Food Roundup: China Ingredient Blacklist, Brown-Forman's Good Quarter, Raids Hurt Meatpackers, And More

(MoneyWatch)  China to Issue Food-Additives Blacklist -- In the wake of the melamine scandal, China says it will identify banned additives. The government also said it would step up product testing. [Source: AP]

Distiller Brown-Forman's Profits Up -- The maker of Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort and Finlandia saw its earnings beat expectations in its second quarter. Booze sales generally hold up well during recessions. [Source: Bloomberg News]

Immigration Raids Causing Worker Shortages for Meatpackers -- Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meatpacker, is struggling to find workers to replace the ones detained in a raid at an Iowa plant in May. The Associated Press reports that such problems "could increasingly face meatpackers across the country if immigration agents continue to conduct mass raids that lead to staffing shortages." [Source: AP]

Safeway Small-Store Test 'Good Not Great' -- The supermarket chain says its Long Beach test store, which opened in May, saw so-so results, according to CEO Steve Burd. He told investors that tentative plans to open 30 to 50 such stores will depend on whether results improve. [Source: Supermarket News]

P&G-Kraft Suit Sent Back to Lower Court -- A federal appeals court sent Procter & Gamble's suit against Kraft Foods back to a district court. The case involves a patent on plastic containers ?€" P&G accuses Kraft of copying its container for Folgers to package Maxwell House coffee. [Source: Reuters]