Snack Patrol’s Cheese Jerky Offers The Previously Impossible

January 18, 2010 Snack Patrol, LLC

Cheese Jerky combines two snack favorites, string cheese and beef jerky, into one unique product.

Parkers Farm Expands Earlier Recall To Include All Of Its Products

January 18, 2010 FDA

Parkers Farm is expanding its recall of products to include all date codes because of potential contamination with listeria monocytogenes. Recalled products were distributed nationwide in the following retail stores: Hy-Vee, Cub, Rainbow, Byerlys, Lunds, Target, Whole Foods, Jewel, Dominicks, Marsh, Price Chopper, Shop Rite, Nash Finch, Sams Club, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Wal-Mart, Aldi.

Robust King Cake Sales Are Good For The Bakery Business

The traditional start for the king cake season is Jan. 6, Kings Day, also called Twelfth Night or the Epiphany. With a slightly longer season between Christmas and Mardi Gras this year compared to last year, King Cake business seems to be looking up.

Cookie Dough Shortage Possible As Nestle Uses Anti-E. Coli Treatment

January 18, 2010 Elizabeth Weise, USA Today

Nestl announced Wednesday that it will begin using heat-treated flour in
its refrigerated doughs, a move intended to make Nestl refrigerated cookie doughs even safer, but that may result in a temporary shortage of the popular tubes.

Safeway Launches Haiti Disaster Relief Initiative

Safeway Foundation gives $100,000 to American Red Cross and UNICEF to aid in the humanitarian relief efforts.