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News ArchivesYEAR2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 MONTH Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec HEADLINES General Mills announces sodium reduction strategy April 16, 2010 – General Mills has become the latest major food manufacturer to announce a sodium reduction strategy, pledging a 20 per cent reduction in about 40 per cent of its product portfolio by 2015. | READ MORE Bruegger's to give new look to bakeries April 15, 2010 – Bruegger's Bagels, the 295-unit bakery chain that recently announced it was coming to Toronto, will
introduce its new bakery prototype, with an updated look. The company
said that it will renovate hundreds of bakeries at a total cost of more
than $10 million over the next three years. | READ MORE Organic bakery sales take tumble in U.K. April 14, 2010 – Sales of organic bread and bakery items in the U.K. experienced a significant plunge in sales in 2009, according to the latest Organic Market Report. | READ MORE Modest employment gains fail to drop jobless rate April 12, 2010 – The Canadian labour market is healing at a measured pace, with higher commodity prices starting to spur hiring. | READ MORE Toronto's bagel wars heating up April 9, 2010, TORONTO – Toronto’s bagel wars promise to heat up now that an American company has brought its version of New York bagels to town. | READ MORE Dawn Food Products closing 160-worker bakery April 9, 2010, CROWN POINT, Ind. – Dawn Food Products Inc. has decided to close a 160-employee bakery in northwestern Indiana. | READ MORE Cdn company develops yeast solution for acrylamide April 8, 2010, VANCOUVER – Functional Technologies Corp. has developed, tested and
filed patent applications for yeast technology that reduces the formation of
acrylamide, a carcinogen formed when starchy foods are baked, fried or toasted.
U.K. bakers could slash salt with ‘micro’ particles April 7, 2010 – Loaves with “astonishingly low levels of salt” could hit supermarket
shelves early next year as U.K. bakers launch the
first products containing microscopic salt crystals from
Nottingham-based firm Eminate. | READ MORE
More tampered food in Calgary stores April 6, 2010, CALGARY – Chalking it up to misguided copycats, police are investigating another two incidents of food tampering at southeast Calgary grocery stores. | READ MORE Callebaut posts gains in contracting chocolate market April 1, 2010 – Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has reported increased profits and sales volumes for the six months to the end of February 2010, despite a declining global chocolate market. | READ MORE |






