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Early bloomers

Yogurts capture 4 spots on IRI’s list of 2014 New Product Pacesetters: Top 10 Food and Beverage Brands

Five foods from restaurants crossed over to retailing to achieve New Product Pacesetter status.

April 25, 2015

New yogurt products from Chobani, Dannon and General Mills (Yoplait) were among the 10 best new products to hit retail shelves in 2014, according to IRI.

Food safety

Blue Bell Ice Cream voluntarily recalls all of its products due to potential Listeria contamination

“At this point, we cannot say with certainty how Listeria was introduced to our facilities and so we have taken this unprecedented step,” says the CEO.

April 21, 2015

Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling all of its products currently on the market made at all of its facilities including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Only the best

World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest seeks judges

Join head judge Marianne Smukowski of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research in evaluating cheese, ice cream, milk and other dairy foods and beverages.

April 18, 2015

The Wisconsin Dairy Products Association has issued a call for judges for its championship dairy product contest.

R&D

Nestlé shows how protein helps to lose fat, build muscle

April 15, 2015

Scientists from the Nestle; Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland, wanted to find out how to promote weight loss in obese older adults while avoiding loss of muscle mass.

IDFA hosts milk conference, dairy show

April 14, 2015

Fairlife CEO Steve Jones is the keynote speaker at the International Dairy Foods Association’s Milk and Cultured Dairy Products Conference, May 19 to 20. He will speak on “New Frontiers in the Dairy Case.”

Rabobank says U.S. producers are ‘not out of the woods’

April 13, 2015

The bank sees slowing growth in supply, better consumption growth and stronger buying elsewhere, helping to offset the weakness of China and Russia.

Dairy supplier news

TIC Gums and Cornell University award 2015 Ice Cream University winner

April 12, 2015

An Italian-inspired Holy Cannoli ice cream, created by a Maryland high school student was the winner of TIC Gums/Cornell University’s Ice Cream University.

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