food industry

Badin High School wrapped up its annual Canned Food Drive, delivering 4,207 cans of food to St. Raphael's Food Pantry. "This is always a special two weeks because, for the students, it's a chance to accomplish something very substantive," said Teresa Heinrich, Badin's academic dean who helps oversee the effort on behalf of Student Council. "This year the need seems greater than ever," Heinrich added.  

Packaged foods company Pinnacle Foods Group is buying Birds Eye Foods, the nation's largest frozen food company, for $1.3 billion. As a result of the deal, a planned public offering of Birds Eye Foods stock will be withdrawn. Birds Eye Foods owns Snyder's of Berlin, the Somerset County potato chip company.  

Organizers for the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive are hoping to help many area families and are counting on the generosity of the Longview community, an event organizer said Friday. "We've approved 1,200 families to receive food boxes, and I expect them to all show up on Tuesday," Betty Horaney said. "People are really having a hard time this year."  

First and foremost, all day Saturday (9am-5pm), I'm in front of the CVS at Shattuck/Rose in Berkeley, supervising student volunteers who will be guilt-tripping encouraging shoppers to donate canned foods and Robert Parishibles to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. OptimistPrime and 67MARQUEZ have promised to stop by at some point, and not just because I informed them that if they did stop by I would match all the canned food donations but if they didn't stop by I would take cans out of the barrel and h  

Here at The Appetizer we're always interested in being on the cusp of consumer food culture, whether that means bringing you news of the seven-patty Whopper that Microsoft heralded in Japan to promote their new operating system, or our regular Shelf Life features that help you decide between the leading brands in a given packaged-food product category. That's why we were so excited this morning when we stumbled upon The Cereal Project , which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, and then some. Le  

With obesity rates rising, more people are becoming aware of what they eat. But there are some things to think about before you sit down for your next meal. According to WebEcoist , an eco-friendly website, there are some rather strange things in our food that could be unhealthy for us.

You can't protect yourself from, I guess, everything, right?   -Josh Duncan

 

A one day sensitization and information sharing seminar for the Media and Consumer Interest Groups, organized by the West Africa Quality Programme (WAQP), in collaboration with the National Codex / Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee (NCSPSC), was held on Wednesday 18 November, 2009 at the Paradise Suites Hotel. The objectives of the seminar are to create understanding among media and consumer associations of the work and output of the WAQP and the adopted standards and code of practice developed by the  

Radio personalities Mike and Mike of 94.5 plan to spend a lot of time at the Bangor Mall next week. In fact, they'll be camped out in the parking lot for the 11th annual Manna Food Drive. They'll be collecting non perishable foods to help fill the shelves at Manna Ministries.  

The charitable trust that controls Hershey Co. is pushing the chocolate maker to launch a rival $17 billion bid for Cadbury PLC that would be bigger and have more cash than what Kraft Foods Inc. has offered, said several people familiar with the matter. The trust, which in the past has complicated Hershey's merger efforts, is now seen by insiders and others on the deal as the aggressor for a purchase and prodding Hershey CEO David West to pursue a competing offer to the $16.5 billion bid Kraft made earli