Month: November 2013

Food Retail Industry Applauds Common Sense Menu Labeling Legislation

November 29, 2013 Food Marketing Institute

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) supports legislation (S.1756) introduced today by Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Angus King (I-ME) that directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt a common sense approach to implementing restaurant menu labeling. FDA’s current, proposed regulations go beyond the scope of the law (Sec. 4205 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), as well as all preceding state and municipal menu labeling laws, by capturing mainstream grocery stores, where 95 percent of the food products are already labeled. …

Metro's Local Purchasing Policy – 12 Suppliers Have Their Products Offered In Six Stores

November 29, 2013 METRO INC.

In keeping with the Local Purchasing Policy that it adopted last May 1st, Metro today announces the arrival in store of more than 75 new products from Lanaudière. In fact, as a result of the pilot project currently underway in that region, 12 local suppliers will have their products offered in four Metro and two Super C stores in that region. …

Dan’s Supermarkets Sold To SpartanNash; Name Change Expected

November 29, 2013 Staff Reporter, Forum News Service

Dan’s SuperMarket announced Friday that its two Dickinson locations have been sold to SpartanNash Co. …

Paramount Goes Head-To-Head With Its Own Success

November 29, 2013 John Cox, Bakersfield Californian

Delano-based Paramount Citrus this week kicked off a five-year, $100 million marketing campaign to persuade consumers to switch from Cuties to "Halos" — as in, "pure goodness," according to the new advertising tagline. …

International Fruit Growers Up In Arms Over Canadian-Designed GM Apple That Cannot Brown

November 29, 2013 Tristin Hopper, National Post

In test fields in New York and Washington state stand about 100 trees bearing the Canadian-designed Holy Grail of fruit science: an apple that cannot brown. But as the Arctic Apple wends its way toward final approval in both the United States and Canada, genetic-engineering alarmists and entrenched apple interests alike are increasingly framing the new fruit as a profane creation of perverted science. …