"Tyson Foods" news and stories

Good news for all you poultry lovers out there - Tyson Foods has announced that they will no longer use antibiotics to raise chicken that is sold fresh in stores.

Almost half of their production facilities will be converted to produce the new antibiotic-free chicken products, and they are planning to launch a $70 million ad campaign to promote the hell out of it. Needless to say you can expect the price to go up, though the chief exec of Tyson has stated that the increase will be less than $1 a pound.

The new product has already been shipped to some stores, and are now labeled as having no artificial ingredients.

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Two of the largest US food manufacturers have declared that they will not use ingredients from China. This order comes from Mission Foods Corp and Tyson Foods after pet foods made from contaminated wheat products from China killed and sickened cats and dogs in the US.

However, the Los Angeles Times asks if this actually a realistic directive, given that China is the world's leading supplier of many food flavorings like vanilla and citric acid, vitamins and preservatives. Last year, China exported $2.5 billion of food ingredients. That's a lot of ingredients that Tyson and Mission will have to find elsewhere.

The Culinary Institute of America has launched an R&D program with several leading food-service players, including The Coca-Cola Co. and Campbell Soup Co. Who knew that the CIA was involved in food-service research? In my mind it's always been more well-known for turning out top chefs.

The other partners in the CIA's Menu R&D and Flavor Discovery Initiative are Tyson Foods and Ventura Foods. Each founding partner has ponied up $250,000 toward the project, which will focus on food science as it pertains to food service.

Applied research that can be published in trade journals is one of the venture's primary goals. The research areas will include flavor discovery, consumer preference and emerging food-service technologies. Perhaps the program's findings will help Hardee's come up with a salad that doesn't break the 800-calorie mark.

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