National Starch & Chemical has expanded its manufacturing capability for functional food starch ingredients for China and other high-growth Asian markets with a new state-of-the-art production facility in Shanghai, China.

Albany N.Y.-The New York Culinary Olympic team received silver and bronze medals at an International Culinary Olympics competition held in Germany recently. McCadam Cheese, based in Chateaugay, N.Y., is a

The Dallas Morning News reports that PepsiCo Inc., Purchase, N.Y., may be the latest soft drink player to test the waters in dairy-based beverages. The paper says that Pepsi has

Santa Claus was first in line recently to have his bone density screened at the Westfield Shoppingtown Galleria in Roseville, Calif. The free screenings were sponsored by CalciMilk, a new

President Bush has nominated Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns as Secretary of Agriculture. The conservative Republican began his career as an attorney after growing up on an Iowa dairy farm. If

Last summer's spike in raw milk prices affected small dairy companies the same way it affected the nation's largest processor, Dean Foods. Third quarter income for the Morton Grove, Ill.-based

The Food Products Division of National Starch and Chemical Company has changed its name to National Starch Food Innovation. The new moniker is said to reflect a company that has

CoolBrands International Inc., Markem, Ontario, has entered into four new brand license agreements for new frozen novelties it intends to distribute in the United States in 2005. The new brands

HP Hood LLC, will shutter the Kemps Foods plant in Lancaster, Pa., later this year as it consolidates its east coast ice cream operations at the plant in Suffield, Conn.

DELAVAN, Wis.-In school vending machines around the country, milk is beginning to replace soft drinks, and nowhere is the trend more pronounced than in Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin Milk