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May 27, 2004

Bagged Salads #1 In Grocery Stores

The Ledger (FL): Grocers hope to lure customers with exotic greens because they are trying to expand on the success of other bagged greens, according to research from AC Nielsen, an international market research company. Customers willing to pay more...

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May 15, 2004

EU: Genetically Modified Food OK To Eat

San Jose Mercury News: The European Union's head office said Friday that it would approve a type of genetically modified corn for human consumption, ending a six-year biotech moratorium that the United States has challenged at the World Trade Organization....

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May 7, 2004

Low-Carb Impact Affecting Krispy Kreme

Yahoo! News: Could the Krispy Kreme doughnut be the latest victim of the low-carb diet craze? The Winston-Salem-based doughnut maker said Friday that it is cutting its profit projection for this year by 10 percent because of lower demand for...

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March 31, 2004

Low-Carb Revolution Shakes Food Industry

Louisville CourierPress: America's growing appetite for low-carbohydrate foods has left people like Tony Stallone struggling to keep pace with demand. A vice president at online grocer Peapod, Stallone already offers more than 300 low-carb products featured in a special "aisle"...

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March 18, 2004

Nestle Turns To 'Phood' For Growth

Wall Street Journal (subscription): With the industry facing stagnant sales growth, Nestle is looking for growth in the intersection of food and pharmaceuticals -- a niche of nutritionally enhanced products known in the business as "phood." The company is betting...

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March 9, 2004

More Complex Carbs + More Exercise = Greater Weight Loss

WebMD: The thinnest people eat the most carbs, a four-nation survey shows. If you've been following the latest U.S. diet fads, that isn't what you'd expect. But the data come from an intensive, four-nation study of more than 4,000 men...

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February 8, 2004

Low-Carb Impact

Times Dispatch: Restaurants everywhere are racing to put low-carb foods on their menus, as Americans turn en masse to the high-protein, low-carb lifestyle. Cheeseburgers and bunless burgers are rampant, as are buffalo wings and sour cream. But there are casualities,...

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February 4, 2004

High-Carb Foods In A Low-Carb Nation

New York Times: While only about 3.5 percent of Americans, or about 10 million people, are following a low-carb diet, about four times that many people have tried such diets within the last year, according to the NPD Group, a...

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January 11, 2004

Post Mad Cow: Examining Our Food Production System

New York Times: By the reductive logic that rules our food system, cannibalism should be as legitimate a way of eating as any other: it's all just protein, right? Yet the great unlearned lesson of B.S.E. and other similar brain-wasting...

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January 6, 2004

Mad Cow Forces Beef Industry to Change Course

New York Times: Jeffrey Behling, a dairy farmer in Washington State, used to burn the carcasses of his hobbled "downer" cattle until he found there was a market for their meat. Even so, selling damaged cows for human consumption never...

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November 23, 2003

Animals Cloned for Food No Longer Draw Collective Yawn

New York Times: ... But cloning is back. And this time, the F.D.A. and consumer groups are involved, asking, Is it safe to eat a clone? Can you safely drink a clone's milk? If you breed a clone, can you...

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November 1, 2003

UK organic food market set to boom

The Guardian Unlimited Sales of organic food and drink in the UK are expected to soar by almost 75% over the next few years, according to a report published today. Market analyst Datamonitor believes that the market will grow from...

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October 12, 2003

Low-Carb Could Spell Next Fast-Food Fight

Yahoo! News: Jeff Endervelt's interest in low-carbohydrate foods began as a personal quest when he experimented with the Atkins diet and spin-offs that helped him shed 20 pounds. As chief executive of Atlanta-based Blimpie International Inc., Endervelt saw a market...

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September 29, 2003

The Skinny On Trans Fatty Acids

Chemical & Enginerring News: Donuts, cookies, stick margarine, french fries, and other tasty treats contain significant amounts of trans fatty acids. For now, food producers don't need to specify how much of these artery-clogging fats are present in their products....

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September 16, 2003

Medical Journal Questions Herbal Remedies

Reuters: The editor of a leading U.S. medical journal called on Tuesday for tighter regulation of herbal remedies because of "potentially misleading" health claims made by distributors of the products. "Because many dietary supplements have or promote biological activity, they...

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September 10, 2003

Bull Market For Beef

NEPA News: Voracious consumer demand, supply shortages and a ban on Canadian beef prompted by the discovery of a single case of mad cow disease in Alberta in May have combined to propel beef prices into record territory....

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September 7, 2003

Islamic Foods Find Wider Audience

San Francisco Chronicle: Driven by the fast-growing Muslim population, halal foods -- often described as "kosher for Muslims'" -- are headed toward wider popularity. ... The surge has many people believing that the American halal food industry, now in its...

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September 2, 2003

Growth of Edamame (Soy)

iVillage: If you've been grocery shopping lately, you may have noticed something different-sounding among the frozen foods: edamame. Eda-what? Edamame (pronounced ay-duh-MAH-may) is the Japanese word for edible soybeans, and it's cropping up in the frozen section of supermarkets everywhere....

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August 26, 2003

RFID (Radio-Frequency ID Tags) Gussied Up With Biosensors

Wired News: Still stinging from failed attempts to introduce radio tags to consumers, retailers and their suppliers are now adding features to the technology to make it appear essential to the safety of the nation's food supply. ... But many...

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Researchers Seek to Trick Bitter Taste Buds

New York Times: The food industry, trying to offer healthier versions of popular foods without affecting the taste, is looking for new ways to trick the tongue. If it succeeds, grapefruit juice could be sweet without added sugar, and potato...

