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PepsiCo Inc. has become the first major food company to announce that it will remove artificial ingredients from its products to align with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crackdown. PepsiCo’s chairman and CEO, Ramon Laguarta, announced the change in a conference call. Laguarta said the company will remove artificial ingredients and has already begun doing so. “We’ve been leading the transformation of the industry now for a long time on sodium reduction, sugar reduction, and better fats,” Laguarta said. “Sixty percent-plus of our (portfolio) today doesn’t have any artificial colors,” he said — and the...

<p>DALLAS – Arch West, a retired Frito-Lay marketing executive credited with creating Doritos as the first national tortilla chip brand, has died in Dallas at age 97.</p>

Ever have an adult child move back home to take over your house, your phone, your food and make up their own rules in your house? Add to that their being ungrateful about your hospitality because of a sense of entitlement and you get something like this DUmmie THREAD entitled "My mom is SUCH a bitch." Here we see an example of the liberal mindset. A grown person moves in with her mother, presumably because she cannot support herself, and complains about the lack of freedom and privacy. Liberals will talk and talk about a "social safety net;" what...

April 28, 2007 01:39 AM Frito-Lay Products Containing Pork Seasoning ‘Chip’ off Muslim Consumers Worldwide By Rima Abdelkader NEW YORK, 28 April 2007, (Arabisto.com): In the wake of corporate scandals, the “War on Terror” and increasing globalization in this post-9/11 world, most multinational corporations are finding it increasingly difficult to compete worldwide in marketing their products and services to potential buyers and sellers with America’s tarnished image abroad. One American company, Frito-Lay, a United States company that markets a variety of chips and snack foods internationally, has recently drawn much criticism and concern from its Muslim consumers and non-consumers—not for...

Hatteras Island is famous for its shipwrecks. But Thursday locals experienced their first ever "chip-wreck". A cargo container loaded with thousands of bags of Doritos Tortilla Chips washed ashore on the beach near Frisco and broke open. The container apparently fell off a ship. The chips scattered for about a half a mile, and some even floated as far north as the Bonner bridge. Arley Spake photographed the broken container. Spake works for Frito-Lay, the company that makes Doritos. His wife Janice joined him at water's edge. "It was really weird," said Spake. (Arley) was taking pictures for Frito-Lay, we...