Nonfoods

MONTREAL, CANADA - Global food trends will take center stage at the fourth edition of SIAL Montreal, a food products exhibit scheduled here next month.

NATICK, Mass. -- Food sales continue to grow at BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., which said yesterday that total sales for the month of January 2007 grew 8.5 percent, to $724.2 million, from $667.7 million in the year-ago period. On a comparable-club basis, January sales went up 3.5 percent, including a contribution from sales of gasoline of about 0.3 percent.

IRVINE, Calif. - While federal lawmakers listened to testimony from leaders of the produce and meat industry yesterday during the first in a series of hearings examining the allegedly flawed national food safety framework, Western Growers Association (WGA) here was cheering the green light given this week by California officials for the farm industry's plan to establish voluntary safety standards for leafy vegetables.

NORWALK, Conn. -- The Stew Leonard III Children's Charities here said it has released a children's storybook "The Healthy Way," seeking to show youngsters "how to incorporate healthy eating and activity in a fun, engaging way."

IRVINE, Calif. - While federal lawmakers listened to testimony from leaders of the produce and meat industry yesterday during the first in a series of hearings examining the allegedly flawed national food safety framework, Western Growers Association (WGA) here was cheering the green light given this week by California officials for the farm industry's plan to establish voluntary safety standards for leafy vegetables.

WATSONVILLE, Cal. -- Some 200 industry representatives gathered here at the first California Strawberry Food Safety Summit to hear a panel of prominent experts, industry leaders and regulators from the front lines of food safety.

WATSONVILLE, Cal. -- Some 200 industry representatives gathered here at the first California Strawberry Food Safety Summit to hear a panel of prominent experts, industry leaders and regulators from the front lines of food safety.

NORWALK, Conn. -- The Stew Leonard III Children's Charities here said it has released a children's storybook "The Healthy Way," seeking to show youngsters "how to incorporate healthy eating and activity in a fun, engaging way."