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Welcome to the Snack Food Association.

The Snack Food Association (SFA) is the international trade association of the snack food industry representing snack manufacturers and suppliers. SFA represents over 400 companies worldwide. SFA business membership includes, but is not limited to, manufacturers of potato chips, tortilla chips, cereal snacks, pretzels, popcorn, cheese snacks, snack crackers, meat snacks, pork rinds,snack nuts,party mix, corn snacks, pellet snacks, fruit snacks, snack bars, granola, snack cakes, cookies and various other snacks. For a video about membership in SFA, please click HERE.

SFA Disappointed as EPA Denies
Texas Request to Cut Ethanol Mandate.

SFA is disappointed in a decision announced August 7 by the Environmental Protection Agency rejecting a petition by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut by 50% the federal renewable fuels mandate that requires 9 billion gallons of ethanol and other renewable fuels to be blended into gasoline this year.

The petition said the mandate is increasing the price of corn, used to make most ethanol in the U.S. SFA and the Food Before Fuels Campaign strongly supported Perry's initiative. Click here for EPA's decision, press release and related material.

Gov. Perry responded in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article August 12 that EPA should "take a look at reality" and reconsider. 

For more information, please contact Jim McCarthy at 703-836-4500, ext. 202.

SFA Cosponsors Food Before Fuel Campaign

June 18, 2008 – The Food Before Fuel Campaign – a partnership of environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups, including the Snack Food Association, has launched a cooperative effort urging Congress to revisit the nation’s food-to-fuel policies, a key factor in the growing global food crisis.

As part of the campaign, SFA Chairman Daryl Thomas, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Herr Foods, Inc., Nottingham, PA, and President & CEO Jim McCarthy participated in a media conference call June 18 to discuss the urgent need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revisit food-to-fuel mandates given recent flooding in the Midwest and $8 per bushel corn.

Congressional policies require the conversion of more than one-third of all U.S. corn to ethanol, with additional subsidies and tariffs further promoting the diversion of food to fuel. Food policy experts broadly agree that these policies have contributed to record food price inflation, and the International Monetary Fund reports that U.S. food-to-fuel policy is responsible for more than 30% of food price inflation globally.

According to the campaign’s statement of principles, members will encourage policymakers to “revisit and restructure policies that have increased our reliance on food as an energy source, and to carefully address how to develop alternative fuels that do not pit our energy needs against affordable food and environmental sustainability.”

During the media conference call, Thomas, McCarthy and others stressed that June’s flooding in the Midwest will increase corn and other commodity prices which are already skyrocketing because of diversion to ethanol and biodiesel.

For details about the Food Before Fuel Campaign, including a petition urging Congressional action, please click here.

SFA Urges Congress to Reconsider Food-to-Fuel Policies

WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 15, 2008 – In light of dramatic increases in food prices and the environmental costs of fuels derived from food crops, Congress should revisit federal food-to-fuel mandates and subsidies, a top official of a Pennsylvania-based snack foods company told Congress today.

“Although many factors are contributing to the sharp increase in food prices, the only factor affecting food and feed prices that is under the control of Congress is federal food-to fuel mandates and subsidies diverting food into fuel production,” Daryl Thomas, senior vice president, sales and marketing, for Herr Foods, Inc., Nottingham, PA, told the House Small Business Committee during a hearing on the impact of food prices on small business. Thomas is chairman of the Snack Food Association (SFA).

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Daryl Thomas, senior vice president, sales and marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., testifies at Congress for SFA.

New Online Member Education Programs From SJU & OSU Available

The Snack Food Association, in conjunction with Ohio State University (OSU) and St Joseph’s University (SJU), is now offering on-line courses in food science and food marketing for SFA member company associates.

The program was developed in conjunction with the two universities to provide SFA member company personnel easy access to continuing education at a reduced cost for tuition for SFA members. The program offers courses in key disciplines requested by SFA members.

A series of new SJU marketing courses will be available early in 2008, and for a limited time all SJU courses will be offered to SFA members tuition-free.

To learn more, click HERE.

Past News Headlines


Click above for special pricing and rebates on a wide variety of delivery vehicle products and supplies.

