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McDonald's Corp. has set out to dispel some myths about ingredients and preparation as part of a yearlong food-credibility campaign"We've been hearing over the years that consumers have some misperceptions about the quality of our food at McDonal...

As the Olympic torch makes its way to Beijing, some American fast food companies are following the flame in a bid to capitalize on both the growing Chinese consumer market and the coming influx of tourist dollars. Chains big and small are either openi...

Aardappelplanten die via genetische modificatie zijn uitgerust met het een gen dat codeert voor het zogenoemde T4-lysozym, hebben geen aantoonbare onbedoelde effecten op de samenstelling van de microflora in de grond dicht bij de wortels en de samenste...

Langzaam verdringt de aardappel bij Cosun de suikerbiet. De diep insnijdende maatregelen van Europa in de suikermarkt doen suikeromzet, aantal fabrieken en aantallen telers slinken.Tegelijk groeit de omzet van aardappelpoot Aviko en vliegen ook de prij...

Hamburger chain Wendy's International (NYSE:WEN) Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter same-store sales declined, partly hurt by a shift in the Easter holiday.Same-store sales at U.S. company restaurants slipped 1.6 percent compared with a 3.8 percent r...

ConAgra Foods Inc. bought Watts Brothers, a private vegetable-processing and agricultural company, for about $132 million in cash and assumed liabilities. In a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ConAgra said that the assumed ...

Nedato, gespecialiseerd in aardappelverwerking, heeft haar vestiging in Oud-Beijerland voorzien van automatische tracking &tracing-apparatuur ten behoeve van het scannen van de Serial Shipment Container Code (SSCC) op rolcontainers en CBL-fusten. A...

Sierra Exportadora logró obtener una de las harinas de papa más baratas del mundo, utilizando como insumo la papa nacional de segunda y de descarte, así lo informó el presidente ejecutivo de Sierra Exportadora Gastón Benza Pflucker, durante la presenta...

BASF Plant Science, part of German chemicals group BASF, has been given approval to plant GMO potatoes on 30,000 square metres divided among three locations between 2008 and 2012. "The BVL's safety assessment came to the conclusion that the open...

Four months after potato growers in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota agreed to join Salt Lake City-based United Potato Growers of America, that membership could be in jeopardy, adding another chapter to an on-again/off-again relations...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has established a new destination inspection process for Canadian potatoes entering the U.S., as part of a new trade agreement between the two countries.The objective of this process i...

Las principales cadenas del país ya sufren la falta de carne. Algunas debieron trasladar estos problemas a los precios. Las fábricas de papas fritas se vieron obligadas a cerrar momentáneamente   En el caso de Mc Donald’s, los mayores costos generados ...