By the end of 2020, Dietz & Watson deli slicing meats — including turkey, chicken breast, ham and roast beef — will be uncured. The Philadelphia-based company will not use nitrates or nitrites in their curing process for these products.
In a move to grow Canadian sales, Vancouver, British Columbia-based Oppy has promoted David Wazny to sales manager of the team based in the company’s Vancouver headquarters and Colbert Rahal to a newly created role of sales manager of eastern Canada.
Smaller households, time-starved consumers and a desire to prevent food waste are among the factors driving demand for single-serve packaging in the grocery fresh perimeter.
The U.S. has withdrawn from an agreement with Mexico on tomatoes, a decision that will open the door to investigations that Mexico dumped fresh-market tomatoes in U.S. markets at below-market prices.
Automation, packaged refrigeration, packaging flexibility and new ideas in food safety design are among the trends in construction of production facilities for suppliers of grocery fresh perimeter items.