NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 2, 2025--
IFF (NYSE: IFF), a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, will showcase how it is helping the global baking industry overcome some of its toughest challenges at the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) 2025 in Las Vegas. From soaring cocoa and egg prices to stricter regulations and rising demand for healthier baked goods, IFF is stepping forward with bold, science-led solutions designed to keep industrial bakers ahead of the curve.
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“The industry is under pressure from every direction — supply chains, regulations and consumer expectations,” said Suzanne Pera, vice president and regional general manager for North America, IFF Food Ingredients. “Our message at IBIE is simple: Bakers don’t have to face these challenges alone. We bring unmatched expertise across the entire process, from formulation to shelf. We’re not just helping bakers adapt — we’re helping them win.”
Addressing the cost of volatility
With cocoa prices doubling and egg supplies remaining strained, IFF CURE™ — a comprehensive suite of Core and Uncommon Replacements and Extenders — offers solutions that maintain taste and texture while reducing reliance on volatile commodities. At the booth, visitors can sample 50 percent egg-reduced cupcakes and 30 percent cocoa-reduced brownies made with proprietary enzyme blends, system blends and natural flavors.
Navigating regulatory shifts
With certain food dyes now banned and the industry reevaluating what quantifies as “healthy,” bakers face increasing reformulation demands. IFF spotlights natural color alternatives, label-friendly hydrocolloids and shelf-life extension solutions that keep products compliant without sacrificing sensory appeal.
Meeting the health-conscious consumer
GLP-1 users are reshaping food and beverage demand, while shoppers broadly seek lower sugar, more protein and label-friendly bakery options. The prototypes reflect how IFF translates consumer and regulatory insights into market-ready products, featuring better-for-you concepts like high-protein tortillas and consumer-validated nutrition bars fortified with SOLAE ® SUPRO ® soy protein and LITESSE ® ULTRA prebiotic fiber.
Breakthrough baking technologies debut
IFF will debut DANISCO ® GRINDSTED ® Pectin FB 420, a bake-stable pectin made from citrus peels. This naturally sourced, label-friendly alternative to starch enhances flavor release and mouthfeel, while delivering a bright, glossy texture in reduced-sugar bakery applications. Also launching is POWERFRESH ® ACE 2000, a next-generation fresh-keeping enzyme that improves bread softness, resilience and cohesiveness for up to 34 days.
“We are not just displaying ingredients,” said Linda Dunning, applications director, North America, IFF Food Ingredients. “We are showing how real-world solutions can raise the game for bakers — ideas that work in the lab, are scalable in production and stand out on the shelf.”
Attendees will experience go-to-market applications, designed to inspire product innovations while solving some of the baking industry’s toughest challenges. IFF will be at IBIE 2025 from Sept. 14-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth 3855.
To learn more about IFF at IBIE and its bold, future-forward baking solutions, visit the IFF IBIE 2025 page here.
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IFF Tackles Top Challenges in Baking at IBIE 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American Samoa, one of numerous cases that have drawn attention to the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory.
In arguments Thursday, attorneys for Tupe Smith plan to ask the Alaska Court of Appeals in Anchorage to reverse a lower court's decision that let stand the indictment brought against her. Her supporters say she made an innocent mistake that does not merit charges, but the state contends Smith falsely and deliberately claimed citizenship.
Prosecutors also have brought charges against 10 other people from American Samoa in the small Alaska community of Whittier, including Smith’s husband and her mother-in-law. American Samoa is the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship by being born on American soil and instead are considered U.S. nationals. Paths to citizenship exist, such as naturalization, though that process can be expensive and cumbersome.
American Samoans can serve in the military, obtain U.S. passports and vote in elections in American Samoa, but they cannot hold public office in the U.S. or participate in most U.S. elections.
About 25 people gathered on a snowy street outside the courthouse before Thursday's hearing to support Smith. One woman, Fran Seager of Palmer, held a sign that said, “Support our Samoans. They are US nationals.”
Smith's husband, Michael Pese, thanked the American Samoa community in the Anchorage area. “If it wasn’t for you guys, I wouldn’t be strong enough to face this head on,” he said.
State Sen. Forrest Dunbar, a Democrat who attended the rally, said the Alaska Department of Law has limited resources.
“We should be going after people who are genuine criminals, who are violent criminals, or at least have the intent to deceive,” he said. “I do not think it is a good use of our limited state resources to go after these hardworking, taxpaying Alaskans who are not criminals.”
Smith was arrested after winning election to a regional school board in 2023. She said she relied on erroneous information from local election officials when she identified herself as a U.S. citizen on voter registration forms.
In a court filing in 2024, one of her previous attorneys said that when Smith answered questions from the Alaska state trooper who arrested her, she said she was aware that she could not vote in presidential elections but was “unaware of any other restrictions on her ability to vote.”
Smith said she marks herself as a U.S. national on paperwork. But when there was no such option on voter registration forms, she was told by city representatives that it was appropriate to mark U.S. citizen, according to the filing.
Smith “exercised what she believed was her right to vote in a local election. She did so without any intent to mislead or deceive anyone,” her current attorneys said in a filing in September. “Her belief that U.S. nationals may vote in local elections, which was supported by advice from City of Whittier election officials, was simply mistaken.”
The state has said Smith falsely and deliberately claimed citizenship. Prosecutors pointed to the language on the voter application forms she filled out in 2020 and 2022, which explicitly said that if the applicant was not at least 18 years old and a U.S. citizen, “do not complete this form, as you are not eligible to vote.”
The counts Smith was indicted on “did not have anything to do with her belief in her ability to vote in certain elections; rather they concerned the straightforward question of whether or not Smith intentionally and falsely swore she was a United States citizen,” Kayla Doyle, an assistant attorney general, said in court filings last year.
One of Smith's attorneys, Neil Weare, co-founder of the Washington-based Right to Democracy Project, said by email last week that if the appeals court lets stand the indictment, Alaska will be “the only state to our knowledge with such a low bar for felony voter fraud.”
Bohrer reported from Juneau, Alaska.
Michael Pese and his wife, Tupe Smith, stand outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, ahead of the Alaska Court of Appeals hearing a challenge to the voter fraud case brought against her by the state. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Michael Pese, left, his wife, Tupe Smith, and their son Maximus pose for a photo outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, ahead of the Alaska Court of Appeals hearing a challenge to the voter fraud case brought against her by the state. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
FILE - Tupe Smith poses for a photo outside the school in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
