Candy makers

Kraut, A., Peng, Z., Becker, A. B., and Warren, C. P. (1992). Christmas candy maker s asthma. IgG4-mediated pectin allergy. Chest 102,1605-1607. 

Licorice is one of the most widely investigated plant products. Modern chemistry has allowed for the isolation, separation, and characterization of dozens of different compounds found in the root extract. No single component accounts for licorice s distinctive flavor, but anethole comes close. This compound occurs in the anise plant, from which it can be extracted, or it can be synthesized in the laboratory. Candy makers commonly use anethole to impart a licorice flavor to their products, like that black stringy confection. This is why naming the treat licorice is misleading. Even when it is made with real licorice extract, the concentration of licorice compounds is very low. We should be aware of this, because it means that neither the problems nor the potential therapeutic effects that we attribute to real licorice apply to the twists we chew on in movie theaters. Real licorice twists do exist, though — mostly in Europe. 

Given these circumstances, would you, for example, require soft-drink or candy makers to eliminate caffeine from their products Children are major consumers of caffeine-containing soft drinks and chocolate. Would you require warning or caution labels on caffeine products, as are required for tobacco products and alcoholic beverages Why or why not ... 

A quickly implemented SAP ERP system kept candy maker Hershey from delivering its products to meet the peak Halloween demand — despite having plenty of inventory. 

In 1958 Van Ameringen merged with a leading Dutch company by whom he had been employed before setting up his own company in New York. The new company, named International Flavor and Fragrances, became an immediate success in Europe, where it focused on food flavors. Facilities were quickly established in Holland, Switzerland, France, and Brazil. Within two years, makers of food products in these countries were employing IFF flavors to produce cake mixes, gelatin deserts, candies, and even over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. By 1960 the new flavors division accounted for 35 percent of the 34.2 million total sales of the new company. 

In 1968, when Olin Mathieson spun off Squibb to its shareholders, Squibb CEO Richard Furland, who had been an Olin lawyer, immediately acquired another of Olin Mathieson s subsidiaries. Beechnut, makers of candy, chewing gum, and other products (which in turn had recently bought Dobbs House, a food service company). The next year Furland obtained the animal health business of the Swiss drug company Ciba. In 1970 he rounded out... 

The Jupiter Chocolate Company is a well-known maker of candy bars. The content of fat in these bars is critical. Company specifications call for not less than 30% and not more than 40% fat in each candy bar. Jupiter has contracted with us to monitor fat content in their products. Our task will be to quantitatively determine the % fat in a variety of their bars and report back to Jupiter with our results. 

---