FleetXchange webcast: SFA members participated in a Web cast and learned about the benefits of the FoodFleetXchange program sponsored by SFA specifically for SFA members. Representatives of AmeriQuest Transportation Services, which operates the FleetXchange program, explained the benefits this online buying and information service can provide, including significant savings, and how to get started. Click HERE to download the Power Point Presentation utilized in this presentation.

SNACK ON THIS! Lisa Katic, a registered dietitian, is SFA’s public policy advisor on nutrition and health. Click HERE for her past monthly columns.

Snack Fit, Choose Balance Brochure

The Snack Fit, Choose Balance Brochure is an ideal promotion piece to provide to your customers. The brochure contains a meal plan which includes snacks, information on benefits offered by a variety of snacks, and web resources on how to get active. The brochure also offers a space for SFA companies to place their logo and contact information. Price is per case of 2000, $60 members and $120 non-members.Please click HERE for a PDF download of the Brochure.

FDA Inspection Manual is Now Avalible

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2007 Inspection Manual now known as The Investigations Operations Manual (IOM) is now availible on the FDA website. This manual is the primary source guidance document on FDA inspection policy and procedures for field investigators and inspectors. To download a copy of this manual, please visit FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7pubs.html

 

 

 

 

 

Call for Circle of Honor Nominations

The prestigious Circle of Honor Award, which recognizes the achievements of snack food industry executives who have been leaders in their companies and the association, will be presented at SNAXPO 2009 on March 30 in Orlando, FL.

SFA member companies are asked to select one nominee for consideration and to submit that name no later than August 25, 2008. The nominee can be either a domestic or international, business or associate member of SFA, either living or deceased. To be eligible, the nominee should have contributed to the development and growth of his/her company and the growth of the association and industry, either in the U.S. or abroad.

Previous winners were:

2007 — Bill Mann & Bill Huggins, Pretzels, Inc., Business Member
2005 — Michael Rice, Utz Quality Foods, Inc., Business Member
2003 — Warren Brown, Wyandot, Inc., Business Member
2001 -- John Rudolph, Rudolph Foods Co., Inc., Business Member
1999 — Les Mapp, Mike-sell’s Potato Chip Co., Business Member; John Kelly, Kelley Perry, Associate Member; Heinz Flessner, Bahisen, International Member
1998 — Leonard Japp, Sr., Jays Foods, Business Member; Miles Willard, Miles Willard Technologies, Associate Member; Ryuichi Ishida, Ishida Co. Ltd., International Member; Dr. Wilbur Gould, Lifetime Achievement
1997 — James S. Herr, Herr Foods Inc., Business Member; Clark K. Benson, Heat and Control, Inc., Associate Member
1996 — Harvey F. Noss, Founder, SFA, Business Member; William H. Bryce, Jr., Bryce Corp., Associate Member
1995 — Sloan Bashinsky, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Business Member; Daniel E. Woodman, Woodman Company, Associate Member
1994 — Herman W. Lay, Frito-Lay, Inc., Business Member; J. Erskine love, Jr., Printpack Inc., Associate Member

For a nomination form, please click HERE. For more information, please contact Liz Wells at 703-836-4500, ext. 202.

Circle of Honor winner William Huggins, co-owner of Pretzels, Inc., with Terry Groff, President and CEO of Reading Bakery Systems at SNAXPO 07

Announcing

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SFA Knowledge Center

Online training in food marketing and the food sciences.

In Plant Food Safety Training Sessions offered through American Institute of Baking International . Please click HERE.

Teach kids to eat for energy, get active and get fit! Click here for more details

 
Events

Total Quality Management: September 8-12, 2008, Ohio State University. Click HERE for a brochure, HERE for a word file. For streaming video from a previous course, click HERE.

Executive Leadership Forum:  Click HERE to register and for additional information.

Click HERE for the complete Calendar of Events.

Click HERE for advertising opportunities in Snack World Magazine.  Click HERE for the latest issue.

SNAXPO 2009 Announced

Food Safety and Nutrition

The Snack Food Association supports efforts to protect consumers from unsafe food products and substances. SFA also works hard to assure that its members are kept up to date on governmental food safety regulations and requirements.

For more information on such issues as they affect snack products, click here.

 
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