Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:2264), a leading Japanese dairy product company, today announced that its recently launched “Immunogenics” ingredient LAC-Shield will now be marketed overseas. The product, a heat-killed strain of beneficial Lactobacillus bacteria (Lactobacillus paracasei MCC1849), has been clinically shown to have immune-enhancing benefits. Yet because it has been pasteurized, LAC-Shield does not pose the stability issues of traditional probiotics. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170906005110/en/

Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recentglobal dairy processing equipment marketreport until 2021

The Fernbridge Humboldt Creamery facility will stop processing fluid milk on an undetermined date; instead it will send the milk down to a Modesto facility for processing before it ends up on store shelves

For years, finding the smallest metal contaminants has been a challenge for many bakery, meat, poultry, seafood, ready meal and dairy food producers due to a phenomenon known as 'product effect'. Product effect (where a product's own characteristics inhibit a metal detector's ability to inspect products with a high moisture or salt content, variable temperature, or packed in metallised film) has reduced detection sensitivities significantly below the levels achieved when inspecting dry non-conductive food products

Rotunda Capital Partners, LLC (Rotunda Capital), a lower middle-market private equity firm, has acquired IF&P Foods, LLC (IF&P)