No matter how advanced mapping apps become, they can’t tell you where to go unless you know where you are to begin with, just as those in the food supply chain must assess their operations before they can plan a route to a new food safety environment. That new environment, mandated by the Food Safety…
Kraft Recalls String Cheese That May Spoil Early
Kraft Foods Group is voluntarily recalling some of its Kraft and Polly-O String Cheese and String Cheese Twists products because of concerns that the products may spoil before their listed expiration dates. The 735,000 cases the affected product were shipped to customers across the U.S. and have “Best When Used By” dates from Oct. 25…
Millions Spent Lobbying Food Safety
The Senate recently updated its lobbying disclosure database with second quarter spending information. The documents available through the database reveal which organizations are spending what–and where their money is focused.
The Senate Website is set up so that you can easily search for companies lobbying on behalf of a particular subject like food safety. Anyone …
Kraft, Subway, Starbucks to Cut Salt
Big Apple Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is enlisting the food industry in his National Salt Reduction Initiative one company at a time.
Both restaurants and packaged food companies are signing up for the challenge of reducing sodium in their products by 20 percent over the next five years.
The National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI), a …
Kraft Canada Recalls Tartar Sauce
The wrong label–one not disclosing that egg is an ingredient–has brought a warning from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Kraft Canada for people to not eat certain Kraft Tartar Sauce.
The suspect item is a 355 ml size with a Uniform Product Code of 0 683071 0 and Best Before Dates of 10 …
Kraft to Reduce Sodium in Products by 2012
Kraft Foods announced last week that the company plans to eliminate 10 million pounds of salt from over 1,000 products in the next two years. The company will reduce the amount of sodium in a number of products by up to 20 percent by the end of 2012.
Rhonda Jordan, President of Health and Wellness …