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The Humane Society of the United States — the animal rights group that recently made headlines with an undercover video that sparked a recall of 143 million pounds of beef produced by Hallmark/Westland, Chino, Calif. — has announced...
R-CALF USA, a nonprofit organization representing cattle producers nationally, has announced its support for a proposal that would trace back E. coli- or salmonella-contaminated beef to its source of contamination, which R-CALF officials say is in...
The pace of change is quickening in supermarket seafood departments, and Steve Lutz, executive vice president of The Perishables Group, examined which products are growing and which ones are losing share at the International Boston Seafood Show's...
When Midan Marketing and Shugoll Research set out recently to study how consumers perceive the many different brands available in supermarket meat cases, one of the first things they discovered was a surprising lack of brand awareness among...
Pathmark Stores has switched its private-label meats from Pathmark Brand to America's Choice, according to an announcement featured on the company's website and in recent store circulars. Everybody loves our fresh Italian Sweet or Hot Sausage...
As part of the annual State of the Consumer Report on Seafood at the International Boston Seafood Show, representatives from the NPD Group, Fishery Products International and Seafood Business magazine joined together to examine menu trends...
Keeping it simple was the mantra at the Retail Showcase Seminar at the International Boston Seafood Show last week, in a session where officials from Encore Associates, Alpha Gamma Seafood and Price Chopper discussed topics ranging from operations...
BETWEEN THE SPINACH SCARE OF 2006 and last year's rash of meat recalls, recent history has made people think twice about the food they're buying. According to the Food Marketing Institute's most recent report on U.S. shopping trends, consumer...
YOGURT WITH FIBER. Milk with probiotics and omega-3s. Butter from hormone-free, grass-fed cows What's the dairy aisle coming to? Perhaps the better question is: How far can it go? As one of the primary gateways leading to whole health, dairy...
Piece by piece, the National Organic Standards Board has been assembling criteria for the certification of seafood. This spring, members expect they'll fit the last pieces into place and send it over for official review. We're moving ahead in the...