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Software & Technology

Whole Foods Market To Pay $500,000 For Misweighing And Mislabeling

After overcharging customers for prepackaged food, Whole Foods Market agreed to pay $500,000 Monday and new standards to ensure more accurate labels.

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FDA Extends Comment Period For ‘Natural’ Labels

The Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period for a docket to receive information and comments on the use of the term “natural” in the labeling of human food products.

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Bellisio Foods Inc. Recalls Boston Market Frozen Dinners

Bellisio Foods, Inc., a Jackson, Ohio establishment, is recalling approximately 285,264 pounds of boneless pork rib shaped patty frozen entree products that may be adulterated with extraneous materials.

Featured In Food Logistics: Six Steps Toward Optimizing Wine & Spirits Operations

Warehousing and distribution for the wine and spirits industries requires tight operational tolerances to ensure safe and accurate handling, efficient inventory management, traceability and other compliance issues.

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Nestle Commits To Cage-Free Eggs In Next Five Years

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, announced that it will transition to using only cage-free eggs in all of its U.S. food products within the next five years.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Target Corp. Scrutinizes Its Food Supply Chain

Target Corp., the nation’s second largest retailer, has openly acknowledged many of these challenges and has engaged in some thought-provoking, if uncertain, food initiatives.

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Federal Spending Bill Includes Funding Increase For FSMA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will receive a total of $2.72 billion in discretionary funding in the bill. Within this total, food safety activities are increased by $104.5 million.

The president’s budget request for fiscal year 2016 asked for a $109.5-million increase for FDA. The House’s spending bill is much closer to matching that request than the $41.5-million and $45-million increases allocated for FDA’s food safety activities by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, respectively.

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Acquires FreshKO Produce Services Inc. In California

The business will continue to operate under the respected FreshKO brand as a wholly-owned subsidiary of C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the Keene, N.H.-based wholesale grocer, has acquired FreshKO Produce Services, Inc., based in Fresno, Calif.

Independent Truckers Sue To Halt ELD Mandate

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“This rule has the potential to have the single largest, most negative impact on the industry than anything else done by FMCSA,” said Jim Johnston, OOIDA president and CEO.

OOIDA previously challenged a similar mandate in the courts. In August 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit vacated a proposed electronic logbook rule based on the argument of harassment of drivers.

U.S. Meat Labeling Spat Creates Confusion For Shippers And Producers

The U.S. took a step towards defusing the row on Wednesday when the U.S. Congress approved a spending bill that includes the repeal of federal laws mandating meatpackers identify where animals are raised and slaughtered.

The North American spat pitting Canada and Mexico against the U.S. over meat labels has sown confusion among producers and shippers in all three countries, with a trade war potentially just weeks away, according to Reuters.

Rail & Intermodal

Canadian Pacific Revises Offer For Norfolk Southern Corp.

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Canadian Pacific has added contingent value rights (CVR) to the offer, which increase the overall value of the offer and also protect the value to NS shareholders going forward.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., the second-biggest railroad in Canada, is exploring a takeover of U.S. carrier Norfolk Southern Corp. in a fresh attempt to consolidate the North American industry.

U.S. Lawyers Seek To Put Slave Labor Warnings On Food Labels

A victory for consumer lawyers may force companies into a corner: Give shoppers a moral dilemma every time they go to the supermarket, or pay suppliers a lot more to eliminate any temptation to use slave labor.

Under California's supply chain transparency law, the first of its kind, companies with more than $100 million in revenue must publicly disclose their efforts to fight slave labor. It doesn't require them to have a policy – but if they do, they have to say what it is.

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