Children’s nutrition, food safety, cleaner labels and affordable ingredients that will enable food manufacturers to create flavorful products with less sugar, sodium and no gluten or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were just some of the food issues addressed at the 2012 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo, June 25-28, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
PACK EXPO International 2012—Oct. 28-31 at McCormick Place in Chicago—will feature The Brand Zone, an area dedicated to the latest material and container innovations.
Rudolph Foods Co. Inc., Lima, Ohio, a manufacturer of pork rinds and private- and branded-label snack products, has expanded into the restaurant segment. Rudolph Foods is bringing pellets and pork rinds to casual dining, quick-service and upscale restaurants, as well as food trucks, across the nation. The company’s pork rinds will make their debut in restaurants in summer 2012.
The global ingredients supplier is opening a new state-of-the-art 110,000-sq.-ft. center in suburban Chicago designed to facilitate customer collaboration and accelerate innovation in specialty food ingredients.
The American Bakers Association, Washington, D.C., welcomes Maureen Linder, Pepperidge Farm; Erin Sharp, The Kroger Co., John C. Campbell II, Chattanooga Bakery; and Dave Murphy, Mother Murphy's Laboratories, as new members of its board of directors. The new members will join the board on June 14.
Last week, the American Bakers Association (ABA) urged the U.S. Senate to vote in favor of an amendment to the Agriculture Food, Farm and Jobs Act, or the Senate Farm Bill, reforming the current U.S. sugar program.
The Minneapolis-based company appoints David Dudick upcoming president of its General Mills Bakeries & Foodservice business segment, succeeding current president John Machuzick, who will retire from the company on Aug. 1.
Kraft Foods wants more of China’s snack food market so will try to accommodate more of the country’s local tastes with things like birthday-cake-flavored cookies, beef stew-flavored crackers and other flavors unusual to Americans in hopes of bumping up its trailing position with the world’s largest group of snackers.
Sara Lee Corp. says Hillshire Brands Co. is the new name for its North American business that will be spun off later this month. Sean Connolly, current CEO of Sara Lee North American Retail & Foodservice will become CEO of Hillshire Brands.
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