| July 7, 2011 | News for the food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry |  |  |
- Jamaica Tea brews iced-tea success
Peter Hackett started the Jamaica Tea company about three years ago, when his wife Nicole, pregnant at the time, developed a craving for the Mexican iced-tea drink agua de Jamaica. Now, the company sells its iced-tea and iced-coffee drinks to retailers including Whole Foods stores in California's Bay Area. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (7/6)        |  |  | | AOL Reduces Data Center Energy Consumption With Raritan's Help
AOL needed accurate power measurements of servers, routers & switches to improve their data centers’ overall energy efficiency. They also wanted to measure energy consumption at each power outlet to gather an accurate picture of energy usage. Find out how Raritan answered the challenge with a solution providing management, charting and reporting capabilities. | |  |  |  |
 - GMA's Bailey: Trade agreements will create jobs
Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of GMA, writes that approval of trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea will add jobs by boosting exports. "With the global economy strengthening, the food and beverage industry has an opportunity to create more jobs in the U.S. by selling even more of our products to consumers worldwide," she writes. U.S. Trade Representative blog (6/30) | - Guiding Stars' nutrition algorithm gains patent
Guiding Stars Licensing was granted a U.S. patent for its nutrition algorithm. "Obtaining this patent is a vitally important step toward demonstrating Guiding Stars' commitment to innovation and transparency in the marketplace," said Managing Director Betts FitzGerald. The company analyzes food's nutritional value and gives a score of zero to three stars. Progressive Grocer (7/6)  - P&G pet food renews European transport deal
Procter & Gamble has extended its deal with P&O Ferrymasters to deliver IAMS pet food via trimodal Euroterminal Coevorden near Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "More and more forward-thinking businesses with their fingers on the 'green' logistics pulse are switching from road transport to pioneering intermodal solutions," said an official with P&O Ferrymasters. LogisticsManager.com (U.K.) (7/6)  | Advertising & Marketing |  |  | | - GOP provision would delay regulation of food ads for children
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., has proposed requiring a cost-benefit analysis before voluntary guidelines can go into effect for food ads aimed at children, saying the standards "would lead to extraordinary pressure from the federal government." Other Republican lawmakers say the guidelines overreach by covering too many foods, including healthy ones such as whole wheat bread. The Federal Trade Commission, which developed the voluntary rules with the FDA and other agencies, is trying to address what it says are myths about the guidelines and says that noncompliance would not have legal consequences. USA TODAY/The Associated Press (7/6)  | Retail Spotlight | | | | | Health & Wellness | | | | - Green tea slightly reduces LDL cholesterol, analysis shows
Green tea lowers LDL, or "bad," cholesterol by about 2% but has no effect on HDL, or "good," cholesterol, according to an analysis of trial data by researchers at China's Peking Union Medical College. The report, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, says chemicals called catechins reduce absorption of cholesterol in the gut. Researchers cautioned that while green tea can be part of a healthy diet, it should not replace medication in people who have high cholesterol. Reuters (7/6) | GMA News | | | |
| Government & Food Safety | | | | - FDA wants more money for food safety
The FDA is trying to add $1.4 billion for food safety to the budget for fiscal 2012, but the House last month voted to trim the food safety budget by 10%, and Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said the food supply is "99.9% safe" so there is no need to increase the budget. GMA's Scott Faber said FDA rules developed in the next two years will "shape food safety for the next few decades." Bloomberg (7/6)
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