Potato News

August 04, 2008

Greenvale makes new board appointments

Greenvale AP has strengthened its board with a number of new appointments. Brian Macdonald has become financial director, having notched up 25 years at Scottish and Newcastle plc, initially covering its UK trading and production businesses, then overs...
August 04, 2008

Restaurant menus unhealthy for kids - report

Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. Nearly every possible combinatio...
 International Year of the Potato
August 04, 2008

Preserving Potatoes More Important than Age-Old Dispute

Policies to get small farmers involved in saving, preserving, producing, marketing and genetically improving potatoes should take precedence over the age-old dispute between Chile and Peru about where potatoes originated, experts from both countries s...
August 04, 2008

Des marchés en expansion - Un accompagnement des nouveaux producteurs

Agriculteur à Saint-Vougay (29), Richard Cadiou se lance cette année dans la culture de plants de pomme de terre. Depuis son installation en 1982, il produisait des pommes de terre de consommation qui étaient directement livrées chez un négociant, avec...
August 04, 2008

Reformas para la nueva norma de calidad de la patata en el mercado español

El Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino terminó ayer el proyecto de norma de calidad para la patata en el mercado nacional, que sustituirá a la norma en vigor de 1986 y que será publicado próximamente, después de que se acabe el período ...
August 04, 2008

Restaurants Spurn Food Contracts For Spot Market

Higher prices and shorter lengths for food contracts are forcing some restaurants to reconsider locking in prices for ingredients and instead buy chicken, beef and other goods on the spot market, exposing themselves to volatile costs. Major food suppli...
August 03, 2008

Consumer Sues Over Popcorn Lung Disease From Butter Flavor Diacetyl Chemical

The only known consumer to have developed the health condition known as "popcorn lung"is suing the stores that sold him his microwave popcorn, saying that they failed to warn him that he could become ill from using the product as intended.Way...
 GAIN report
August 02, 2008

Gain report: Annual European Union (overview food laws and regulations)

This report gives a complete overview of food laws currently in force in the EU-27. The following sections were updated: labeling requirements (allergen labeling, nutrition and health claims), packaging (pack sizes), pesticides, contaminants, ...
China Essence Group has been granted a loan facility for expansion
August 01, 2008

China Essence Group has been granted a loan facility for expansion

China Essences Group Ltd., a chinese producer of potato starch and related products, announced it entered into an agreement for a USD 60 million short term loan facility by the DBS bank.According to the statement, the purpose of the loan facility is to...
 United States Potato Board
August 01, 2008

Frito-Lay Launches New Initiative to position Potato Chips as a snack that belongs in a Healthy Diet

The July issue of Better Homes and Gardens introduced Frito-Lay’s new advertorial (an advertisement that looks like editorial content). Titled “Keeping up like the Joneses,” it features a photo of an attractive mother and her three children bringing g...
 United States Potato Board
August 01, 2008

Technical seminars teach Mexican Bakers about US dehydrated potato

During May the USPB representative in Mexico held a training session for bakers in Vera Cruz. The seminar was held in conjunction with CANAINPA, the Mexican bakery association annual meeting, was very well received by the local bakery industry, and was...
August 01, 2008

Chinese Cooking Contest encourages dishes made with US frozen potato products

The United States Potato Board (USPB) conducted the 2008 US Potato Chef Cooking Contest in China to enhance the application of US frozen potato products in Chinese cuisine and to encourage the local Hotel Restaurant and Institution (HRI) establishments...

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