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Ecuador Latest To Impose Nationwide Ban On U.S. Poultry

The Ecuadorian agricultural authority Agrocalidad has banned all imports of live foul, poultry meat and poultry products, as well as genetic material, including chicks and hatching eggs, from the U.S., in response to the recent avian influenza outbreaks.

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Featured In Food Logistics: FDA Addresses FSMA Compliance For Small Companies

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The FDA, in networking with industry, has recognized the need to reach out to companies of all sizes to help them comply with the law.

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Farmers: Food safety Rules Could Put Them Out of Business

Connecticut's dwindling number of commercial vegetable and fruit farmers say it could cost them tens of thousands of dollars to comply with the complex regulations the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to issue this year.

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Featured In Food Logistics: The Role Of ERP Technology In Meeting Food Safety Rules

Modern food industry specific business management solutions coupled with mobile electronic data capture technologies provide the ideal solution for a comprehensive food safety quality assurance solution.

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Featured In Food Logistics: FDA Publishes Four Supplemental Proposed Rules To FSMA Law

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA’s rule on produce safety is intended to establish science-based standards for growing, harvesting, packing, and holding produce on certain domestic and foreign farms.

The FSMA rule on produce safety has scientific standards for holding produce on domestic and foreign farms.

Featured In Food Logistics: F&B Industry Supports FSMA Goals, But Seeks Some Changes

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The law also gives the FDA new tools to hold imported foods to the same standards as domestic foods and directs the FDA to build an integrated national food safety system in partnership with state and local authorities.

Industry stakeholders believe the FDA must define a 'shipper' more clearly and reconsider the scope of the shipper's responsibility in meeting food safety standards.

Blue Bell Ice Cream Struggles To Find Bacteria Source

The decision to pull all of its products from stores after a listeria outbreak marks one of the most sweeping U.S. food recalls by a single brand and highlights the difficulty of controlling the potentially deadly bacteria.

The decision was the result of findings from an enhanced sampling program initiated by Blue Bell which revealed that Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream half gallons produced on March 17, 2015, and March 27, 2015, contained the bacteria. This means Blue Bell has now had several positive tests for Listeria in different places and plants and as previously reported five patients were treated in Kansas and three in Texas after testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

Feds May Test Food Products For Glyphosate Herbicide

World Health Organization (WHO)

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, has come under intense scrutiny since a research unit of the World Health Organization reported last month it was classifying glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans."

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Flu Outbreak Kills More Than 1.2 Million Turkeys

The H5N2 strain of avian influenza has infected 23 Midwest turkey farms and brings the death toll to more than 1.2 million birds killed by the disease or by authorities scrambling to contain it.

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre , Minn. A deadly strain of bird flu has reached the Midwest, killing or requiring hundreds of thousands of turkeys to be euthanized.

USDA Expands Beef And Pork Trade With Mexico And Peru

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the announcements during a meeting with producers in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Millennials Seek Local Foods That Offer A Sense Of Place

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Software Solutions

Traceability Toolkit: Software, Automation, Data Standardization

How technology allows shippers to stay ahead of stricter safety rules

Onset's data logger measures and transmits temperature and humidity data wirelessly to mobile devices via Bluetooth Smart technology.

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