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If there’s a universal truth we can all count on, it’s that America’s three favorite ice-cream flavors will always be vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Right? Wrong. Per the International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C., our top three picks last year were vanilla, chocolate and butter pecan.

Seven years ago Tim and Roy Koons-McGee opened up one ice cream parlor in Louisville, Ky. This year they are on pace to have 11 scoop shops and 300 grocery stores carrying pints of their super-premium ice cream.

Sargento Foods, Plymouth, Wis., added another snacking cheese option to its line with Snack Bites

Ice cream retailer Baskin-Robbins invited the media to sample new flavors and flavor combinations that will appear in stores this summer.

If Frank Otis could add four to five days more shelf life to his organic milk, it would mean a world of difference. The CEO of Crystal Creamery, Modesto, Calif., said he could then service accounts in Los Angeles, 300 miles to the south.

Cave-aging cheese adds value. But when a cheesemaker doesn’t have the space or the time to age its own cheese, it turns to an outside service. Meet Standard Market of Westmont, Ill.

In anticipation of the long-discussed Food Safety Modernization Act finally becoming enforceable in September, we asked equipment suppliers about the role pumps and valves play in assuring food safety in dairy processing plants. Here’s what they had to say about this subject in our virtual roundtable.