Kroger Adding Another Ruler Foods Store In St. Louis
Cincinnati-based grocer Kroger Co. is continuing to expand its St. Louis-area presence with plans to build another of its small-format, value-oriented Ruler Foods stores, this one in Jennings. …
Year: 2016
Target Corporation Names Janna Potts Company's Chief Stores Officer
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) announced the promotion of Janna Potts to executive vice president, chief stores officer. Potts will be responsible for the leadership of Target’s 1,805 stores across the United States. Potts will replace Tina Tyler and will assume the position effective immediately. She will serve as a member of Target’s leadership team and will report to Target’s chief operating officer, John Mulligan. …
AU: Fruit And Vegetable Merchants Put Bruising Melbourne Market Battles Behind Them
Fruit and vegetable traders are trying to put teething issues and 10 years of bad blood behind them as they settle into the new Melbourne Wholesale Fruit Vegetable and Flower Market.The market opened on August 31 after its long-awaited relocation from the Melbourne Docks to the northern suburb of Epping. However, the opening date had to be postponed by close to a month as some traders struggled to get their store fitouts completed. …
Cornell's New Institute For Food Safety To Fight Foodborne Illness
Cornell University will be home to a comprehensive center combining food safety research and training for New York growers and producers, offering a farm-to-fork bulwark against foodborne illness in compliance with new, stricter federal regulations. …
USDA Scientists And NatureSeal Create New Antimicrobial Wash For Fresh Produce
Sometimes it takes time to find a winning formula. That’s how it was with First Step+ 10, according to Joshua Gurtler, an Agricultural Research Service scientist at the Eastern Regional Research Center, in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. Gurtler and his collaborators at NatureSeal, Inc., tested hundreds of antimicrobial formulations, in a series of carefully designed laboratory experiments, before they found the right combination of lactic acid, fruit acids, and hydrogen peroxide for a wash that reduces the risk of food-borne pathogens contaminating fresh produce in food processing operations. …