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Less than a week after reports that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts was in talks to buy Del Monte, the food producer says it is indeed being bought by a group of private-equity investors led by KKR. It joins a crop of other companies that have been taken private this year.

Private equity fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is in talks to buy Del Monte Foods Co., (DLM) Reuters reported. KKR made an offer worth $18.50 a share for Del Monte, Reuters reported without naming its sources. That would value Del Monte, which makes canned food and pet food, at about $3.58...

Leading brand name food and beverage companies, including those who make Healthy Choice and Chef Boyardee, have begun phasing out the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) amid growing consumer and regulatory concern about the health risk it poses, a new report says. The report, by...

Cash register receipts issued by several major retailers -- Walmart, McDonalds, Safeway, even Whole Foods -- contain the controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A, adding to an increasing number of ways the substance comes in contact with the public, says an environmental advocacy...

A leading environmental group has sued the Food and Drug Administration for dragging its feet on its request 20 months ago to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical, in food packaging. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed the lawsuit in a federal appeals court after giving the...

Bisphenol A (also known as BPA) in baby bottles may have been worth freaking out about -- the exposure of this endocrine disruptor to such developing bodies was an unconscionable risk. But that's really just a small part of our collective cultural exposure to this chemical (and a host of others,...