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April 18, 2012
Learn How Environmental, Social Values Affect Consumer Purchases
The concept of Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, or LOHAS, covers the market for goods and services that appeal to consumers who incorporate environmental and social responsibility values into their purchase decisions. Steve French, managing partner at the Natural Marketing Institute, will kick off IDFA's Dairy Sustainability Symposium, May...
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April 18, 2012
Order Combinations of Labeling Manuals for Significant Savings
IDFA's labeling manuals for milk and milk products, cheese, and ice cream and frozen desserts have been fully revised and updated with new information on nutrient content claims, qualified health claims and structure/function claims. The new content covers all aspects of labeling, including standards of identity and product name, net contents statements...
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April 11, 2012
Think Tank Says Supply Management Would Raise Prices, Hurt Competition
A new analysis from the American Enterprise Institute says supply management initiatives currently being discussed as part of the Farm Bill would be detrimental to U.S. interests. The paper, “Market Structure and Competition in the U.S. Food Industries: Implications for the 2012 Farm Bill,” concludes that a dairy supply-management program proposal introduced...
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April 11, 2012
OSHA Must Issue Citation Within Six Months of Violation, Court Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled unanimously on Friday that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration must issue a citation within six months of a violation's occurrence. The ruling put an end to the agency's practice of extending the statute of limitations for violations as long as five years and reversed an earlier decision...
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April 11, 2012
APHIS Sides with Industry on Citric Acid Exemption
IDFA wrote in January to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to convey support for USDA's ongoing efforts to mitigate the effects of potential foreign animal disease outbreaks, such as food-and-mouth disease. IDFA encouraged the agency to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to allow citric acid...
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April 11, 2012
IOM Committee Examines Food Resources, SNAP Allotments
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, is the largest nutrition assistance program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. In fiscal year 2010, SNAP served about 40.3 million people living in 18.6 million households. The Institute of Medicine convened a food and...
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April 11, 2012
IDFA Better Process Cheese School Meets FSMA Requirements
Does your cheese plant meet the new requirements for low-acid canned foods set by the Food Safety Modernization Act? Don't miss IDFA's Better Process Cheese School, June 14-15, in Rosemont, Ill., which will cover LACF regulations as they pertain to dairy facilities making shelf-stable process cheese. According to the Food and Drug Administration's...
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April 10, 2012
Do You Know the Ice Cream Man?
That's the question posed on the cover of this month's issue of SmartCEO, along with a photo of Guy Berliner, president of Berliner Specialty Distributors. Berliner, whose company is one of the largest distributors of Good Humor, Popsicle, Ben & Jerry's, Klondike and Breyers novelties as well as Dove Bars, Snickers and Wells' Blue Bunny ice cream,...
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April 4, 2012
Taxpayer Organizations Oppose Supply Management Proposal
Three taxpayer organizations – Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste and the National Taxpayers Union – teamed up last week to oppose including the proposed Dairy Market Stabilization Program in the upcoming Farm Bill. The program, which IDFA also opposes, would allow the government to mandate supply controls on dairy production...
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April 4, 2012
DairyLine Broadcast: If We All Got Together, Congress Would Listen
by Jerry Slominski, IDFA Senior Vice President of Legislative Affairs and Economic Policy "It is easy to get confused when you listen to the debate over the Dairy Security Act sponsored by Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN). The National Milk Producers Federation likes to talk about the margin insurance plan and rarely even mentions the supply management...
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