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FDA Examining Caffeine Content

The Food and Drug Administration is closely watching the marketing of food companies who are betting on snacks like potato chips, jelly beans and gum with a caffeinated kick.
May 2, 2013
The agency is already investigating the safety of energy drinks and energy shots, prompted by consumer reports of illness and death.
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Britvic Expanding Options in U.S.

Britvic Worldwide Brands announced the debut of Robinsons Fruit Shoot Concentrate in Birmingham and throughout Alabama.
April 29, 2013
Britvic, along with premier bottler Buffalo Rock, is now bringing the novelty of a concentrate to families in the United States.
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New Ciders from Angry Orchard

The cider makers at the Angry Orchard Cider Company have been hard at work on a new project – The Cider House Collection.
April 26, 2013
Angry Orchard Iceman, inspired by traditional Quebec ice ciders, and Angry Orchard Strawman, a farmhouse cider, are the result of experimentation with apple varieties, wood-aging techniques and fermentation methods.
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BEVERAGES

Soft Drinks and Diabetes Risk

Regularly drinking just one sugar-packed soft drink raises the danger of suffering from the condition by 22%.
April 26, 2013
Furthermore, the risk rises with each drink; every extra can increases the danger by more than a fifth.
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Coffee and Cancer Treatment

Coffee may actually help to prevent breast cancer from relapsing in women taking the drug Tamoxifen.
April 26, 2013
Patients who took the pill Tamoxifen along with two or more cups of coffee daily, reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence compared to those who took the pill but drank only one cup or less.
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New COO at Autocrat

Autocrat LCC has announced the promotion of Stephen M. Olyha from vice president sales to chief operating officer (COO).
April 26, 2013
Olyha brings to the company over 25 years professional experience across multiple business environments.
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Caffeine

Caffeine and Cognition

A recent study has added new evidence to caffeine's effect on cognitive performance in children and teens.
April 25, 2013
A total of of 96 children and adolescents were given caffeine or placebo and then put through memory tests, reaction time tests, and color-word tasks.
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Starbucks green coffee

Going Global--Beverages

Green coffee extract makes its way into Canada, while other countries around the world see their own takes on more functional drinks.
April 25, 2013
Starbucks is taking its RTD sparkling green coffee energy beverage, Refreshers, into Canada.
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Alcohol Beverage Sales Rise

A sense of a stabilized economy pushed the beverage alcohol industry in a positive direction in 2012.
April 23, 2013
The beer industry posted its first increase in volume since 2008 to bring the industry to 2.8 billion 2.25-gallon cases.
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Hershey Simple Pleasures

Top CPG Companies

A new study has identified the top-performing companies in the U.S. consumer-packaged-goods industry.
April 22, 2013
Among large companies, the top three performers were Lorillard, the Hershey Company, and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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