Food News

Making small changes in diet can result in significant health benefits. That's according to new research that Omaha-based ConAgra Foods paid for.

Johnson & Johnson 's investment of $1 billion for an 18.34 percent stake in Elan raises more questions than answers.

After five hours of deliberations on June 29, an ED Texas jury found Abbotta s actions in selling Humira, in view of J&J's patent position, to be willful and determined J&J is owed $1.17 billion in lost profits and $504 million in royalties.

This year, to commemorate the bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln's birth, master cheese carver Troy Landwehr created his tallest Big Cheese statue to date: a life-sized rendering of America's 16th president.

Federal officials need more information before ruling on a case between Smithfield Foods Inc.

A Tulsa federal judge is pushing forward to keep a Sept. 21 trial date in a lawsuit over pollution in the Illinois River watershed.

Friday, 3 July 2009, 5:46 pm Article: Businesswire Fonterra to appeal Commerce Commission raw milk ruling 3 July - Fonterra is digging in its heels over interpretation of the Raw Milk Regulations, appealing a Commerce Commission decision requiring the giant dairy cooperative to supply raw milk to a third party processor for the Kaimai Cheese and ...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: American International Group Inc., down $5.12 at $18.08 At the battered insurers annual meeting Tuesday, investors approved a reverse 20-for-1 stock split meant to boost the share price.

Birds Eye Foods Inc. has announced a plan to remove iron from Fennville's city water supply and expand the system's service area into two neighboring townships.

Don Tyson of Springdale-based Tyson Foods has been honored with a statue of a hog outside the John W. Tyson Poultry Science Building at the University of Arkansas, home of the Razorbacks.

U.S. stocks climbed, extending gains from the best quarter for the Standard & Poora s 500 Index since 1998, as improving measures of manufacturing and home sales added to evidence that the worst of the recession is over.

US drug maker Johnson & Johnson is to take an 18.4% stake in Dublin-listed Elan as part of a deal under which it will take over some of Elan's research into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Kellogg Co. is racing to be the first to offer consumers this year's nutritional must-have: extra fiber.

Wed Jul 1, 2009 5:33pm EDT - An American flag adorns the front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York, February 10, 2009.

Workers at the world's largest pork slaughterhouse in rural North Carolina have agreed on a four-year contract with a Smithfield Foods subsidiary.

The stock market's third quarter began on a positive note Wednesday after some reassuring data on manufacturing and the housing market.

A dozen Arkansas poultry companies being sued by Oklahoma's attorney general for polluting the Illinois River watershed with chicken waste have asked a judge to postpone the trial.

"From the director of Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen" might tell you everything you need to know about the sales pitch for Steven Soderbergh 's The Informant .

Lance, Inc. announced that it intends to release its 2009 second quarter financial results prior to the market open on Friday, July 24, 2009.

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