Despite great efforts by American Samoa’s StarKist plant to recruit new employees, its pool of workers remains insufficient to keep operations running as usual. In light of this, the company’s...
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Tuna Non-Compliants Get Grace Period Prior To New Law In Mexico
The Mexican government is moving forward to regulate the content of soy and other ingredients in canned tuna sold nationally. Last year, a law was announced which was set to come into effect...
John West Australia Launches Innovative High Calcium Tuna Powder Cans
Do you want healthy bones? Then John West Australia Calcium Rich Tuna is the one for you or at least that is what the brand seems to be saying with the launch of its new product range....
StarKist Donates Tuna Products For Disaster Relief
This week, StarKist donated USD 25,000 worth of tuna products to support stricken families who were hard-hit by the recent winter storm in the Dallas metro area in Texas. The multi-million...
Online Conversational Analytics Helps Tuna Brands Grow Their Business
Tuna companies are using conversational analytics to track and measure consumers’ likes and dislikes as well as to discover new product possibilities. In the US, StarKist has been using this...
US Seafood Organization Wants Regulators To Enforce ‘Glazing’ Rules
The US needs its authorities to better enforce the regulation for glazing in the tuna and seafood industry, expressed a seafood trading body in the country. Recently, John Connelly, President...
Century Pacific’s Tuna Plant Saves Millions Of Liters Of Water
Philippine’s leading tuna firm, Century Pacific Food, announced that during 2020 it found a way to reduce its tuna facility's freshwater consumption by as much as 30 percent. In a press...
Spanish Company Will Increase Loins Production With New Plant
The Spanish company Actemsa has announced its intentions to build a new tuna loins plant in the country, according to its statement to the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Galicia. José...
Judge: StarKist Violated Washington’s Consumer Protection By Fixing Prices
A federal judge in the state of Washington has declared that the US leading canned tuna company StarKist was guilty of price-fixing shelf-stable tuna from November 2011 through December 2013...
Thai Union Records Highest Net Profit Ever
Spurred by the great sales in the ambient tuna and seafood segment, global company Thai Union (TU) ended 2020 with exceptional financial performance. The company had a 20 percent year-on-year...
Saupiquet Introduces “Unique Dual-Certified” Premium Skipjack In France
French consumers will soon be able to get their hands on more sustainable skipjack canned tuna in their retail stores. This week during the 5th edition of Responsible Fishing Week,...
US Seafood Trade Body Head Wants More Truth In Plant-Based Foods Labeling
In recent years, there has been an increasing number of alternative or vegan foods bearing fish, seafood, and meat names. This has caused much debate in the different industries, especially...
Japan & UN To Help Boost Iran’s Tuna Supply Chain
Japan’s government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have signed a funding agreement for a project to promote the sustainable development of the tuna value...
Jealsa Closes 2020 With €701 Mil Worth Of Sales
The President of Jealsa, Jesús Manuel Alonso Escurís, has announced that the Spanish tuna company will close 2020 with a year-on-year sales increase of 11 percent. He added that even though...
US Court Dismisses Sore Throat Lawsuit Against StarKist
An American woman’s lawsuit against StarKist was thrown out by a New Jersey appeals court for the second time in two years. She alleged that she got a sore throat after eating StarKist tuna...
TU Partners With Thai Food Chain For DIY Canned Tuna Salad
Thai Union (TU) has partnered with a well-known restaurant chain in Thailand, After Yum, which is famous for its spicy salad menus. The result is a DIY spicy tuna salad in a can which aims to...
Soon Robots Could Be Butchering And Cleaning Tuna For Canning
An EU project has introduced new technologies for the tuna industry, aiming to automate the preparation prior to canning with the help of robotics to increase the European processing sector's...
Is Subway Court Case Based On Fake News?
The largest fast-food chain in the US, Subway, was sued by a group of Californian customers in January for allegedly selling tuna sandwiches and wraps that do not contain any tuna. The...
Dutch Co. To Rename Plant-Based Tuna After TUNO Moniker Dispute
Dutch-based company, Schouten Europe B.V., has decided to change the name for its plant-based tuna alternative product. A legal complaint was brought against it by Atlantic Natural Foods (ANF)...
Readers: Cell-Based Tuna Will Not Take Off Soon
Considering the several investments made recently in the cell-based tuna sector, Atuna turned to its readers to ask whether they thought cell-based grown tuna would take off within the next...