Intelligrated announced the appointment of Tom Tobin as senior sales manager for its Midwest regional operations. Based in the company’s Woodridge, Illinois office, Tobin helps lead business development efforts and manage the Midwest regional sales team.
MGP Ingredients, Inc. announced that all of the company’s food grade starches are now designated as Non-GMO Project Verified. Verified status is also in place for several of the company’s wheat proteins.
Consumers are reminded not to eat uncooked dough or batter made with raw flour.
August 1, 2016
Due to four new confirmed illnesses, General Mills is adding additional flour production dates to the previously announced U.S. retail flour recall that was originally announced on May 31, 2016.
The Barry Callebaut Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, and Tony’s Chocolonely, the Amsterdam-based chocolate company committed to bringing an end to slavery in the chocolate industry, announced their strategic partnership agreement to produce chocolate from fully traceable sustainable cocoa.
Global consumer packaged food and beverage company The WhiteWave Foods Company unveiled new sustainability commitments in the company’s 2014-2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
A newly formed milling company named New Mexico Milling will begin operations in Farmington, New Mexico in August of 2016, announced Bryan Ledgerwood, the President and CEO of New Mexico Milling.
To combat the widening workforce skills gap in baking and manufacturing, the American Bakers Association (ABA) and the American Society of Baking (ASB) earlier today released an anticipated and comprehensive multi-phase study – The Workforce Gap in U.S. Commercial Baking: Trends, Challenges and Solutions.