Company transitioning to three operating segments to drive sustainable growth Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, on Tuesday announced a new strategic operating model, aligning its businesses to be more agile, consumer and customer focused, and market-driven. Effective Oct. 31, 2022, the beginning of fiscal 2023, the company is transitioning to three operating segments – Retail, Foodservice and International. The One Supply Chain team will continue … [Read more...] about Hormel Foods Announces New Strategic Operating Model
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Perdue Farms’ Indiana Facility Becomes First U.S. Turkey Plant to Achieve GreenCircle Zero Waste to Landfill Certification
Third Company Facility to Receive the Significant Environmental Validation Washington, Ind. (August 2022) — Perdue Farms announced that its food-producing facility in Washington, Ind. has earned GreenCircle Zero Waste to Landfill certification, making it the first U.S. turkey processing facility and third Perdue facility to earn this important third-party environmental validation. During the audit period between May 2021-April 2022, GreenCircle validated that the Indiana operation diverted … [Read more...] about Perdue Farms’ Indiana Facility Becomes First U.S. Turkey Plant to Achieve GreenCircle Zero Waste to Landfill Certification
Stickers and a smartphone for easy nitrite detection on foods
Nitrates and nitrites give processed meats their characteristic pink colour and robust flavour. Although many consumers want to limit consumption of these preservatives because the substances can form potentially cancer-causing compounds, knowing how much is in food has been difficult to determine. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed a colour-changing film that consumers can stick onto foods and easily analyse nitrite levels by snapping a … [Read more...] about Stickers and a smartphone for easy nitrite detection on foods
