Hostess Brands throws in the towel: Strikes cause full business closure
Twinkies and Wonder Bread maker Hostess Brands has today filed a motion with the US Bankruptcy Court for permission to close the business and sell all assets.
Archives for November 16, 2012
5-Hour Energy: Adverse event reports do not prove that our shots caused 13 deaths
5-Hour Energy is “unaware of any deaths proven to have been caused” by consuming its top-selling energy shots, distributor Living Essentials has insisted, after the FDA confirmed it has received 92 serious adverse event reports (AERs) citing...
AMERIPEN: ‘no silver bullet’ for packaging recovery
The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) said there is no ‘silver bullet’ to optimise packaging recovery in the US in an update yesterday.
Soda-Lo: Tate & Lyle's novel solution to sodium reduction (clue: it's salt, only much, much smaller...)
Engineered using a patent-pending process that re-crystallizes standard table salt to create microscopic free-flowing hollow ‘microspheres’, Soda-Lo can help firms slash sodium and retain their clean labels because it is still listed as ‘salt’ on pack,...