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• Kraft Heinz-Oprah Winfrey JV plans ready-to-eat line

  26-01-2017 13:31
  Kraft Heinz has launched a joint venture with US talk show host and media magnate Oprah Winfrey called Mealtime Stories to "make real, nutritious products more accessible to everyone".
  
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• Mead Johnson launches "allergy-friendly" formula in Czech Republic, Slovakia

  26-01-2017 13:30
  
  Mead Johnson is rolling out an infant formula in Czechia and Slovakia said to help children with a "severe" allergy to cow's milk protein.
  
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• Italy sets date for introduction of dairy origin labels

  26-01-2017 13:20
  Milk and dairy products on sale in Italy must carry origin labels from 19 April, the country's government has announced.
  
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• ICE agent raided Korean restaurant in exchange for free food from rival, lawsuit claims - Washington Post

  26-01-2017 13:17
  
  Washington Post
  ICE agent raided Korean restaurant in exchange for free food from rival, lawsuit claims
  Washington Post
  In July 2013, Department of Homeland Security investigators raided a popular Las Vegas Korean supper club, detaining its employees for intense hours-long interrogations. According to a lawsuit, they were acting under orders of an Immigration and ...
  
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• Natra CEO Juan Dionis Trenor resigns for "personal reasons"

  26-01-2017 12:42
  The CEO of Spain-based confectioner Natra, Juan Dionis Trenor, has resigned for personal reasons, the company has announced.
  
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• WNBA players starting to invest in food industry - MyAJC

  26-01-2017 12:04
  
  MyAJC
  WNBA players starting to invest in food industry
  MyAJC
  Michael Dwyer/AP In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, owner Dylan Welsh poses in Worden Hall restaurant in Boston. Welsh said Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, of the WNBA, is a long-time friend and co-investor in his restaurants. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer).and more »
  
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• Finally a coordination hub! Announcing Further with Food - Natural Resources Defense Council

  26-01-2017 12:02
  
  Finally a coordination hub! Announcing Further with Food
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  Ever since launching my Wasted report in 2012, I have found myself in the middle of an exciting firestorm of interest on how to get America and Americans to waste less food. From policymakers to school teachers to large retailers to aspiring ...
  
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• Kraft Heinz, Oprah form joint venture to develop new line of food products - CNBC

  26-01-2017 11:56
  
  CNBC
  Kraft Heinz, Oprah form joint venture to develop new line of food products
  CNBC
  Heinz ketchup maker Kraft Heinz and media mogul Oprah Winfrey said on Wednesday they would form a joint venture to develop a new line of food products in the United States. The joint venture, Mealtime Stories, will initially make ready-to-eat ...and more »
  
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• Moy Park NPD targets convenience snacking

  26-01-2017 11:53
  Moy Park, the UK meat processor owned by Brazil's JBS, is launching a ready-to-eat Good to Go range of snacks, its latest attempt at taking a bite of its domestic meat snacks category.
  
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• Kerry Group staff in Ireland plan one-day walkout

  26-01-2017 10:24
  Workers at Ireland-based Kerry Group are to stop work for one day on 30 January in a row over proposed changes to terms and conditions of employment centred on the production of the firm's Cheestrings product.
  
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• Unilever signs sustainable palm oil agreement with Indonesia

  26-01-2017 09:02
  Unilever has signed a three-year "produce and protect" agreement with regional authorities in Indonesia to support a jurisdictional approach for sourcing sustainable palm oil at village level. 
  
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• Unilever focuses on margin as pressure mounts

  26-01-2017 08:55
  
  Unilever has indicated it will focus on margin acceleration in the coming year as it delivered lower sales but higher earnings against a backdrop of "severe economic disruptions" in 2016. 
  
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• Parmalat books preliminary FY revenue rise

  26-01-2017 08:17
  Italian dairy group Parmalat has said preliminary full-year results for 2016 reaffirm its guidance of a 5% increase in net revenue and more than 17% for EBITDA compared with the previous year.
  
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• USDA announces stricter animal welfare rules for organic eggs, meat`

  26-01-2017 07:00
  According to the Associated Press, organic meat and egg producers will have to abide by stricter animal welfare standards under a new rule announced by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) before President Trump took office.
  
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• Regional, world flavors to take center stage in 2017

  26-01-2017 07:00
  Bell Flavors & Fragrances has revealed its 2017 Spark trends for flavors in the U.S. market. This year’s flavor discoveries are all about going deeper into regional and localized food, coupled with upcoming and interesting world flavors to appease curious palates.
  
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• McCormick named No. 1 most sustainable in food products industry

  26-01-2017 07:00
  McCormick garnered the rank of No. 14 in the 2017 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations Index at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and took the No. 1 ranking in the food products industry.
  
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• Growing higher yield, tastier strawberries

  26-01-2017 07:00
  Research from Kansas State University Olathe may help Kansas growers increase strawberry production in the state, extend the growing season, and grow berries that are more nutritious and flavorful.
  
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• FSA finds British may consume too much acrylamide

  26-01-2017 07:00
  The U.K.’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released results from its Total Diet Study (TDS) that shows that people in the United Kingdom may currently consume higher levels of the chemical than is desirable.
  
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• Eating hot peppers may decrease mortality

  26-01-2017 07:00
  A study published in PLoS ONE shows that consumption of hot red chili peppers may be associated with a reduction in total mortality—primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke.
  
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• Community Food Bank receives generous gift from local company - KFSN-TV

  26-01-2017 06:58
  
  Community Food Bank receives generous gift from local company
  KFSN-TV
  With the help of Granville Homes, the Community Food Bank received a generous gift that could go a long way in helping the needy. (KFSN). KFSN. Thursday, January 26, 2017 12:43AM. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --. With the help of Granville Homes, the ...and more »
  
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• A Food Desert In Paradise - GOOD Magazine

  26-01-2017 02:48
  
  GOOD Magazine
  A Food Desert In Paradise
  GOOD Magazine
  On September 11, 1992, Hurricane Iniki battered the northernmost island of Hawaii. With 145-mph winds and 30-foot storm surges, it was the most disastrous hurricane ever to strike the state. It flattened fields of sugarcane, shut down the tourism ...
  
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• How to Manage Your Love-Hate Relationship With Free Office Food - Greatist

  26-01-2017 02:14
  
  Greatist
  How to Manage Your Love-Hate Relationship With Free Office Food
  Greatist
  My coworkers often announce that they intend to eat "just half" of something. They usually make this pronouncement to no one in particular, while breaking off part of a cookie or bisecting a slice of cake. Today, however, my colleague held up half a ...
  
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