Top Retail Displays Unveiled In IPC's 2013 Potato Lover's Month Contest

Consumers weren’t the only ones professing their love for Idaho® spuds during the annual Potato Lover’s Month retail celebration in February. Supermarket chains and independent retailers alike submitted 4,049 entries in the Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) 2013 retail display contest – the highest total ever in the competition’s 22 years and more than double the average number of entries over the past eight years.

Marine Harvest Makes $1.69 Billion Bid For Rival Cermaq

Marine Harvest, the world's biggest fish farmer, said it would buy rival Cermaq in a deal worth $1.69 billion if it abandoned plans to buy Peruvian fishmeal firm Copeinca.

Colossal Shrimp Farm In Fellsmere, FL Breaks Ground On Facility

After six years of finding investors, property and a suitable location, officials from Florida Organic Aquaculture broke ground on its facility to cultivate “happy, healthy shrimp” meant to be sold to area restaurants and grocers.

Prime Food USA Recalls Latis Brand Herring Fillet In Oil

May 1, 2013 FDA

Prime Food USA, 50st & 1st Ave Building # 57, Brooklyn NY 11232, is recalling Latis Brand Herring Fillet "Antalja" in Oil and Latis Brand Herring Fillet in Oil with Spices due to contamination with listeria monocytogenes. Listeria can cause serious complications for pregnant women, such as stillbirth. Other problems can manifest in people with compromised immune systems. Listeria can also cause serious flu-like symptoms in healthy individuals.

AMSA Announces RMC Food Safety Symposium Speakers

The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is excited to announce that, Dr. Randy Huffman from Maple Leaf Foods; Janet Riley from American Meat Institute and Dr. Barbara Masters from Olsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman, and Matz Law Firm, will be the speakers in the AMSA 66th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) Food Safety Symposium sponsored by Purac, on Monday, June 17.