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August 25, 2003

Red Wine + Olive Oil = Long Life

CBC News: Red wine and olive oil may be some of the key ingredients for a long life, according to a new study. The findings provide more evidence the Mediterranean diet may be the secret to a long life. Scientists...

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August 24, 2003

Life-Extending Chemical Is Found in Certain Red Wines

Biologists have found a class of chemicals that they hope will make people live longer by activating an ancient survival reflex. One of the chemicals, a natural substance known as resveratrol, is found in red wines, particularly those made...

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August 13, 2003

WHO Says No to Farm Antibiotics

Wired Farmers worldwide should reduce the use of antibiotics in their livestock to help curb the growth of drug-resistant bacteria in humans, the World Health Organization reported. High-profile scares over the transmission of resistant forms of bacteria have become increasingly...

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August 12, 2003

Consumers Fight Obesity With Healthy Alternatives

MSN Money: Consumers nationwide are recognizing the severity of the obesity problem and migrating toward better-for-you products and "light, lean, low and less-of" brands. According to the newest issue of GMA/IRI Times & Trends, supermarket sales of better-for-you foods, which...

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July 31, 2003

Ex-tobacco farmers kick the habit and go organic

Environmental Magazine From the outside, this looks like any other barn tucked into a sleepy mountain hollow of Stickleyville, Virginia in the Appalachians. Rows of tobacco plants skewered on wooden poles hang like dry-cleaning from the rafters while all...

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Big Brands Pop Up in Organic Aisle

Contra Costa Times In a risky reversal of marketing tactics, some of the world's best-known packaged-food companies have planted their brand names smack-dab onto organic versions of their products. H.J. Heinz Co.'s Organic Ketchup hit supermarkets last year; in...

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GM vs. Organics is a Stark Choice

Ananova Former environment minister Michael Meacher says evidence of "massive" cross-contamination shows the UK must make a stark choice between growing organic or genetically-modified crops. Speaking on a tour of Canada, where organic farmers are suing biotech giants for spoiling...

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July 24, 2003

Organic Food Buyers Loyal, Non-Buyers Not Interested

Daily Research News New research recently released by ACNielsen U.S. shows that organic food buyers are extremely loyal to the category, and intend to keep buying, while non-buyers have virtually no interest in organic products. The study found that, of...

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July 23, 2003

Diet May Cut Cholesterol As Much As Drugs Do

Sceintific American Eating a diet similar to that of our ape ancestors can have as much of an effect on cholesterol levels as modern medicine does, a new study suggests. Results published today in the Journal of the American Medical...

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July 15, 2003

Biotech Residue Contaminates Organic Crops

DesMoines Register ... Genetically engineered corn and soybeans are becoming so widespread that organic growers - who count on selling their crops for two to three times as much as conventional varieties - say they are having trouble keeping biotech...

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F.D.A. Announces Label Requirement for Artery-Clogger

New York Times Food and Drug Administration will require food processors to include amount of artery-clogging trans fatty acids on nutrition labels; experts believe new requirement, which takes effect in 2006 and which does not apply to restaurants, will nevertheless...

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Food Makers Trim Fat as Lawsuits and Regulations Loom

New York Times Some food companies are recasting themselves as good corporate citizens alarmed at rate of obesity in US and willing to modify their offerings to help avert looming health care crisis; McDonald's Corp and Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo...

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July 11, 2003

The Lies Spoiling Organic Food

Business Week After a dozen years of hearings and deliberation, the U.S. Agriculture Dept. issued official standards for organic foods last October. And -- surprise, surprise -- a government agency actually did a pretty good job. For the first time,...

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July 10, 2003

FDA Mandates Transfat Levels

Discovery Health Channel Food manufacturers will soon be forced by law to show the levels of trans-fatty acids in their products, with the FDA announcing a bid to bring the unhealthy fats to consumers' attention "By putting trans-fat information on...

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July 1, 2003

You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Eat Kosher

New York Times: Sales of kosher foods -- foods that are prepared according to kashrut, the dietary regulations of Judaism -- have grown wildly over the last few years, largely because of new customers who buy them not for religious...

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Kraft to Revamp Products: Cites Obesity

Reuters: Kraft Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. maker of processed foods, on Tuesday said it would cap portion sizes, eliminate marketing in schools and reformulate some products as the food industry faces increasing legal blame for obesity and unhealthy eating...

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Mainstream Organic Foods

GreenBiz.com Whole Foods Market has announced that it is the first national grocer to have its retail operations designated as "Certified Organic" by Quality Assurance International. QAI's Organic Certification Program for Retailers verifies businesses handle organic goods according to stringent...

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June 20, 2003

McDonald's Asks Meat Industry to Cut Use of Antibiotics

New York Times: Responding to public health concerns about the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals, the McDonald's Corporation said today that it would ask its meat suppliers around the world to reduce their dependence on antibiotics. ... McDonald's said...

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Convenient Healthy Food

Food Production Daily: Convenience, health and innovation are once again the order of the day in the food and drink industry, as the latest visit to the Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD) shows. Breakfast cereal manufacturers are constantly looking...

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June 5, 2003

USDA issues new rules to prevent listeria in meat

Reuters Health Information: The U.S. Agriculture Department on Wednesday announced new rules for meat plants to help keep potentially deadly listeria bacteria from hot dogs, deli meats and sausage. The USDA stepped up its fight against the bacteria after being...

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