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Federal regulators warned drug maker Abraxis Bioscience Inc. that its manufacturing procedures do not safeguard its products from possible contamination, the Associated Press reports. The Food and Drug Administration told

A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work on Martin Luther King Jr. day after a union called for a walkout to protest the

South Korea has rejected the latest shipment of U.S. beef and asked Washington to explain why it contained unacceptible levels of the toxic chemical dioxin, the Associated Press reports. According

The Coca-Cola Co. recently sought to block a defense lawyer''s request for documents in a trade secrets theft case that relates to products the world''s largest beverage maker developed but

Kraft Foods Inc. is selling its Maxwell House coffee plant in Houston to Maximus Coffee Group LP for undisclosed terms, bizjournals.com reports. Included in the sale are the buildings, machinery,

The Dow Chemical Company and the Bayer Group have reached agreement for Dow to acquire Bayer''s Wolff Walsrode business group, primarily involved in cellulose products, PRNewswire reports. The transaction is

The Associated Press reports that a dispute involving holiday bonuses led to a brief work stoppage and large police response last Friday at a meat packing plant in suburban Philadelphia,

According to bizjournals.com, SABMiller plc, the owner of Miller Brewing Co. in Milwaukee, plans to spend another $125 million on its brewing operations in India over the next two to

According to the Associated Press, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. said that it will halt its Hawaii operations immediately—well ahead of a 2008 closing announced this year. Del Monte said

Tyson Foods Inc., recently said it reached a nearly $1 million settlement with a group of current and former workers who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit involving actions at the