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• Canada's Premium Brands Holdings unveils more acquisitions

  22-11-2017 20:20
  M&A-hungry, Canada-based food manufacturer Premium Brands Holdings has snapped up two more businesses and invested in another.
  
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• Water conservation can be a hard sell for processors

  22-11-2017 15:00
  
  While water conservation may not be as flashy as saving energy, it's an important component of not only sustainability efforts, but of protecting the bottom line.
  
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• Rogers Sugar consolidates Canada's maple syrup sector with Decacer acquisition

  22-11-2017 14:34
  Canada's Rogers Sugar has paid CAD40m (US$31.3m) to acquire Decacer, a Québec-based distributor of branded and private label maple syrup products.
  
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• Should Nestle buy Hain Celestial?

  22-11-2017 13:44
  Nestle was this week reportedly said to be eyeing a possible takeover bid for US natural and organic products group Hain Celestial - but would it be a shrewd move for the world's largest food maker? Andy Coyne reports.
  
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• Russia enforces temporary block on Brazil meat after finding banned feed additive

  22-11-2017 12:06
  Russia has temporarily blocked beef and pork imports from Brazil after finding the banned feed additive ractopamine in cattle breeding products this year.
  
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• Kitchen Gadget: Clip-on cups bring the party to your plate - LancasterOnline

  22-11-2017 12:04
  LancasterOnline
  Kitchen Gadget: Clip-on cups bring the party to your plate
  LancasterOnline
  But some of them are real klutzes. And a party full of people carrying precariously balanced dishes of food, with sauces that can drip over the edge, might make you fearful and not festive. These silicone cups, which clip on the edge of platters or ...
  
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• Business Is Booming for America's Survival Food King - Bloomberg

  22-11-2017 12:00
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  Business Is Booming for America's Survival Food King
  Bloomberg
  A year of natural disasters and nuclear threats has suburbanites turning to Wise Co.'s Aaron Jackson, just in case. By. Amanda Little. More stories by Amanda Little. November 22, 2017, 2:00 AM PST. On Monday, Sept. 25, five days after Hurricane Maria ...
  
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• Got Food Allergies? Add Milk To The Worries For Your Meal - Kaiser Health News

  22-11-2017 11:04
  Kaiser Health News
  Got Food Allergies? Add Milk To The Worries For Your Meal
  Kaiser Health News
  Since her son Matt was an infant, Lynda Mitchell knew he had a milk allergy. She controlled the symptoms by switching his baby formula. But when he was 1, Halloween proved horrifying. While trick-or-treating in a pumpkin costume, Matt grabbed a ...and more »
  
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• B&G Foods creates COO role for Kenneth Romanzi from WhiteWave

  22-11-2017 09:30
  US-based B&G Foods has created a new management position of chief operating officer and will bring Kenneth G. Romanzi in from WhiteWave Foods to fill the role.
  
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• B&G Foods creates COO role for Kenneth Romanzi from Danone

  22-11-2017 09:30
  US-based B&G Foods has created a new management position of chief operating officer and will bring Kenneth Romanzi in from Danone to fill the role.
  
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• Danish Crown buys into South African foodservice sector

  22-11-2017 09:23
  The Danish Crown subsidiary ESS-FOOD has acquired a majority stake in the South African foodservice business Overberg Food Distributors. 
  
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• Airline Food Conundrum – Paid Meals Winning Out Over Freebies - Skift

  22-11-2017 08:00
  Skift
  Airline Food Conundrum – Paid Meals Winning Out Over Freebies
  Skift
  Airline food isn't always tasty, but passengers probably shouldn't compare it to what they find in a restaurant. Delivering food to an aircraft is a logistical challenge, and it's amazing the system works as well as it does. — Brian Sumers. Share ...
  
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• An artist's food-porn illustrations that Instagrammers would be jealous of - Quartz

  22-11-2017 07:47
  Quartz
  An artist's food-porn illustrations that Instagrammers would be jealous of
  Quartz
  While visiting her sister in the UAE almost six years ago, Yasra Khoker was inspired by her niece and nephew. She liked the way they would spend hours after school copying pictures of dishes that appeared on menu leaflets. When Khoker returned to India ...
  
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• Thunder Responds to Holiday Hunger With Thanksgiving Food Drive - OKCThunder.com

  22-11-2017 07:33
  Thunder Responds to Holiday Hunger With Thanksgiving Food Drive
  OKCThunder.com
  Watching a mother's face perk up as he loaded her cart with frozen turkey along with a bag of the usual Thanksgiving fixings including veggies and stuffing, Patrick Patterson extended his arm for a send-off side hug. There was Raymond Felton holding ...
  
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• City Council approves food trucks - Times Daily

  22-11-2017 07:15
  City Council approves food trucks
  Times Daily
  FLORENCE — The City Council on Tuesday cleared the way for food truck vendors to operate on the rights of way. In a unanimous vote, the council amended the city code to allow the mobile vendors. Trucks may operate in most areas zoned for business, but ...and more »
  
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• Black Hawk offers food service manager, food handler training - Quad City Times

  22-11-2017 07:01
  Black Hawk offers food service manager, food handler training
  Quad City Times
  Black Hawk College will offer training for restaurant and food service workers at the college's Outreach Center in East Moline. In Illinois, all restaurant and food service workers must receive basic safe food handling training within 30 days of ...
  
