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Sugar scare fails to sweeten US sugar-free candy sales
Sugar-free chocolate and candy sales in the US have declined in the first half of 2017 despite consumers aiming to limit sugar in their diets.
Archives for August 27, 2017
Research round-up: NASA, active packaging and dormant pathogens
Summer is almost over and it is back to the research lab – we take a look at what research has been done in the last month.
Judge’s reasoning in Quakers Oats ‘100% natural’ glyphosate case is ‘flatly wrong,’ claims attorney
A federal judge has tossed a high-profile lawsuit accusing Quaker Oats of misleading shoppers with 100% natural claims on products containing trace levels of the herbicide glyphosate, but it may be too early for parent company PepsiCo to crack open the...
Banza co-founder on staying focused, raising capital, saying no, and ‘shiny object syndrome’
When you start out, it’s tempting to say yes to everything, observes Banza co-founder Brian Rudolph (who admits ‘shiny object syndrome’ can also kick in once your brand gains traction and you start wondering where it could extend). But one of the reasons...
FDA promises menu labeling guidance as NYC agrees to delay enforcement
Two weeks after FDA filed a court document siding with industry’s effort to block New York’s controversial menu labeling law, the agency’s new head said the administration will soon issue compliance guidance for a similar federal law set to go into...
Smucker’s looks to reenergize sales with coffee innovation, ecommerce development
Coffee’s energizing effects are not cutting it for Folgers’ manufacturer JM Smucker Co., which like several other large CPG companies missed its projected estimated earnings in the last quarter due in part to softness in the coffee segment.