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Cheese Maker Roos Foods Inc. Pleads Guilty To Shipping Adulterated Food

The FDA suspended Roos Foods, Inc.’s facility registration on March 11, 2014, which barred the company from introducing food into interstate commerce, for sanitation problems and L. mono contamination in multiple places in the facility.

Cheese produced by Roos Foods, Inc. was linked to an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) that sickened eight people in 2013. Seven people were hospitalized.

Maine Bill Would Require Food Companies To Label GMOs

The bill, LD 991, would require foods distributed in Maine to include a label if genetically modified organisms were used to produce the final product. Exempt from the requirement are restaurants, medical food and alcoholic beverages.

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Food Industry Faces Daunting Logistics Challenge Committing To Cage-Free Chickens

That process could take anywhere from 15 to 20 years plus the amount of time it takes to build the new system, which will add a few million dollars.

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Record Storm Snags Services And Deliveries

Freight movers in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast said the effects of the storm would be mitigated by the fact that the worst snow is expected over the weekend, when many operations are already scaled down.

Transportation operators across the densely packed mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions scaled down operations to brace for the storm. Several airlines canceled passenger flights out of Washington, D.C., and New York airports and the Amtrak passenger rail network said it had “canceled or truncated” services on lines stretching from New Orleans to Chicago and New York.

Listeria Outbreak Linked To Dole Salads Claims One Death, 12 Hospitalizations

Dole Food Company

Officials from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced they have been investigating the six-state outbreak since September 2015.

Dole Food Co. issued a voluntary market withdrawal of packaged salads from 23 states and three Canadian provinces a few hours after the CDC announcement.

FMCSA: 34-Hour Restart Contingent On Suspending HOS Rules

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

Reimplementation of the rules, suspended by Congress in late 2014, is contingent on the recently completed study's review by the DOT, the Office of the Inspector General and Congress itself.

Teamsters Oppose Canadian Pacific/Norfolk Southern Merger

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)

The Teamsters Rail Conference stated its opposition to the forced takeover attempt in a letter from Rail Conference President Dennis R. Pierce to the Surface Transportation Board (STB) dated January 18, 2016.

The Teamsters Rail Conference represents more than 70,000 active railroad workers whose constituent unions are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED).

Global Cold Chain To Grow 13.9% Through 2020

The global cold chain market is mainly driven by increasing need of efficient storage system for perishable goods to avoid wastage of food products.

Cold chains facilitate farmers to store perishable agriculture produce such as vegetables and fruits and increase its shelf life.

Grower Recalls Macadamia Nuts Over Salmonella

Mahina Mele distributed the products to retail stores in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maryland and Virginia from Oct. 21 to Nov. 25, 2015.

Mahina Mele Farms LLC, is recalling seven products after FDA testing found Salmonella in macadamia nuts.

Amazon Bids To Become The Biggest Global 3PL

It's part of a strategy to make Amazon the largest third-party logistics (3PL) provider worldwide, from the U.S. to Africa, Latin America, India, and even China where the company has gained ground as it tries to compete with Alibaba and Tmall.

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Spot Truckload Rates Tumble In Week Ending Jan. 16

DAT Freight & Analytics

Diesel prices plummeted 7 cents to $2.11 per gallon, the lowest national average price since March 2009, and caused surcharges to be adjusted downward.

The U.S. average retail pump price for gasoline also declined this week by 3.4 cents to $1.822 per gallon, which is 24.6 cents cheaper compared to the same week in 2015.

Uber Prepares Food Delivery App In 10 Cities

In the coming weeks customers in such cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Austin, Texas, will be able to use a new UberEats app to order from the full menus of dozens of local restaurants and have their food delivered by an Uber driver.

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