Yogurt is hot, and energy drink sales have been booming, so it seemed like a good bet by General Mills to try to bridge the categories with the launch of the Yoplait Vivant line, which featured fruit flavors along with tea and B vitamins.
The quest to tease useful information from a mountain of evidence, including what one lawmaker called the equivalent of hundreds of hours of video, bore its first fruit with the images of the suspicious person near the marathon's finish line.
"The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.