During the "Tailoring Food Choices to Improve Health" symposium held at IFT, a panel of researchers highlighted factors that contribute to the ability to customize nutritional needs including not just age and gender, but disease risk, genetic profile, metabolic conditions and taste preferences.
Pierre's French Ice Cream Co., Cleveland, has adopted the squround container with new graphics for its retail French Ice Cream and Soft Frozen Yogurt product lines.
International Dairy Foods Assn. is working collaboratively with Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) and the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) on a program to promote new research demonstrating that dairy calcium helps prevent weight gain and helps burn fat.
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation announced last month that Dean Foods Co. has made a $1 million gift to help design and construct the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and to support the Dallas Theater Center.
Saputo Inc. grew profits by 8.4% last year even though lower U.S. cheese prices and a stronger Canadian dollar contributed to a decline in revenues, the company said recently.
In an effort to improve the competitive position of the state's dairy farmers, Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff will form a statewide Dairy Task Force to review and strengthen Pennsylvania's dairy industry.
For the 10th annual Dairy 100, Dairy Foods solicited the top companies in the industry through emails, faxes, and phone calls. In cases where the company did not wish to divulge dairy-specific sales figures, estimates were made using financial report information, and industry experts. The sales figures are for dairy products or products dairies could make. That means juice and non-dairy creamers are counted, but pizzas, pickles and coffee are not.