Lipid Nutrition has become a private limited liability company (B.V.) in its own right, part of Loders Croklaan Group (subsidiary of IOI Corporation Berhad, Malaysia).

Ben & Jerry's is expanding its Fair Trade Certified ice cream flavors, making it the largest ice cream and frozen food manufacturer to offer Fair Trade Certified ingredients.

BERKELEY, Calif.-Got Milk? is ready to get its big break on the Silver Screen. Beginning this month and running through the end of the year, the Got Milk? commercial series featuring cow-abducting aliens will run on over 1,700 movie screens in California.

MONROE, Wis.- Specialty cheesemaker Roth Käse marked its 15th anniversary last month with an open house featuring yodelers; a cheese, beer, wine tasting; and a tour of its newly expanded facilities.

Tasha Callister, a member of the Naval Air Services, based in Mayport, Fla., is the most recent winner of Ben & Jerry's "Do Us a Flavor" contest.

At the recent annual Farm Aid benefit event in Camden, N.J., Horizon Organic honored one of the company's family farmer partners, Scott and Traci Laing of Potsdam, N.Y. with the first annual HOPE Award.

Darigold and Wilcox in the Pacific Northwest, and Dallas-based Schepps Dairy are among the dairies that are now saying "no" to rBST.

Despite recently petitioned evidence of higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) concluded last month that organic milk does not provide significant health benefits over conventional.

Plans are being laid for the construction of another huge California cheese plant. American Dairy Parks, LLC, has set up a subsidiary, Blue Ribbon Cheese Company, which expects to break ground early next year on a $225 million plant to be located within 60 miles of Fresno. It would be operational by 2009.

Honoring Romania's past while meeting the demands of the present, a small cheesemaker, LaDorna, produces a sheeps milk cheese, using traditional methods in a thoroughly modern plant.