The Top Seven News Events of 2023

2023 certainly held its share of remarkable food & beverage industry news events. As we kick off the new year – after a usually quiet week on the news front – we look back on the top seven news events of the past year; see below.
Dec. 30, 2023

Here are our picks for the top news events of 2023:

FDA (finally) restructures
Child & immigrant labor in food plants
Palmer Chocolate explosion kills seven
Cultured meat (finally) approved
California bans four food ingredients
Russia seizes assets of Danone, Carlsberg
Kellogg (finally) splits into two companies

About the Author

Dave Fusaro

Editor in Chief

Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.

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