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Editor Crystal Lindell asks: how much room do consumer packaged goods companies have to increase their prices in response to more expensive gas? And what happens when things hit a tipping point?

Tate & Lyle, a global provider of food and beverage ingredients and solutions, announced that effective October 1, 2019 or as contracts allow, the Food & Beverage Solutions business in North America will implement price increases of up to 12 percent on specialty food starches, fibers, specialty and high intensity sweeteners, and stabilization and functional systems.

Growing demand for natural ingredients amongst consumers has only stimulated price volatility onto an already tinder-box market. Is there no end in sight regarding price increases?