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Globalization Keeps Raising The Bar On Safety In Our Supply Chain

Food Logistics managing editor Elliot Maras.

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.

Aramark Fires Kansas City Food Safety Manager Who Publicized Stadium Safety Problems

Costa came forward publicly with his concerns last November, just after World Series games at Kauffman Stadium, in an email to media and public health officials, including the local health department.

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European Bank For Reconstruction And Development Expands Food Security Initiative

Launched in 2011, the initiative champions the role of the private sector in boosting food production through technical assistance, policy dialogue and new financing.

Featured In Food Logistics: Recalls Demand Preparing For The Unexpected

Inmar Intelligence

Every consumer-goods company should plan for these contingencies, particularly in the food industry, where the potential impact to consumer safety and brand equity has far-reaching implications.

In the U.S. alone, foodborne illness causes an estimated 48 million illnesses and 3,000 deaths each year.

Farmer Sues Perdue for Violation of FSMA Whistleblower Protection Law

This is the first case and filing of its kind in the U.S., where a contract farmer and whistleblower files a lawsuit of this nature against a large poultry producer.

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Drone Technology Aids Banana Disease Detection In The Philippines

Dutch-based group Triple20 is exploring drones to offer growers a technologically advanced method of detecting disease, and is now involved in several agro-tech developments in the country’s banana industry.

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Obama Seeks 14% Tax On Foreign Profits For U.S. Infrastructure

The tax revenue would be used to fund bridges, roads and other projects in America’s aging infrastructure system and to provide revenue for America’s sagging Highway Trust Fund.

The measure closing the loophole from the Tariff Act of 1930 was included in a wider trade enforcement bill, which Obama signed into law at the White House in Washington.

FDA Seeks $4.9B For Food Protection, Including FSMA Implementation

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The overall request includes $147.7 million in budget authority for initiatives tied to several key areas, including the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and the management of critical medical products issues.

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Currency Fight Snags U.S.-Pacific Trade Agreement

Skeptics fear that any gains U.S. companies get from lower tariffs negotiated in trade agreements could be reduced if foreign countries weaken their currencies, making their products more competitive.

The measure closing the loophole from the Tariff Act of 1930 was included in a wider trade enforcement bill, which Obama signed into law at the White House in Washington.

Chipotle Pulls Pork From 600 Restaurants Over 'Responsibly Raised' Standard

The fast-growing restaurant chain announced on Tuesday that it had suspended a major pork supplier after a routine audit found that it had failed to meet the company’s standards for animal welfare.

China Bans U.S. Poultry And Egg Imports Over Avian Flu

The ban is in response to a December detection of a pathogenic strain of H5N8 influenza in wild birds and in a backyard flock of guinea hens and chickens in Oregon, along with separate H5N2 HPAI detections in wild birds in California and Washington State.

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