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Panera Bread Removes Artificial Flavors, Colors and Ingredients from Kids Menu

Not only is Panera banning a long list of artificial additives from its kids menu, the company provides kids a broader selection of wholesome meal choices based on its adult menu, versus the usual nuggets and fries fare.

The Panera Kids menu – featuring an array of soups, salads, pasta and sandwiches – will be free of all artificial flavors, preservatives, sweeteners and colors from artificial sources identified on the company’s No No List starting September 7.

Amazon Prime Video Makes Japanese Delicacies '1-Click' Purchase

Amazon hopes this combination of online streaming and shopping can differentiate the new service from traditional shopping channels.

Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo will create video content featuring local specialties from across Japan to be shown on Amazon Prime Video. While watching, shoppers can buy the products featured just by tapping the '1-Click' icon.

Sonoco ThermoSafe Offers Courses to Train and Certify Cold Chain Packaging Professionals

ISCLabs marks another milestone with launch of the industry’s first temperature assurance packaging (TAP) certification program.

The certification program was developed by Sonoco ThermoSafe’s ISCLabs in partnership with The Packaging School.

Feds Investigate Flowers Foods Over Misclassifying Drivers as Contractors

The company intends to cooperate with the department, and because the review process is confidential, the company has no further comment at this time.

The company is currently being sued by a number of truck drivers alleging they were wrongly classified as independent contractors, causing them to miss overtime pay and other employee benefits.

United Natural Foods Acquires Gourmet Guru

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)

Founded in 1996, Gourmet Guru is a distributor and merchandiser of fresh and organic food focusing on new and emerging brands.

Texas Company Recalls 60,350 Pounds of Ground Beef Over Contaminant

Sam Kane Beef Processors is recalling approximately 60,350 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with foreign materials, specifically metal.

The products subject to recall bear establishment number “EST. 337” inside the USDA mark of inspection or on the product packaging seam. These items were shipped to three HEB Grocery distribution centers in Texas.

Software Solutions

BlueGrace Logistics Receives $255 M Investment, Will Add 700 Positions

BlueGrace Logistics LLC

BlueGrace intends to use the funding to fuel the rapid growth of the business, including hiring 500 to 700 new employees, accelerating its national expansion plans and pursuing strategic acquisitions.

Founded in 2009, BlueGrace has developed a proprietary software platform that provides customers who need to ship goods with multiple offers from trucking companies.

Cargill Ditches Antibiotics in Feeding Turkeys

Cargill has not used the drug, gentamicin, to prevent disease in turkeys that supply its two biggest brands, Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms, since August 1, the company said.

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.

Wendy’s to Remove Chickens Raised with Antibiotics

Wendy's, which purchases more than 250 million pounds of chicken annually, also said it would commit to specific goals for the reduction of antibiotics important to humans in pork and beef production in 2017.

Wendy's and its chicken suppliers have been working to eliminate all antibiotics important to human medicine from chicken production, the company told Reuters on Thursday. As of June 2016, half of Wendy's chicken supply was raised without medically important antibiotics. Wendy's said it would be at 100 percent by next year.

U.S. Senator Calls for New Federal Food Safety Agency

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal held a news conference in Hartford, Conn., Monday "calling for the creation of a single agency, an aggressive, pro-active single agency that can inspect, enforce and protect in a way that right now is not done.”

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal says the Food and Drug administration isn’t doing its job. A recent government report says the current FDA food recall process takes too long.

GMO Labeling Law Presses Small Manufacturers

Small and medium-sized manufacturers may not have financial cushions like bigger businesses to absorb the cost of such changes, which can run into the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

A new law that requires food makers to label the packaging of any products that contain genetically modified ingredients has small and medium-sized manufacturers facing some big decisions.

E-Commerce Puts Kroger Into Competition with Partner Procter & Gamble

The expansion of private-label brands could be a threat to consumer-product companies that fail to generate excitement for their brands with innovation and advertising.

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