Jim Ostroff

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The Federal Trade Commission last week announced that U.S. cigar manufacturers have agreed to post warnings about the adverse health risks of cigar smoking on all of their products and advertising...

WASHINGTON -- A smoldering trade war with Europe has flared anew and the United States now is targeting a raft of gourmet-food products for imposition of "killer duties" that will bar these and other consumer products...

LANDOVER, Md. (FNS) -- Giant Food has rolled out earlier this month a new consumer program chainwide that seeks to spotlight in virtually every department the importance of nutrition, healthy lifestyles and wellness...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Consumer prices for food and beverages rose 0.1% in March, a bright spot in an otherwise worrisome report that raised fears that inflation is about to re-ignite.The Labor Department's release of...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Food-industry officials have vowed to defeat a White House regulatory proposal they allege could be used to blackball companies seeking to do business with the government, based on unsubstantiated...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The United States last week announced it will all but officially ban the importation of a host of European gourmet foods, in retaliation for Europe's refusal to accept U.S. hormone-treated beef.The...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The Food Marketing Institute here said U.S. food-safety agencies' handling of potentially tainted European foods could needlessly alarm U.S. consumers, to the detriment of shoppers and supermarkets...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Although trade sanctions that could empty retailers' shelves of European gourmet food items have been put on hold until mid-summer at least, an industry leader has warned the dispute is on the...