Milling & Baking News - July 27, 2021 - 55

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bread fortified with calcium and vitamin
D to its menu.
The board of directors of Kraft Foods
Inc. announced its intent to split into
two publicly-traded companies, with one
focusing on its global snacks business
and the other on its high-margin North
American grocery business.
Subway restaurant chain has added
McDonald's Corp. has unveiled a program
to offer improved nutrition choices
at its restaurants that includes adding
apples to all of its Happy Meals as well as
a pledge to reduce sugars, saturated fats,
sodium and calories.
For the last 85 years, the federal government
has regularly gathered and published
US flour milling production data. From the
perspective of Mary K. Waters, president
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In a transaction that almost doubled its
annual sales volume, CooperSmith,
Inc., the parent of Smith's Bakery, Inc.,
Mobile, Ala., on July 26 acquired Kern's
Bakeries, Inc. from a group of Knoxville
investors.
Robert W. Freihofer,
chairman of the board
of the Charles Freihofer
Baking Co., Albany, NY,
part of General Foods
Bakery Companies, died
July 20 after a lengthy
illness.
Cargill will build a $30 million ethanol
refinery at its corn wet milling plant in
Eddyville, Iowa.
Jack H. Rathbone, 76, a retired flour
milling executive, died July 28 in
Wichita, Kan. Mr. Rathbone was
president and owner of Arnold
Milling Co. at Sterling, Kan.,
until 1956, when he sold the
business.
Miller Milling Co. has
announced plans to begin construction,
almost immediately,
of a new durum mill in the San Joaquin
Valley in central California.
General Mills, Inc. on Aug. 2 completed
the acquisition of the grain merchandising
and handling operations of
Cargill in Montana.
Most flour milling, feed manufacturing
and grain handling facilities
directly damaged by the flooding
waters of the Kaw river more than
two weeks ago are still not in operation
but are working actively to resume
production.
of the North American Millers' Association,
an abrupt decision earlier this year by
the Bureau of the Census to halt this data
could not be more poorly timed.
Worries that fortification of enriched
grains with folic acid could heighten the
risk of colorectal cancer were addressed
in a study published in the July edition of
Gastroenterology magazine. Researchers
concluded that if anything, higher
intake of natural folate, dietary folate
and folic acid were associated with lower
risks of colorectal cancer.
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Frank J. Allen, vice president and general
manager of the Bay State Milling Co.,
is relinquishing his active management
of the company, it was announced July 24
by Paul T. Rothwell, president.
The Senate Subcommittee on Utilization
of Farm Crops of the Senate Committee
on Agriculture issued the final
report of its prolonged investigations
Aug. 1. Part III of this report, covering
" Bread and Bakery Products and the
Flour Milling Industry, " concludes with
recommendations for investigations
of possible price agreements among
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bakers in markets where interstate
commerce is involved; an amendment
to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act, requiring the labeling of bread
or rolls; the restriction of additions to
non-nutritive ingredients
in bread or other food
products, unless they serve
some useful purpose to the
consumer and have first
been certified by the Food
and Drug Administration
to be non-injurious; for an
amendment to require a
minimum fat content for
bread, and for an investigation of the
food law and operations under it with a
view to strengthening the measure.
One of America's most successful milling
enterprises, the Tennant &
Hoyt Co. of Lake City, Minn.,
is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of the
business.
Charles R. Hoyt
The National Biscuit Co. will
cease manufacturing operations
at its bakery in Kansas
City Aug. 31. MBN
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