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A Wisconsin-based company has halted plans to buy the Molson Coors Brewing Co. brewery after negotiations with the local union bogged down, according to the Associated Press. The move comes

Food producer H.J. Heinz Co., recently said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit dropped 19 percent, and said it plans to cut 2,700 jobs—or 8 percent of its workforce—and exit 15 plants

PRNewswire reports that, as a precautionary measure to combat avian flu, the United Nations'' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has asked DuPont to provide initial supplies of its DuPont Virkon®

A man is suing Kraft Foods Inc., claiming he found what appeared to be a rodent tooth in a package of Planters peanuts he bought last year, the Associated Press

According to the Associated Press, workers at a Tyson Foods Inc. meatpacking plant in Kansas have sued the company, alleging it violated federal and state labor laws by not paying

Sara Lee Corp. will close a luncheon meat plant in Ohio this fall, eliminating 350 jobs, the Associated Press reports. Production will move to other food and drink plants, the

An antibiotic plagued by serious blood-sugar complications is coming off the market, the Associated Press reports. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. confirmed recently that it plans to stop making and selling Tequin.

Tyson Foods Inc., the world''s largest meat producer, temporarily shut down nine of its beef and pork plants May 1 because many of its workers planned to attend immigration rallies,

Dow Chemical Co. said its Dow AgroSciences LLC subsidiary is increasing production of its Natreon low-fat cooking oils by 35 percent in North America this year and plans to double

Reuters reports that a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to decide after a long delay whether Novartis AG can market a version of human growth