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STR Holdings Sells Quality Assurance Group

STR Holdings is selling its Quality Assurance Segment to Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for $275 million in cash, a move intended to allow STR to focuses exclusively on its solar market.STR's quality assurance division tests and inspects consumer products and will become part of UL's verification se Read More...

Ground Beef Recall Affects Major Grocers' Store Brands

Retailers earlier this month were forced to recall fresh and frozen ground-turkey products after discovering an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella. Now it’s ground beef in the spotlight as several retailers including Publix, Kroger and Winn Dixie are recalling ground beef that may be co Read More...

Donald O. Nicholson Joins STR's Quality Assurance Division

Enfield, Conn. -- Specialized Technology Resources Inc. (STR), a leading global provider of quality assurance services for the consumer products industry, announced that Donald O. Nicholson joined the company’s Quality Assurance Division as Director of Sales North America. Before joining Read More...

SQFI Names Robert Garfield Senior VP

Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) appointed Robert L. Garfield senior vice president responsible for the management of the SQF Institute.Garfield’s responsibilities include strategic planning, business development and financial management. He will also oversee technical development for the SQ Read More...

Food Recalls from Tainted HVP May Increase to 10,000 Products

Experts estimate that salmonella contamination at Basic Food Flavors Inc.’s plant in Las Vegas may result in the recall of as many as 10,000 products, according to several media reports. Retailer store brands affected by the recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP, manufactured by Basi Read More...

GFSI Approves Three New Food Safety Schemes

The board of directors of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) gave full recognition to three new food safety schemes –– FSSC 2200, PrimusGFS and Synergy 22000 –– and maintained the recognition of SQF 1000 Code 5th Edition. Following an extensive benchmarking process, GF Read More...

Creating a Point of Difference With Store Brands

Despite the soft economy, there is a great deal of store brand development occurring in the marketplace, “and the time is now to find ways to make private label growth sustainable through innovation,” said Scott Lucas, executive director of Interbrand, the keynote speaker during Monday&r Read More...

Food Safety: A Store Brand Equity Investment

When it comes to breaches in food safety, the past 18 months have been this country’s worst on record. It started in the summer of 2008 with the Food & Drug Administration’s botched recall and destruction of $40 million of Florida tomatoes believed tainted with Salmonella Saintpaul. Read More...

Store Brands Food Safety Benchmarking Survey Underway

The industry's first benchmarking survey to gauge retailer plans for adopting Global Food Safety Industry (GFSI) certification standards is underway. The survey, underwritten and conducted by Store Brands Decisions, is the first in a series of proprietary studies planned by the digital publisher.&nb Read More...