This round up of new consumer food products includes yummy snacks (combining popcorn, chocolate and peanut butter), taking a detour with beer, finding your MOJO in a bar, mixing it up with Haskap relish and chutney, peanut-free snacks and more for breakfast
Heinz reaches preliminary deal for its Leamington, Ont. facility
Genome Canada announced $17 million in funding will go toward genomics research projects that will help agriculture and agri-food thrive
The University of Guelph received a $20-million donation and will use to create the Arrell Food Institute. The new institute will address food security, safety and sustainability
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture have created the Canadian Agriculture Partnership (CAP) to invest in “strategic agricultural initiatives” in the province
Feds to invest in growing food in the far north
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s outlook sees farm incomes reaching record levels for Canadian farmers in 2015, and remaining above average for 2016
Bioenterprise Corporation and Innovation Guelph say 24 companies are the third round to receive $30,000 each to help with branding, marketing, prototyping and attracting investment
C.H. Robinson has acquired Montreal-based Milgram & Company Ltd. for $62 million
The Nielsen Global Survey About Aging finds retailers in North America are meeting seniors’ needs, but food manufacturers could do more
Supply chain traceability has a common language available, but if people won’t make the investment to use the language, miscommunication will continue.
From apples to vegetables, the taste for innovation grows in Canada
IBM Research and Mars Inc. have formed the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain and hopes “to provide a tool to address threats on an unprecedented scale”
The Food Central Cowork is Western Canada’s first food and agriculture coworking space intentionally designed for innovators
Fumoir Grizzly, the Université Laval and Merinov have developed a bioingredient they call Bac M35 that can keep fish from growing Listeria monocytogenes
Food and beverage processors in B.C. have a new online tool – BC Food Connection – to connect them with co-packers and commercial kitchens to help them grow their businesses