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sulfite process caramel coloring, also known as Caramel
IV, and Caramel III, which is
produced with ammonia but
not sulfites.

2011

The world cocoa situation fell
into further disarray the past
couple of weeks due to worsening political and economic
conditions in top-producing
Ivory Coast, which remains
locked in a presidential power struggle.

Looking to parlay the
strength of its Goldfish crackers franchise into the bread
aisle, Pepperidge Farm, Inc.,
Norwalk, Conn., is introducing Goldfish brand bread.
Flowers Baking Co. of West
Virginia, a subsidiary of
Flowers Bakeries, was to
cease manufacturing operations on March 5. The bakery,
which Flowers acquired in
1981, bakes bread and buns
on two production lines and
employs 164.
About 20% of American consumers incorrectly believe
meats and seafood provide
dietary fiber, according to a
survey commissioned by Kellogg Co.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Ark., wants to eliminate
all industrially produced
trans fat from its products
by 2015, according to plans
released in January designed
to provide heathier and more
affordable food choices.

A regulatory petition filed
with the Food and Drug Administration by the Center for
Science in the Public Interest
calls for the banning of the
caramel colorings ammonia
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McKee Foods has added
Blueberry Harvest and Banana Harvest chewy granola
bars to its Sunbelt brand.
General Mills, Inc. has donated 1 million servings of
whole grains and partnered
with Travis Stork, author and
host of the daytime talk show,
" The Doctors, " to educate
Americans on the importance
of whole grains.
MaMa Rosa's has launched
Pizza Grillers, a new line of
pizzas that cook on the grill
in less than eight minutes.

1991
Rozon Milling Inc. will increase its milling capacity by
more than one-third when
construction of a new stateof-the-art, 5,000-cwt mill is
completed later this year in
Montreal.
Harvest States Cooperatives,
St. Paul, and Union Equity
Cooperative Exchange, Enid,
Okla., have agreed in principle to a plan under which
a large portion of Union Equity's assets would be transferred to Harvest States.
Sara Lee Corp. will move its
corporate offices in June from

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Deerfield, Ill., to the historic
Railway Exchange Building
in downtown Chicago.
Kern's Bakeries, Inc., based
in Knoxville, Tenn., has begun production at the former
Mills Family Bakery location
in Gadsden, Ala., activating
a plant that has been idle for
about a year.
James L. Rainey will retire
as president and chief executive officer of Farmland Industries, Inc. effective April
1. He will be succeeded by
H.D. (Harry) Cleberg, a 23year veteran of the Kansas
City-based regional cooperative.
President Bush formally
asked Congress to extend
for two years, until May 31,
1993, the current fast-track
trade agreement negotiating
authority that will expire
May 31.
Lender 's bagels will be
among food products served
on American Airlines flights
under terms of an agreement
between the airline and Kraft
General Foods.
Donald S. Eber,
a retired executive of the
Association of
Operative Millers, died Feb.
27 at Shawnee
Mission MediEber
cal Center. Mr.
Eber, 86, was a resident of
Prairie Village, Kas.

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Kits with ideas and material
to aid bakeries to tie-in at the
local level with the national
promotions built around the
decennial of the enrichment
of white bread have been sent
to more than 4,500 bakers
throughout the country by
the Bakers of America Program.
Drake Bakeries, Inc. announced
purchase of Gebott's Cream
Fried Cake Co., Boston, Mass.

Edmund P. Pillsbury, vicepresident of Pillsbury Mills,
Inc., suffered
fatal injuries
in the crash of
a plane he was
flying Feb. 21.
Mr. Pillsbury,
who was 37
years of age,
Pillsbury
was piloting
the plane from Minneapolis
for a skiing holiday in Aspen,
Colo.
As a tie-in with the tenth
anniversary of the bread
enrichment in March, the
Fleischmann Division of
Standard Brands, Inc. has arranged for the showing of its
motion picture, " The Modest
Miracle, " over the nationwide television network of
the American Broadcasting
Co. and its affiliated stations.
The film describes the background of the enrichment
program.
Both in attendance and in
membership, the 27th annual
meeting of the American Society of Bakery Engineers at
the Edgewater Beach hotel
in Chicago is revealing gains
over last year. Registration as
of March 6 at noon was 1,580.
Glenn E. Hargrave has been
appointed sales
manager of the
Paniplus Co.
and will soon
move to the
Kansas City
headquarters of
the company.
Hargrave
That the American government's proposed program
of famine relief for India
could be carried out most
effectively by including flour
milled in the United States in
the shipments, was asserted
by John L. Locke, president
and general manager of the
Fisher Flouring Mills Co., in a
statement.
W. A. Black, 88, who retired
as president of Ogilvie Flour
Mills Co., Ltd. in 1935, died
Feb. 28 at St. Aubin, Jersey,
Channel Islands. MBN
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