Food processing sector needs Rs 1,000 cr allocation: Sahai (Business Standard India) - The food processing sector needs a minimum of Rs 1,000 crore Budgetary support to strengthen infrastructure, Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahai today said.

India invites investment in food processing (New Kerala) - New Delhi, March 10: India Wednesday invited investment in the food processing industry to raise the processing levels of its agricultural produce from the current 10 percent to 20 percent.

ROCK DOC: New approach to canning food (The San Angelo Standard-Times) - If you are ever cut off from supermarkets and electricity because of a natural disaster (or because like some of us idiots you choose to go camping), you will be especially interested in this news. And even if your only interest in daily life is eating well, read on for the glad tidings that’s coming about how we will soon better process and store food in this country.

Poor equipment design compromising food safety, EHEDG (Food Production Daily) - The EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group) is a consortium of equipment manufacturers, food industries, research institutes, universities and public health authorities, founded in 1989 with the aim of promoting hygiene during the processing and packing of food products.

Statement by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union on President's Obama's Speech at the Export ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - WASHINGTON----The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union represents more than 250,000 men and women who work in the food processing and packing industries. Thousands of these jobs are linked to food exports.

Violence rife in food factories (Gulf Times) - Thousands of workers in Britain’s lucrative food industry are being subjected to widespread mistreatment and exploitation, including physical and verbal abuse and degrading working conditions, according to an inquiry published yesterday.

Food sector faces sweeping antitrust investigation (Los Angeles Times) - Officials are looking into the gaps between what farmers earn and what shoppers pay at the grocery store. The Justice Department and the USDA pledge an examination of alleged monopolistic practices. U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and a team of top federal officials on Friday pledged a sweeping examination of alleged monopolistic practices in the food sector, and promised to bust those who violate ...

Revealed: Violence and abuse suffered by thousands of workers in food factories supplying major supermarkets (Daily Mail) - The Equality and Human Rights Commission condemned big stores after finding out workers suffer degrading and humiliating treatment in processing plants.

IFA chief stresses need to leave food remit with Department of Agriculture (Irish Examiner) - TAOISEACH Brian Cowen was urged yesterday to retain food in the remit of the Department of Agriculture.

A vision for Michigan's food system (Traverse City Record-Eagle) - We envision a thriving economy, equity and sustainability for all of Michigan and its people through a food system rooted in local communities and centered on Good Food -- food that is healthy, green, fair and affordable. This is the vision that food system stakeholders sought to realize through formation of a strategic plan at the Michigan Good Food Summit held Feb. 25 in Lansing.