Rival conglomerates Unilever and Nestle are scrapping for their shares of China's ice cream market, even as competition increases from a number of new and established local players.

It looks like Coca-Cola has figured out what it wants to do with milk, and it's not Choglit.

The International Ice Cream Association (IICA), a constituent organization of IDFA, has petitioned FDA to modernize and improve federal standards governing the manufacture of ice cream and other frozen desserts.

Both Nestle and Dreyer's have said in recent weeks that they remain confident that their $2.8 billion merger will take place, perhaps as soon as mid-June.

President Bush last month restored organic food regulations when he signed into law a nearly $80 billion war spending bill.

Deciding an issue that has pitted milk producers against dairy processors, the U.S. Customs Service ruled in April that it would not reclassify certain milk protein concentrate (MPC) products and subject them to higher tariffs.

Sorrento Lactalis, Buffalo, N.Y., has created a fellowship at the School of Hospitality at San Diego State University.

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings said last month it cut around 950 jobs in its second quarter and plans to eliminate another 150 this year as a result of its $2.8 billion merger with Nestle SA's American unit.

Kohler Mix Specialties, White Bear Minn., is being sold by Michael Foods Inc. to Dean Foods.

The modified proposal to cut the nation's milk supply has been approved by members of the National Milk Producers Foundation.