What does the term GRAS mean? GRAS is an acronym for Generally Recognized As Safe. This is a designation made by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that means the food additives added to a food product are considered to be safe and exempted from the usual Federal Food, [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/12"][/vc_column][vc_column width="10/12"][vc_column_text]In the United States an organic food is USDA certified as compliant to a strict set of requirements as to its production and contents. The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) has rules that the food industry must adhere to – the rules for crops do not allow products to be grown with or [...]
Is there a difference between organic food and natural food? A natural food is merely a marketing term which is added to food labels but there are no real standards that define 'natural'. For a food to be 'organic' it must meet strict definitions. So there's a big difference between [...]
Large Family Farms Dominate U.S. Agricultural Production Sometimes the media give the impression that US agriculture, and particularly the farming segment, is run by large corporate interests. The fact is that the US farming system is dominated by family farms as per this data from the USDA ERS. It found that family [...]
White Oak Pastures is a 3200 acre farm in Blufton Georgia that has been run by the same family for 6 generations. They are leaders in "regenerative farming " which relies on natural processes, instead of hormones, chemicals or disruptive Ag methods. It builds soil health, enhances ecosystem diversity, and shuns most [...]
Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld's broke up the food giant into two separate companies by separating its snack foods lines from its grocery brands. Rosenfeld believed that the snack food company would be a high growth, international business while the grocery company would be a stable but slow growth business. On [...]