Potato News

US Supermarket industry sales increased 5.2 percent in 2008, and identical-store sales rose 4.5 percent, but these gains were offset by the 5.7 percent food-at-home inflation rate last year, according to the 2009 Food Retailing Industry Speaks: Annual ...

Commission Recommendation 2007/331/EC on the monitoring of acrylamide levels in food of 3 May 2007 requires the Member States to perform annually in 2007, 2008 and 2009 the monitoring of acrylamide levels in certain foodstuffs. These data have to be t...

"We really don't know much about it. It is a very new pest here."Terry Olsen - Horticulture New Zealand's Potato Group chairman on the potato psyllid.The jury is still out on the impact the pest, the potato psyllid, will have on crop yields.T...

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is urging the Obama administration to quickly resolve a trucking dispute with Mexico to aid export of Washington farm products, including frozen potatoes, that are now the target of the 20 percent duty.Canadian potato gro...

Dos nuevos materiales de papa producidos por el Centro Internacional de este tubérculo y que no habían tenido mucha acogida en el país fueron rescatados por algunos agricultores de la Sierra, quienes han encontrado una solución para que la industria de...

Unsafe levels of sodium chloride, or salt, in chain restaurant meals increase one's chance of developing hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, and kidney disease according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The nonprofit food safety and ...

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is taking issue with the P.E.I. Potato Board's interpretation of how much money has been paid out for crops ruined by rain last summer. In October, a $12.4- million compensation plan was announced, cost-shared b...

This month, Frito-Lay kicks-off its largest ever marketing campaign called "Lay's Local" to celebrate the more than 40,000 Americans across the country who grow the potatoes we use to make Lay’s brand potato chips, who make the chips at Frito...

Un estudio realizado por la Universidad de Rostock está desarrollando plantas de patata modificadas genéticamente (MG) que puedan ser usadas para la obtención de bioplásticos. De esta forma, las plantas podrían actuar como materias primas renovables, p...

In 2007 the managers of McCain Foods factory in Harbin (China) decided modifications were necessary to protect their pump system, and sought a solution from the engineering firm of AMEC Geomatrix, a specialist in the industrial and food processing indu...

As the unemployment rate in the United States continues to rise, hitting 8.9 percent in April, quick-service chains that have so far battled successfully against the recession may find their good fortunes are running out. Analysts last week proffered ...

P.E.I. potato farmers are unable to access anywhere near the amount of money that was promised by the federal government to help them with crops damaged by rains last fall. Last fall, the federal government announced $12.4 million in disaster assistan...