Articles from Food & Drink Weekly (October 16, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A group of international companies have come together to form a new Omega-3 trade association called the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED Omega-3).		Brief article	182
Bush administration dislikes idea of single food safety agency.			117
Clinton cuts deal with snack-food makers to meet guidelines for sales in schools.			415
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings has promoted Rhonda Ramlo to executive vice president of sales and distribution. She replaces Tom Delaplane who is departing the ice cream company after 23 years.			61
E. coli outbreak exposes flaws in U.S. food safety system.			245
Engineering food at molecular level.			249
Hormone-free milk commanding higher prices.			237
National Harvest, LLC announced that it has been acquired by an affiliate of Creo Capital Partners, LLC.		Brief article	92
Poultry processor Gold Kist Inc. said it rejected Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s hostile takeover bid of about $1 billion and filed a lawsuit to stop the rival poultry producer from trying to elect its own officers to Gold Kist's board of directors.			119
Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens.			44
Rick Schwein has been elected chairman of the North American Millers' Association. He is president of Grain Millers Canada Corp., and a senior vice president for Grain Millers, Inc.			59
Study finds cola consumption weakens women's bones.			331
The chief marketing officer and customer officer and executive vice president of Kellogg, Alan F. Harris, has announced his intention to retire at the end of January.			86
The first method uses a laser to detect and identify many types of bacteria, and is about three times faster and one-tenth as expensive as current technology.			75
The National Pork Producers Council has named Dallas Hockman vice president of industry relations, a new position that focuses on building relationships with pork producers, processors and allied industries.			92
The Nunes Company Inc.			106
The United States and Canada have agreed to lift almost all import restrictions on certain Quebec agricultural products after a highly pathogenic potato parasite was found on a farm.			87
United Natural Foods has promoted Mark Shamber to the position of vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Shamber has served as the company's acting CFO and treasurer since January.			43
Wild Oats Markets has announced that Roger Davidson will join its senior executive team as senior vice president of merchandising and marketing beginning on October 30.			91