Colombian Ambassador Meets With South Florida Flower Importers
The ambassador of Colombia to the United States met with floral workers in South Florida advocating for passage of a free trade agreement. …
Month: August 2011
Excellent Packaging & Supply's Biodegradable Container Stays Strong, Even With Hot & Moist Foods
Excellent Packaging & Supply, an innovator and wholesale distributor of sustainable, biodegradable, and nature-based packaging for foodservice and other applications, has added Ingeo® biopolymer-lined clamshell containers to its line of BagasseWare® pulp-based foodservice products. These new products address a problem that has long frustrated operators of cafeterias, restaurants and to-go- establishments: the tendency of bio-based containers to soften and lose their structural integrity when serving hot and moist food. …
Spartan Unveils School Lunch Roll Out At 3rd Annual Fresh Experience Expo
Spartan is rolling out school lunches in clear, plastic containers with handles. For $3.99, a lunch may contain a chicken tender wrap, chips, carrots, juice and a fruit snack. …
Vermont Farmstead Cheese Wins Gold At The LA International Dairy Competition
Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company was awarded three Gold Medals at the Los Angeles International Dairy Competition announced August 9, 2011. Gold was awarded to BrickHaus Tilsit in the havarti category, WindsorDale in the open class hard cheese, and AleHouse Cheddar in the flavored hard cheese category. …
Organic Valley Announces Generation Organic "Who's Your Farmer?" 2011 Tour
Organic Valley, America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation’s leading organic brands, today announced the Generation Organic™ 2011 “Who’s Your Farmer?” Tour, which will kick off at Organic Valley headquarters in La Farge, Wis. on September 26 and wind its way through the Pacific Northwest, wrapping up at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Ca. on October 17. …
