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Egg farmers announce 'Good Egg Project'
To address people's growing interest in
where their food comes from, America's
egg farmers announced the "Good Egg
Project," an initiative that aims to educate Americans on modern egg farming, introduces them to the farmers
that care for their hens and the eggs
they produce and encourages people to eat well and do good deeds
every day.
More than 12 million eggs are
donated each year to food banks
and charities across the nation,
and the need for food among
America's food banks continues
to grow. America's egg farmers are
asking consumers to join the fight
against hunger by taking the Good
Egg Project pledge to "Eat Good. Do
Good Everyday." For every pledge on
GoodEggProject.org,
America's
egg farmers will donate one egg
to Feeding America, the nation's
largest hunger relief charity, up to
one million eggs.

The Food and Drug
Administration
outlined its
guidance on the
plethora of

front-of-package
symbols and
nutrition scores
being used by
food processors
and retailers to
communicate the
nutritional quality
of foods and
beverages.
- Food and Drug Administration

NEWS IN BRIEF
Kraft Foods, Inc. plans a new
biscuit research and development center just outside
of Paris in Saclay . It will represent an investment of €15 million ($20
million), and is scheduled to open during the first half of 2011. The center will
support the European biscuit business
by focusing on innovation, new product
development and the advancement of
biscuit technology platforms.

covers 83 grants that will cover four major
areas: response, intervention, innovation
and prevention.

Archer Daniels Midland Co.
celebrated the official opening of a new cocoa processing
plant in Kumasi, Ghana, on
Oct. 9. The facility sits on a 75,000-sq-m
site and is comprised of a bean warehouse, a
processing plant and a finished goods warehouse. Construction began January 2008.
The processing of cocoa beans into cocoa
liquor for use in chocolate began in July.

trial Ingredients has distributed food ingredients since 1981.

The Whole Grain Council's
Whole Grain Stamp can be
found on more than 3,000
whole grain foods in 14
countries. WGC has created Portuguese and Spanish versions for Latin
America, a French-English version for
Canadas and even a Polish version. The
milestone 3,000th product was Pan Integral Bimbo, a product offered in Panama
by Mexico-based Grupo Bimbo.

ConAgra
Foods,
Inc.
announced plans to reduce
sodium levels across its portfoChicago Sweeteners, Inc., a Lance, Inc. completed the prelio of products by 20% by 2015.
division of Batory Foods, has viously announced purchase
The Food and Drug Admin- acquired Industrial Ingredi- of the Stella D'oro brand as well
stration awarded $17.5 mil- ents, Inc., based in Keokuk, as certain manufacturing equipment and
lion in fiscal 2009 to further Iowa, and a division of Allied inventory from Stella D'oro Biscuit Co.,
food and feed safety. The funding Blending & Ingredients. Indus- Inc., Bronx, NY, Oct. 13.

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http://www.GoodEggProject.org

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