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CSM sponsors
baking contest

injunction against Butterfly Bakery
Inc., based in Clifton, NJ, and its
president, Brenda Isaac, for unlawfully distributing misbranded food

CSM Bakery Products is becoming a

products, such as muffins and

key ingredient in ending childhood

snack cakes.    

hunger by locally sponsoring Share
Our Strength’s Baking Contest for No

The consent decree restrains Butterﬂy

Kid Hungry on Tuesday, March 5, at Le

Bakery and Brenda Isaac from
processing and distributing food

Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
Thomas Douglass, fortiﬁcation

until the company complies with the

director, Caravan Ingredients

in Atlanta, GA.

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
and applicable regulations. Under the

Lynn Kuczajda, corporate culinary
manager at CSM Bakery Products,

the development and execution of

consent decree, the FDA may assess

represented the company by sitting

category growth strategies within the

damages against the company for

on the judging panel during the

fortiﬁcation platform. In addition, he

any future violations of the law or the

contest. “I’m very passionate about

will work to identify business develop-

consent decree.

the industry, and I’m really looking

ment opportunities to grow Caravan

forward to seeing the creativity

Ingredients’ fortiﬁcation business.

of others in this ﬁeld while also
supporting such a great cause,”

Douglass most recently joins

Kuczajda says.

Caravan Ingredients from Glanbia
Nutritionals, where he worked as

The kickoff event for Share Our

a sales manager revitalizing sales

Strength’s 10th annual Bake Sale

in their Eastern Territory. Prior to

for No Kid Hungry featured profes-

this role, Douglass held executive

sional pastry chefs, amateurs, culinary

leadership positions with Flavor &

students and children vying to win

Fragrance Specialties and Allied

the title of “Atlanta’s Best Dessert.”

Blending and Ingredients. He brings

All proceeds beneﬁted Share Our

to Caravan Ingredients 28 years of

Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.

experience in the food industry.
Samples tested by both FDA and

Guests attending the contest sampled

Mary Bentley, vice president of

state officials over several years

the sweet creations of some of

marketing and business development

show that Butterﬂy Bakery’s

Atlanta’s best pastry chefs. At the

for Caravan Ingredients, says, “We

product labeling was false and

end of the evening, the entries were

look forward to Tom’s contributions

misleading.  For example, laboratory

judged on originality, taste and

to growing our position in the fortiﬁ-

analysis showed that foods labeled

appearance. The top three contes-

cation market with his strong blend

as “sugar free” contained sugar, and

tants in each of the four categories

of strategy and business develop-

that certain products contained as

received prizes.

ment skills.”

much as three times the amount of
labeled/declared sugar, two times the
amount of labeled/declared fat, and

Caravan names
fortiﬁcation director

FDA rules against
NJ bakery

Thomas Douglass has been named

The US Food and Drug

Judge Dennis Cavanaugh of the US

fortiﬁcation director for Caravan

Administration announced that

District Court for the District of New

Ingredients. In this marketing role,

a federal judge has approved a

Jersey signed the consent decree on

Douglass will be responsible for

consent decree of permanent

March 5, 2013.

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two times the amount of labeled/
declared saturated fat.
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