MOM's Organic Market, a homegrown organic grocery chain in the Washington/Baltimore metro area founded in 1987, is launching a new environmental company-wide initiative: Battle the Bottle. Battle the Bottle
Migration of the controversial plastics additive bisphenol-A (BPA) from cans into food “is very low and poses no health or safety concerns to the general population,” according to a
Demand for U.S. foodservice packaging is forecast to climb 2.3% per year to nearly $8 billion in 2014, according to a new study from The Freedonia Group, Foodservice Packaging: Bulk &
PMMI, the producer and owner of Pack Expo, and the American Meat Institute (AMI), sponsor and producer of the International Meat, Poultry and Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition, have announced
In a merger of two prominent names in automation, Motoman Inc. is combining with Yaskawa Electric America Inc. Motoman, the second-largest robotics company in America, will form the Motoman Robotics
In the wake of the recent recall of E. coli-tainted romaine lettuce, the nation's oldest consumer organization, the National Consumers League is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to
A Canadian municipal composting program is telling consumers not to place SunChips bags in composting bins because they take too long to break down. SunChips, from the Frito-Lay unit of
Although interest in active and intelligent packaging is growing, a survey of food and beverage industry executives found that 57.3% of respondents were not at all aware or slightly aware
Food shoppers are increasingly hunting bargains, recipes and more in cyberspace, and mobile phones are a growing part of the phenomenon, according to a new Deloitte survey. The consulting firm’s
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is standing by her bid to ban controversial plastics additive bisphenol-A (BPA) from American food packaging. Feinstein added a BPA ban to the Food Safety