Nonfoods

New York-based ScanAvert (www.scanavert.com) launched its ScanAvert mobile application — which can be used on iPhones and select mobile phones — to give consumers a means of detecting harmful or specified ingredients in food, beverages, and OTC drug products, supplements or vitamins that may cause an undesired reaction or unhealthy consumption, on a real-time automated basis, in any place where those items are sold, prepared, or served.

As a way to celebrate its 25th anniversary of doing business, BJ’s Wholesale Club is asking the communities in which it operates clubs to amass 25 tons of groceries to help feed area needy families.

Guiding Stars Licensing Co. (GSLC) has teamed up with an iPhone shopping assistant application, ReachEverywhere’s Shopper, to offer busy shoppers access to its “Guiding Stars” good-better-best rating system.

For the first quarter of its fiscal 2010, a 12-week period ending Sept. 16, Winn-Dixie Stores posted a net loss of $8.1 million, or 15 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter, including an impairment charge of $3.5 million, or six cents per diluted share related to six stores. In the year-ago period, Winn-Dixie reported a net loss of $2.3 million, or four cents per diluted share.

Wine is back on the table for Tennessee state lawmakers, as a panel considers whether supermarkets and convenience stores should be allowed to sell the alcoholic beverage, reopening the ongoing fight over the state’s liquor laws, according to a published report.

ConAgra Foods debuted a fresh campaign last week touting the Manwich as a sloppy joe sauce with a full serving of vegetables. The move comes as consumers turn to iconic brands and shelf-stable goods in a recession.

The latest way to better digestive health from Boulder, Colo.-based NextFoods is GoodBelly BigShot 50, a supercharged dose of 50 billion live and active cultures that features the powerful probiotic strain Lactobacillus Plantarum 299v (Lp299v).

As major autumn and winter professional sports events beckon, the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) has rolled out a game day entertaining marketing campaign encouraging consumers to further incorporate Hass avocados into their game day entertaining.