The National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Va., has turned to social media to revitalize the Real Seal, which identifies foods made with milk from U.S. dairy farms. It is pushing back against foods made from grains, vegetables, plants and nuts and have usurped dairy designations like milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream.

Virginia Dare, Brooklyn, N.Y., and China’s We-e Flavors formed a joint venture to establish a new full service flavor company based in Shanghai.

Shamrock Farms, Phoenix, said in March it is building a $50 million state-of-the-art dairy manufacturing facility in August County, Virginia.

Robertet appointed Julian Dabrowski as research chef; Stephen M. Olyha is the new chief operating officer of Autocrat; specialty enzyme manufacturer Biocatalyst announces staff changes.