Baking & Snack - December 2009 - 16

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The Bakery Science Club, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, recently unveiled
the club's new signage. The sign will be strategically placed in front of Shellenberger
and Waters Hall for Wednesday bakery
sales. Money raised by the bakery sales assists club members with travel expenses to
the American Society of Baking's annual
conference in Chicago, IL, in March.
▶ KSU Bakery Science students (from
left) Sara Butler, Maggie Weeks, Chrissy
Stecich and Amber Dryden have been
instrumental in updating the club's logo
and marketing.

TIC Gums celebrates by giving back
TIC Gums, White Marsh, MD, is commemorating its 100-year mission of
customer and community service with
a series of public service projects. Each
month, employees have collected and donated gently used items or nonperishable
foods to a number of organizations in the
Harford County, MD, area.
"As part of our efforts for this special year, we formed an in-house action
committee to organize service projects,"

said Gayle Kelly-Peluso, organizational
development manager, TIC Gums. "Our
goal was to include a range of projects
near our main office as well as in other
communities in which our employees
work and visit."
Employees participated in renovating a homeless shelter and aiding the
Humane Society in Fallstone, MD. The
company also exercised for cancer research and the Leukemia & Lymphoma

Society at fund-raising run/walks.
"Although service has been a highlight
for 2009, given our anniversary, the response from our TIC Gums community
of employees has been so strong that we
expect to continue many projects into our
101st year," Ms. Kelly-Peluso said. "Especially in these times, when the sense of
community is more important than ever,
giving back is a priority that reaps many
rewards for all involved."

NEWS IN BRIEF
The Nielsen Co. reported the
in-store bakery department as
posting the most significant
growth of any perishable sector for grocers.

Virginia Dare's research found about nutritional eating often do not
that Hispanic consumers indi- necessarily align with actual behavior.
cated that they buy or regularly
prepare chocolate chip cookies Aunt Millie's will donate more
in their households, followed by than 50,000 loaves of fresh ButAmerican Pie Council (APC) bread pudding, muffins and chocolate cake. ter Top Wheat Bread to food
will promote National Pie Day They are least familiar with zucchini bread, banks throughout the Midwest
on Jan. 23. APC's commercial members peperecha, cremosas, Gansito snack cakes, this holiday season. The first donaposted discount coupons and recipes for
pies at www.piecouncil.org.

macaroons, zemitas, Mallomars, banana
creme pie and key lime pie.

Twenty-two senior Chinese
food-safety delegates from government, industry and academic
sectors concluded a 2-week program focused on how nations
achieve international food safety standards for protecting public health.

The NPD Group found that
in households with children,
if the adult female has a good
Healthy Eating Index, a measure of diet quality similar to
federal dietary guidance, the
majority of children in the
household are eating just as
well. According to the report, although

Among a number of activities, the delegates
toured a General Mills facility and attended
a roundtable discussion with industry food
safety leaders at Cargill's headquarters.

BAKING & SNACK / December 2009

moms' healthy eating behaviors impact
how their children eat, moms' attitudes

tions were delivered to food banks in Gary,
IN, and Urbana, IL, on Nov. 4. The final
donation will be delivered in the Grand
Rapids, MI, area on Dec. 23 - more than
1,000 loaves per day.

The Institute of Medicine recommended that the Food and
Drug Administration take action to require the labeling
for the whole-grain content in
food. The report states that products with
8 g or more per serving should be considered legitimate whole-grain products.

http://www.piecouncil.org

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