Whole Foods Recalls Salads From Cold Salad Bar Due To Undeclared Allergens

May 10, 2013 FDA

Whole Foods Market is recalling bulk curried chicken salad and bulk vegan curried chick'n salad because in some stores these items may have been sold with reversed labels causing undeclared soy and egg allergens. Due to the label mix-up, allergens were undeclared; the vegan chick'n salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg.

Fresh & Easy Introduces New Fresh Lunch Options

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market today introduced more than 45 new fresh lunch items and frozen entrees to its stores, offering customers great new options to feed themselves – and their families – for both lunch and dinner. The lunch selections include a new line of special signature salads, wraps and sandwiches created by Fresh & Easy’s team of chefs. Like all fresh&easy brand products, the new items are made without any artificial colors or flavors, high-fructose corn syrup, or added trans fats.

Alto-Shaam Promotes New VP Of Sales & Marketing

May 10, 2013 Alto-Shaam, Inc.

Alto-Shaam is pleased to announce the promotion of Todd Griffith to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Previously the Vice President of Sales, Griffith will assume leadership responsibility for the marketing, culinary and corporate communications functions within the company.

Specialty Food Association Launches New Brand For The Industry

The Specialty Food Association is launching a new brand to highlight the passion, creativity and quality that fuels the specialty food industry, Specialty Food: Craft. Care. Joy. The launch includes the not-for-profit trade association’s first-ever advertising campaign.

Bekkum Family Farms Awarded A Federal Grant To Market Farmstead Products

May 9, 2013 Bekkum Family Farms

Bekkum Family Farms, a dairy, beef and pork producer in southwest Wisconsin, announced today it earned a $232,051 Value-Added Producer Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to market its farmstead products.