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Chemical Week Hosts Information Technology Conference for Global Chemical Industry

  8/25/2008 11:29:00 PM

chemical industry

Chemical Week's Information Technology Conference is specifically designed to help chemical company CIOs, CTOs and senior IT managers leverage IT to address the global challenges and opportunities facing the chemical industry. This year's program will also feature insights from a recent Chemical Week survey of chemical companies, in which 81% of companies surveyed stated that they...


Data Shows Bar Beverages Up 5% vs. 2007

  8/25/2008 11:05:00 PM

beverages

“While the 5% increase in bar beverage prices is not surprising based on trends in other restaurant segments, it’s the differences among various types of drinks that are interesting,” said Leslie Kerr, President of Intellaprice. “Soft drinks are up on average $.13, and top shelf margaritas are up $.79 on average.” Kerr noted that there were exceptions to this pattern. “We found that a...


Trend for energy infused food

  8/25/2008 9:29:00 PM

fast food, food industry, beverages

And Dakota Valley Products uses a patented process to manufacture natural, healthy seeds infused with caffeine, taurine, lysine, and ginseng. This is said to give twice the amount of energy as an energy drink without the added sugar.


Omega-3 reality check

  8/25/2008 9:25:00 PM

beverages, food industry

Market analysts like Frost and Sullivan continue to publish buoyant figures and point to the fact the industry remains in its infancy and that niche level sales and product withdrawals are to be expected as the industry finds its feet.


National Food Safety Education Month(R) Launches 2008 Spanish Training Materials

  8/25/2008 6:58:00 PM

food safety

- (Business Wire) WHAT. The free training materials for the upcoming National Food Safety Education Month are now available in Spanish and English. These materials are designed around the 2008 theme, “Take Action to Prevent an Allergic Reaction,” (Tome Medidas para Prevenir las Reacciones Alérgicas) and help operators reinforce the importance of reducing the incidence of food allergy...


Canada: Scrapping food-labelling approval is dangerous, says food industry

  8/25/2008 5:29:00 PM

food industry, food safety, chemical

Industry leaders call the move dangerous, but the Conservative government is trying to sell a controversial decision to scrap a food-labelling approvals system as a way to help companies "take the lead in fulfilling their responsibility for consumer protection," according to internal talking points obtained by Canwest News Service.


Draft food safety law tightens scrutiny of small producers, stalls

  8/25/2008 2:56:00 PM

food safety

China's small food factories, once outside the regulatory system, might be subject to specific local controls as a draft law on food safety has urged local legislatures to draw up factory safety measures.


Dalziel: Launch of NZFSA's wild food safety resour

  8/25/2008 9:31:00 AM

food safety

Speech: New Zealand Government. Hon Lianne Dalziel. Minister of Commerce, Minister for Food Safety,. Speech by Food Safety Minister Lianne Dalziel at the launch of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority's Wild Food Safety DVD and related resources.


NPC to read draft laws on food safety, recycling

  8/25/2008 8:14:00 AM

food safety

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, started a five-day session in Beijing Monday to review draft laws on food safety and recycling among other issues.


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