Red Star Yeast Company, LLC is a joint-venture of

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, and

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. Red Star operates two plants in the United States—a plant in

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, and a new plant built in 2006 in

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. Lesaffre Yeast Corporation (prior to the joint-venture) used to operate plants in

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, but those facilities have been closed since 2006. Their corporate office is located in

. Red Star Yeast and Products was the former division of Sensient Technologies (formerly Universal Foods), which distributed the Red Star brand. Red Star Yeast was then sold to French-based Lesaffre group in 2001. In 2004, Lesaffre and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) created the joint-venture that the company operates under today. All Red Star Yeast products are certified

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