Fast and furious
• Burger King launching 'new-concept' Whopper Bar • Eight biogas plants being built by strategic alliance • Sarasin to lead Food Marketing Institute
• Food marketers must prepare for 'YouTube' Generation • Consumers switch from fast-food to retail meals: survey • Private label growing in convenience stores
• I.C.E. agents arrest 300 at S. Carolina poultry plant • As COOL gets underway, U.S.D.A. looks ahead • Industry scrambles to meet C.O.O.L. changes
• U.S. beef industry losing billions due to B.S.E. ban • "Redouble efforts" to open U.S. beef exports: Baucus • Both sides chime in on carcass irradiation issues
• Microwave technology • Vacuum pumps • Metalized pouches
• U.S. pork exports continue record pace • Czechs mind cloned meat least of all EU countries • Philippines to test Chinese lunch meat for melamine
Reverse strategy
Iowa Group reaching out to smaller processors