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Alcohol trade group Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) announced its commitment to promoting federal legalization of cannabis. In a letter to Congress last week, the group said lawmakers should model legislation after alcohol laws and individual states should be able to control the laws surrounding...
Chicken companies, including Pilgrim’s Pride and Perdue Farms, have agreed to pay a settlement totaling $35 million in a class action suit alleging price-fixing of its products, the office of Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement.
Perdue agreed to pay $11 million,...
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Spray’s labeling indicating a serving has zero calories or grams of fat is not misleading because it is classified as a spray, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week. The initial case was filed as...
USDA is moving closer to formally declaring salmonella as a contaminant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products.
The department is publishing a proposal in the Federal Register that would consider any breaded stuffed raw chicken product contaminated if it tested positive for a single colony forming unit of the...
JBS USA has canceled its contracts with Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) after the company was fined for hiring children to clean some of its meatpacking locations.
The company does “not tolerate child labor or unsafe working conditions,” and came to its decision after an internal investigation, JBS...
Food companies are making lofty promises about lowering emissions by the end of the 2020s, and regenerative agriculture is touted as a solution to improving their carbon footprints. But many experts say a lack of a definition for regenerative agriculture may do more harm...
