Nonfoods

LOS ANGELES - Kroger-owned Ralphs Grocery Co. today opened its first supermarket in the Downtown Los Angeles area in more than 50 years.

NEW YORK -- The average face value (AFV) for free standing insert (FSI) coupons increased 4.3 percent to $1.23 in the first six months of 2007 to become the highest half year increase on record, according to a mid-year trends report released yesterday by Marx Promotion Intelligence, a division of TNS Media Intelligence.

WASHINGTON DC -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday issued a warning to consumers not to eat certain cans of a hot dog chili sauce under several brands including Kroger's private label, due to a risk of botulism poisoning. Two children in Texas and an Indiana couple who ate these products became seriously ill and have been hospitalized, FDA said.

ARLINGTON, Va. - Ed Hagan, director of pharmacy for retailer-owned cooperative wholesaler Associated Food Stores, Salt Lake City, testified yesterday on behalf of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee, about the potentially devastating effect of a new generic prescription reimbursement rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

ARLINGTON, Va. - Ed Hagan, director of pharmacy for retailer-owned cooperative wholesaler Associated Food Stores, Salt Lake City, testified yesterday on behalf of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee, about the potentially devastating effect of a new generic prescription reimbursement rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a bid to fend off mandatory regulation and potential litigation amid an epidemic of childhood obesity, 11 food companies yesterday said they would set voluntary controls on their marketing to children.

WASHINGTON DC -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday issued a warning to consumers not to eat certain cans of a hot dog chili sauce under several brands including Kroger's private label, due to a risk of botulism poisoning. Two children in Texas and an Indiana couple who ate these products became seriously ill and have been hospitalized, FDA said.

WASHINGTON DC -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday issued a warning to consumers not to eat certain cans of a hot dog chili sauce under several brands including Kroger's private label, due to a risk of botulism poisoning. Two children in Texas and an Indiana couple who ate these products became seriously ill and have been hospitalized, FDA said.