Milling & Baking News - December 14, 2021 - 54

TUES | 12 14 2021
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Under an agreement between the Food
and Drug Administration and the
National Resources Defense Council,
the FDA must decide before March 31,
2012, whether it will ban the use of the
chemical bisphenol A in food packaging.
A little less than two years after the company's
flour mill was destroyed in the
devastating January 2010 earthquake in
Haiti, a new Les Moulins d'Haiti flour
mill was dedicated Dec. 16.
New World Pasta Co., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Ebro Foods SA, has agreed
to acquire the No Yolks and
Wacky Mac dry pasta brands
from Strom Products Ltd., for
$50 million.
Horizon Milling GP, a partnership
formed by Cargill and
CHS, unveiled plans to build a
new flour mill in Guelph, Ont.
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Lance, Inc. has agreed to purchase
a 175,000-square-foot building on a
137-acre tract of land in Columbia, SC,
for use by its Midwest Biscuit Co. subsidiary.
The
board of directors of Cargill has
approved a plan to purchase stock
from present shareholders of the privately
held company as the initial step
in the creation of an employee stock
ownership plan.
Joe D. Williams, who helped build
Martha White Foods Co. into a major
supplier of family flour, mixes and
other food products, died Dec. 6 in
Nashville, Tenn. He was 76 years old.
Richard E. Burket, corporate vice
president and assistant to the chairman
at Archer Daniels Midland Co.,
Decatur, Ill., died Dec. 13 at a Decatur
hospital after suffering an apparent
heart attack at the company's headquarters.
At
a Marketing Advisory
Committee meeting
of the Quality Bakers
of America were,
from left, J.B. Popp, Perfection
Biscuit Co.; Dick
Fontaine, My Bread Baking
Co., and John Kushnerick
Sr., Stroehmann
Bakeries, Inc.
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The Democratic Party platform for
the 1952 election will include modification
of present farm price support
legislation to provide 100% of parity
supports for basic farm commodities.
The Millers' National Federation has
been advised that the government of
Chile has approved a bread enrichment
program based on standards in
use in the United States. It is scheduled
to go into effect early in 1952.
Strict enforcement of sanitation practices
in the grain storage industry
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will be initiated by the Food and Drug
Administration early in 1952, it was
indicated by Joseph B. Gregg of Kansas
City, chairman of the Grain Sanitation
Committee of the Grain & Feed Dealers'
National Association.
The Cuban government expects
the production of flour in the new
mill now under construction in
Regla, the municipality across the
bay from Havana, to start sometime in
January.
A group of 25 operative millers and
allied tradesmen from Canada gathered
in Regina, Sask., to form a group
that will make formal application to
the executive committee of the Association
of Operative Millers for a
charter as a district of the AOM. The
group, if accepted by the executive
committee, would be District 13.
Roger E. Joseph, eldest son of I.S.
Joseph, head of the I.S. Joseph Co., Inc.,
was stricken with poliomyelitis Dec. 13
and remained in critical condition until
early last week when he began to show
improvement. Mr. Joseph is 34. MBN
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Dr. Warren E. Kronstad of Oregon
State University was among a select
group of individuals honored in a
White House ceremony for their continuing
dedication to fight to end global
hunger.
Cargill and Sugar Growers
and Refiners, Inc. have
acquired Imperial Sugar
Co.'s one-third interest in the
Louisiana Sugar Refining
LLC joint venture for $18
million.
Boyd H. Drum, retired president
of Midstate Mills, Inc.,
Newton, NC, died Dec. 16, a
day after his 77th birthday.
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