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3 Most Important Components of a Successful Food Recall Strategy

Grocery brands should consider investing in technology to automate the recall management process as part of their overall commitment to providing an exceptional shopping experience.

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How E-Signatures Helped USDA Digitize Processes in Record Time

Maersk Becomes Latest to Experience Cargo Loss From Heavy Seas

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Tightening the Screws on Cargo Security? Be Just as Vigilant About Cybersecurity.

L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Discuss President Joe Biden's Inauguration

3 Ways a Digital Food Safety System Can Drive Operational Efficiencies

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How to Protect Supply Chain Employees from Contracting COVID-19 this Winter

There are measures to implement today to ensure companies are taking all possible precautions to keep essential workers safe for tomorrow.

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Exoskeletons are Here to Stay for Food Logistics Operations

Exosuits and exoskeletons have moved beyond science fiction and into reality, helping facilities combat worker fatigue, strain and other risks that lead to musculoskeletal disorders.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Give Their 2021 Predictions

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna reunite for the first episode of L.I.N.K. Live in 2021 and give their new year predictions.

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How Today’s Food and Beverage Landscape Presents Urgent Problem for Blockchain to Solve

For now, we need to tackle the hard work of establishing standards that enable blockchain for the food and beverage industry.

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Mitigating Cargo Theft in the Cold Chain

Food Logistics sits down with Scott Cornell, transportation lead and crime and theft specialist for Travelers, to discuss the current landscape of cargo theft in the cold chain.

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The Best of Link Live 2020

2020 brought Link Live, a new Facebook Live video series where Food Logistics' editors have a roundtable discussion on all things happening in the industry. Here are some of our favorites.

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Bridging the Data Gap in Driver Training

Fleets may have all the latest technology on their trucks and many modern systems to assist with safety, but when it comes to driver training, very few have changed their processes in the past decades.

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Top 10 Most Read Food Logistics Articles of 2020

Food Logistics has been covering each aspect of the cold food supply chain during this unprecedented year, allowing readers to have a range of topics to read up on.

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Top 10 Pest Vulnerable Zones of Food Distribution Centers and Warehouses

Here is a list of some of the 10 most common areas of pest activity by product type, structural design and practices.

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IFDA Stresses Importance of Vaccine for Foodservice Distribution Workers

IFDA says that distributors are critical to keeping America’s hospitals running and provide an essential service and believes that these workers should have priority for the COVID-19 vaccine.

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American Bakers Association Unveils Frontline Workforce Landscape

ABA’s recent Baking Industry Frontline Workforce Landscape study found that at least one in every four frontline leaders were promoted from within the company.

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Report Highlights Need for Continued Driver and Technician Training

Among the findings is that the number of crashes involving large trucks, particularly Class 7 and 8 vehicles, continued to climb.

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FSNS Merges with Cierto Y Seguro S.A. De C.V. Laboratory in Mexico

This laboratory offers traditional microbiology methods, rapid molecular microbiology methods, microbiology sampling, and physiochemistry, as well as temperature- and humidity-controlled shelf life studies.

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BSI Assessment Details Global Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns to Supply Chains

Cargo thefts increased, and the goods targeted shifted to match the newly high-demand products like PPE and medical devices and supplies.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Recap 2020, Featuring Our Dogs

Food Logistics editors put 2020 to bed by recapping the year during this week's #LINKLIVE.

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Global Food Safety Testing Market Estimated to Reach $30.4B by 2027

Growing concern regarding the outbreak of foodborne diseases has led to stringent food safety regulations by various food authorizes, which is further expected to drive the food safety testing market growth.

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L.I.N.K. | Safe Catch Modernizes Mercury Testing

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel interviews the chief operating officer of Safe Catch on modern ways of testing for mercury in seafood and what the future holds for this type of technology.

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Why the U.S. Food System is Neither Efficient nor Effective

Ultimately, the food system needs to be both efficient and effective. Getting there will take creativity, collaboration and resolve.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Diversity and Inclusion with Women in Trucking and CarriersEdge

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna discuss Women in Trucking and CarriersEdge's new Diversity & Inclusion Index, as well as diversity and inclusion overall in the trucking and transportation industry.

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Kearney Study Details New Global Trends

Food insecurity will proliferate as the virus disrupts food supply chains.

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IBM Works With Port of Los Angeles to Help Secure Maritime Supply Chain

The CRC will be a maritime Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) to automate threat collaboration and extend its reach beyond traditional maritime stakeholders to Port stakeholders that are more broadly involved in cargo flow.

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Leafy Green Traceability Pilots Reveal the Value of Sharing Extended Product Information During a Traceback Investigation

The three pilots, conducted July through October, showed that investigations into foodborne illness outbreaks could be streamlined and conducted more effectively when supply chain partners provided extended product information during tracebacks.

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Leveraging Technology to Establish Resiliency in Food Manufacturing

Safety and efficiency are by far the two most important factors in helping food manufacturers weather the storm that COVID-19 has created and its resulting economic impacts.

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ASCM and AC Business Media Partner to Expand Educational Opportunities for Supply Chain Professionals

This partnership will provide Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics audiences the ability to purchase ASCM’s renowned product offerings at a discount.

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Research Shows Antibiotic Use in Pig Sector Declines

New data from AHDB shows that antibiotic usage in pigs dropped from 6 mg/PCU between January and June this year.

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L.I.N.K. | Tork Exec Highlights Hygiene in the Workplace

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with Jim Lang, Manufacturing Excellence Director at Essity North America, owner of Tork, to talk about hygiene in the supply chain during COVID-19.

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New Regulations and Discerning Consumers Increase Challenges to Food Manufacturers

One of the primary drivers behind the industry’s sea change is the increasing demand by consumers for validation that their food is actually what it purports to be.

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Rite-Hite Develops Zoneworks EZ Employee Separation Barriers

EZ Employee Separation Barriers are durable free-standing workstation partitions.

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Food Logistics Launches Future of Supply Chains Week of Webcasts

Register today for one, two or all track sessions covering Transportation, Cannabis, Supply Chain Visibility, Warehousing and Procurement.

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Rodents and Your Supply Chain During the Pandemic

Here are some best practices for an effective pest management sanitation routine.