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• Holiday-ish food events around Denver - The Know

  22-11-2017 05:34
  The Know
  Holiday-ish food events around Denver
  The Know
  Fans of Mario Kart and tacos will not want to miss Lola Coastal Mexican's Thanksgiving Eve Super Nintendo Mario Kart tournament and $20 all-you-can-eat taco bar. Separately, Mario Kart and unlimited tacos are pretty awesome, but combined, they are an ...
  
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• Popular food truck to pass out free Thanksgiving meals for Harvey survivors - KPRC Click2Houston

  22-11-2017 05:15
  KPRC Click2Houston
  Popular food truck to pass out free Thanksgiving meals for Harvey survivors
  KPRC Click2Houston
  CYPRESS, Texas - A well-known barbecue food truck will be passing out free Thanksgiving meals to Harvey survivors Wednesday morning. Since the storm hit, Brooks' Place BBQ has been collecting donations and dedicated Wednesdays to cook meals for ...
  
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• NYC food pantries struggling in days before Thanksgiving - New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

  22-11-2017 04:20
  New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
  NYC food pantries struggling in days before Thanksgiving
  New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
  BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn — Despite Bed-Stuy's growing reputation a gentrified hotspot for trendy bars and pricey real estate, the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger operates one of the largest and busiest food pantries in the city. The staff here ...and more »
  
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• Volunteers help the Billings Food Bank prepare for Thanksgiving Day - Billings Gazette

  22-11-2017 04:12
  Billings Gazette
  Volunteers help the Billings Food Bank prepare for Thanksgiving Day
  Billings Gazette
  Chefs and Cooks of Montana members David Maplethorpe, left, and Jim Carlson check turkeys as a meal for the needy on Thanksgiving is prepared in the Billings Food Bank Fortin Culinary Center on Monday. The group cooks meals for the Montana Rescue ...
  
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• Cranberry Scare Changed How Nation Inspects Food - Valley News

  22-11-2017 04:07
  Valley News
  Cranberry Scare Changed How Nation Inspects Food
  Valley News
  A story on the cranberry scare on the front page of The Washington Post on Nov. 15, 1959. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo. Previous; Next. Previous; Next. By Theresa Vargas The Washington Post. Tuesday, November 21, 2017. Print ...and more »
  
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• Here's how to avoid food-borne illnesses during the holidays - USA TODAY

  22-11-2017 03:55
  USA TODAY
  Here's how to avoid food-borne illnesses during the holidays
  USA TODAY
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A year ago Thanksgiving, roughly 800 to 1,100 people headed to Golden Ponds Restaurant and Party House for Thanksgiving dinner. Before long, 260 of them experienced stomach pain, cramping and diarrhea in what is quite likely the ...and more »
  
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• Justin Pugh is feeding offensive line pounds of Thanksgiving food - New York Post

  22-11-2017 03:17
  New York Post
  Justin Pugh is feeding offensive line pounds of Thanksgiving food
  New York Post
  Justin Pugh (left) is going to have 65 pounds of turkey at his house Friday. Charles Wenzelberg; Getty Images. More On: new york giants · New Giants acquisition only knows losing · Why the Giants are lock to cover against the Redskins · Sterling ...and more »
  
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• Seeds hold hidden treasures for future food - BBC News

  22-11-2017 01:43
  BBC News
  Seeds hold hidden treasures for future food
  BBC News
  More than 70,000 of the world's most precious seeds have been sent from the UK's Millennium Seed Bank to the Middle East, in its largest export to date. The consignment contains more than 50 wild relatives of cultivated crops, such as wheat, barley and ...and more »
  
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• Community Food Pantry brings hope to area residents at Thanksgiving - Beatrice Daily Sun

  22-11-2017 01:29
  Beatrice Daily Sun
  Community Food Pantry brings hope to area residents at Thanksgiving
  Beatrice Daily Sun
  Mike Harlan, Brad Thober, Jessi Damrow and Kenny Pospichal talk while unloading food donated from Neapco employees at the Beatrice Community Food Pantry on Tuesday. Sam Craig Daily Sun staff. Neapco. Buy Now. Neapco employees donated ...
  Pantries work to fill food needs in Lake, Porter countiesChicago Tribuneall 29 news articles »
  
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• How an Icelandic firm became a global food giant - BBC News

  22-11-2017 01:23
  BBC News
  How an Icelandic firm became a global food giant
  BBC News
  Hundreds of freshly caught cod are moving at pace down a conveyor belt, before automated paddles pop out to send the fish splashing, one by one, into storage tanks below. From there the cod, pulled from the cold water of the North Atlantic just a few ...and more »
  
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• The Baby Food Sector in New Zealand 2017

  22-11-2017 01:00
  The Baby Food Sector in New Zealand 2017, is an analytical report by GlobalData which provides extensive and highly detailed current and future market trends in the New Zealand market.
  
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