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Food news, food policy and food tech. What is changing on the label, in the lab and in the law, and what it means for the people who make our food.
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Allison and Stephen Ellsworth, who sold Poppi to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion, launch Jetty at Whole Foods on Nov. 9. The drinks list no artificial sweeteners or dyes and 6 grams of sugar or less.
Iran grows about 90% of the world's saffron, and most of it ships by air. The war has squeezed exports and lifted prices, though this year's crop was not hit.
USDA says its own AI tool would have caught September's corn yield errors in Nebraska and Kansas. It will review the Nov. 10 crop production report.
A Nov. 5 federal fact sheet says attackers are going after the controllers that run grocery and cold storage refrigeration. The Pentagon is investigating freezer failures at military commissaries as a possible cyberattack.
The alternative protein nonprofit eliminated six current roles and seven vacant ones, about 5% of its U.S. team, Green Queen reported. GFI says its revenue has held near $32 million while budgets grew.
On a Joe Rogan episode released the day Susie Wiles' exit was announced, former Kennedy adviser Calley Means gave his account of how glyphosate won a national security order and Supreme Court backing. Federal filings show Bayer paid $1.08 million to two lobbying firms where Wiles once worked.
PepsiCo says its insurers wrongly refused to defend it in San Francisco's ultra-processed food lawsuit, though its primary insurer helped defend individual injury suits. The insurers deny any breach.
A suit filed Oct. 29 says Truvia's stevia leaf sweetener is mostly erythritol. It follows an Oct. 23 suit over Walmart's Great Value stevia sweeteners.
A WHO draft published Nov. 2 would flag packaged foods that exceed limits on fat, sugars or sodium, or contain added colors, flavors or sweeteners, including plant and algae color extracts. Comments close Nov. 27.
On its Nov. 3 earnings call, ADM said an egg white alternative is headed to commercial scale, a whey alternative is in development, and its natural colors profit target is unchanged.
A Nov. 4 suit in Illinois is at least the second in less than a month to challenge the claim. A California case names the ingredient: citric acid.
About 25,000 bags of Brad's kale chips may contain thallium. In May, California health officials said the manufacturer had refused to remove the products from the marketplace.