Month: June 2013

Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, has trained approximately 1,000 farmers from five cooperatives in the central and western regions of Cameroon in sustainable cocoa production, enabling them to become Rainforest AllianceCertifiedTM in just 10 months. This marks the first time that cocoa farmer cooperatives and not buying groups in Cameroon have achieved the independently verified Rainforest Alliancecertification. The group administrators received their official certificates which formalized their efforts. …

Red Star Yeast Company is pleased to announce that its yeast manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has received an “A” grade, for the third consecutive year, certifying it meets all food safety and quality management requirements under the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. The state-of-the-art plant produces Red Star® brand fresh yeast, in liquid, crumbled and blocks form, and inactive dry yeast that is brought to market by Lesaffre Yeast Corporation and is used by commercial bakers throughout North America. Red Star’s plant in Dothan, Alabama is also certified with an “A” rating by BRC. …

Sandwich eaters, lunch makers, meal planners, homemakers and, especially, all bread lovers, now have a few new reasons to celebrate. Chabaso Bakery, America's favorite artisan bread bakers, has introduced not one, not two, but five brand new hand-crafted artisan sandwich breads, each one specially flavored and slow-baked to provide a great new taste. …