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Amazon's Grocery Delivery Moves into Dallas

In the Dallas region, Amazon is working with area retailers through its Local Market program, which allows customers to shop from speciality stores like Local Yocal, V+V Apothicaire, Scardello Cheese and others.

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East Coast Warehouse Receives Safe Quality Food Certification from FDA

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution

This designation puts East Coast Warehouse at the forefront of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) mandate and raises its status as a best in class, organically rated, temperature-controlled, food grade logistics services provider.

New certification raises the Company's status as a best in class logistics services provider.

USDA Announces $7.6 Million in Grants to Create Jobs and Grow Economic Opportunity in Rural America

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The grants will support communities in at least 24 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with several projects spanning communities in multiple states.

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Minnesota Workers Worried About Trade Talk in Presidential Race

In Minnesota, where agriculture and other businesses generally have benefited from lower tariffs and the easing of trade rules, trade deals are important and talk of removing those deals in starting to worry workers across the state.

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Emerging Technologies

IBM, Wal-Mart and Chinese University Collaborate to Track Food on Blockchain

Chinese food safety practices have raised concern about contamination in China and in countries where Chinese food products are imported, and the new project aims to trace the movement of meat, vegetables and other products.

Blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency bitcoin, enables data sharing across a network of individual computers. It has gained popularity worldwide due to its usefulness in recording and keeping track of assets across practically all industries.

Survey: $3.00 Price of Diesel Will Cause Fleets to Seek Fuel-Saving Technologies

Nearly all fleet managers also feel that new EPA heavy-duty emissions regulations starting in 2017 will lead to higher truck operating and truck purchase costs.

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Walmart Invests $25 Million on Food Safety Research in China

Wal-Mart also announced three projects including one that brings U.S. and China academics together with local poultry producers Fujian Shengnong Food Co., New Hope Liuhe Co. and Guangzhou Jiangfeng Industry Co. to study safety in poultry supply chains.

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Freight Volumes Continue to Slide

September data is once again signaling that overall shipment volumes (and pricing) continued to be weak in most modes, marking the nineteenth straight month of year-over-year decline.

Data within the Index includes all domestic freight modes and is derived from $25 billion in freight transactions processed by Cass annually on behalf of its client base of hundreds of large shippers.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Virginia Continues to Set New Container Volume Records

Port of Virginia

September was the eighth month in a row the port has experienced gains in container volumes, moving up 2 percent over last year's record-setting volumes in September.

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Customer with Listeria from Foody World Dies

Vancouver Coastal Health has warned customers not to consume any produce or ready-to-eat foods made in-house at the store, a grocery store specializing in Asian food.

'Potentially contaminated items include all ready-to-eat meat products such as BBQ pork and marinated meats, sushi, produce and baked goods purchased since July 2016. If you have any produce, ready-to-eat or raw food items from Foody World, please dispose of them immediately,” according to the warning from Vancouver Coastal Health officials Friday.

Does Online Grocery Shopping Lead to Higher Retail Prices?

Forrester Research, Inc.

Why not going to your grocery store could actually cost you more at checkout.

Walmart will start with tests of grocery delivery through Uber in Phoenix, Ariz., and Lyft in Denver, Colo., which it expects to start within the next two weeks. This is in addition to a Sam’s Club pilot that started in March with Deliv involving delivery of general merchandise and grocery for business members in Miami, Fla.

Before You Go to the Polls Next Month, Check Out the Food Policy Scorecard

The 2016 report card highlights a growing discrepancy between consumer demand and good food policy out of Washington.

Founded in 2012, Food Policy Action is the first national organization to publish an annual scorecard that grades lawmakers on Congressional food policy votes. An advisory council of food policy experts picks which votes and bills are relevant and should be scored.

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