food-processing

Hormel Foods Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell 3.2% on higher costs and lower pork operating margins as the food-processing company also announced its 46th consecutive annual dividend increase.

Hormel's Net Edges Lower Melodie Warner 2011

The FDA has the authority but not the resources to routinely inspect the estimated 150,000 food-processing plants in the United States or the 250,000 facilities abroad that supply U.S. consumers.

Conflicts of interest mar food producers' independent inspections Lena H. Sun 2010

Syngenta said it will prevent its new biotech corn from getting into food-processing supplies with contracts requiring that the farmers who grow it and the ethanol companies that use it follow strict handling rules.

USDA Clears Syngenta Biotech Corn Opposed by Grain Millers Scott Kilman 2011

But, like others in the food-processing industry, the company's margins have been pressured by rising commodities costs.

Hormel's Net Edges Lower Melodie Warner 2011

Historically, agriculture and the food-processing and hospitality industries are the most vulnerable to enforcement actions, because they rely heavily on low-skilled workers.

Feds Target Illegal Hires Miriam Jordan 2011

Others who received approvals include Soma Tollways Pvt. Ltd. for investments worth 5 billion rupees in an investing company and Global Gourmet Pvt. Ltd. for issue of shares on a partly paid basis to develop the company's food-processing business.

16 Foreign Investment Proposals Get Approved Deals India Staff 2011

Courtesy of IBM While consumers would use a mobile handset to access the software, food makers use a computer, below, to analyze the food-processing chain.

IBM Boosts Food Safety With Software Laurie Burkitt 2011

There are 200 million farming households and 400,000 food-processing companies with fewer than 10 employees scattered around the country, according to Christopher Hickey , the FDA's China director.

China's Food Chain Lures Private Equity Lingling Wei 2011

As local support industries expanded, other manufacturers followed, creating a critical mass in the country of hard disk plants, semiconductor factories and food-processing operations that turned Thailand into a major production and export hub.

Thai Flooding Hits Big Manufacturers James Hookway 2011

The Times, focusing on modern food-processing methods, told how tens of thousands of cattle, millions of pounds of beef, hundreds of miles of transport and acres of food-processing plants all came together to produce the hamburger patty that destroyed this young woman's life.

E. Coli: Blame the Meat, Not the Sprouts 2011