The award, now in its eighth year, honors an individual, group or organization for demonstrating outstanding leadership directed at enhancing food safety within the dairy products industry.
January 26, 2024
Shumaker has worked with IDFA’s Food Safety Committee and the University of Wisconsin to determine various food safety and risk factors in cheese production.
Danone, General Mils and National Milk Producers Federation are also a part of this group.
January 16, 2024
Together, a group of 12 companies and trade groups are urging Congress to ensure WIC has the needed funds to ensure all eligible women, infants, and children who wish to enroll can be served by the program.
After a sustained period of fewer wars and the fact that fewer people went to bed hungry each night, our world is experiencing an intense period of heightened global conflict with serious geopolitical consequences, altering our nation’s security.
In an era of increasingly digitized food supply chains facilitating rapid communication all the way to consumers, it is crucial for government agencies to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape.
The focus now turns to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, which has jurisdiction over child nutrition issues. The Senate must consider and pass the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act by the end of the 118th Congress, or by January 3, 2025.
December 14, 2023
The bill would reintroduce whole (3.25% milkfat) and reduced-fat (2% milkfat) milk to school cafeterias, restoring the two most popular milk varieties to schools.
As our State of the Industry report, appearing last issue proves, milk sales are mixed compared to prior years. Total dairy milk sales totaled nearly $15.6 billion for the year ending Aug. 13.
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), led by President and CEO Michael Dykes, D.V.M., lauded the expansion of the HFMI program.
November 29, 2023
The program established by Congress in the 2018 Farm Bill and is one of the Department’s key nutrition incentive programs for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).