Retailers can't do anything to keep E. coli out of a batch of frozen hamburgers. But there's plenty they should be doing to make their perishables departments safer for valued shoppers.
LONDON - U.S. regulators are examining whether some of the supplier rebates booked by the U.S. Foodservice unit of Dutch retailer Ahold NV were deliberately inflated, people familiar with the situation told The Wall StreetJournal.
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman on Wednesday criticized a measure passed by Congress which would allow farmers who feed animals conventional meal to label the meat organic if reasonably priced organic grain isn't available.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch retail and foodservice group Ahold said on Wednesday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had started an inquiry into accounting irregularities at the supermarkets group.
WASHINGTON - The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has filed comments estimating that the record-keeping costs to implement the country-of-origin labeling law will be substantially more than the $2 billion estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).