Kroger Commits To Cage-Free Eggs By 2025

In its new sustainability report, which includes six new goals, Ohio-based Kroger Co. has pledged to transition to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2025. The nine-year transition will ensure that eggs are readily available, safely produced, and affordably priced, the company said. The company also said it promises to buy 90 percent of its seafood – and all of its wild-caught seafood – from fisheries certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. Regarding the cage-free trend, CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries (Colo.) said its nearly 200 restaurants will transition to serving cage-free eggs by 2022; Sonstegard Foods (S.D.), which earned a zoning permit for the half-million bird cage-free facility in February, has submitted plans to increase the ...  More

"Kroger Makes Sweeping Changes To Eggs It Sells", Cincinnati Business Courier, July 11, 2016

Irish Firm Gets FDA Okay To Sell Store Brand Non-GMO Baby Formula

The FDA has cleared Ireland-based baby formula supplier Perrigo to launch three milk-based, non-GMO products. The store-brand infant formulas are meant to save consumers as much as 45 percent over branded versions, such as the ten varieties marketed by Mead Johnson and Abbott Laboratories. Sales of non-GMO infant formula in the U.S. already exceed $45 million a year.

"Perrigo Gets US FDA Clearance For Own-Label Non-GMO Formula", Just-Food, June 21, 2016