Schepps Dairy celebrated the re-opening of its blowmolding facility last month with Dallas Fire Department personnel, city officials, and company employees present for a ribbon cutting and check presentation.

Michael Foods Inc., the Minnesota-based company whose grocery brands include Crystal Farms and Simply Potatoes, said recently it has agreed to be acquired for about $1.05 billion by Thomas H. Lee Partners, a Boston private equity firm.

Following other fast food chains in developing healthier fare, Pizza Hut is introducing a lower-calorie pizza with half the cheese of the Dallas-based chain's Thin ‘N Crispy pizza. The new Fit ‘N Delicious pizza also has 25% less fat and 30 fewer calories per slic

A joint venture between Swedish-Danish dairy group Arla Foods and German sugar refiner Nordzucker AG has been cleared by the European Union.

The Natural Products Expo East show in held in Washington D.C. in September drew more than 20,000 attendees.

IDFA is offering four major tools in a fast-track program designed to help the dairy foods industry navigate the impending regulations under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, including facility registration, prior notice of imports, record keeping and administrative detention.

J. Mark HuffmanBioterrorism Act Looms Time is running short for dairy processors to meet new FDA rules under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. Meeting the rules, which govern how food

Walkouts and pickets failed to shutdown operations at WestFarm Foods in Washington state as this issue went to press.

Western operation expected to help grow markets.

The International Trade Commission has begun sending out detailed questionnaires to cheese manufacturers, asking about their use of milk protein concentrates (MPC), casein, caseinates and other dairy proteins in their production.