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Food Giants Spend Big To Defeat Mandatory GMO Labeling Bill

Environmental Working Group

Analysis shows that Coca-Cola ($5,040,000), PepsiCo ($3,230,000), Kraft ($1,180,000), Kellogg’s ($1,310,000), General Mills ($1,100,000), and Land O’Lakes ($720,000) disclosed the largest lobbying expenditures that mentioned GMO labeling.

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Kellogg To Eliminate Artificial Ingredients In Cereals And Snack Bars

Kellogg Company

The world's biggest breakfast cereal maker is the latest in a string of U.S. food companies to bow to growing pressure to remove synthetic ingredients from products due to health concerns.

Blue Bell Ice Cream Recall Highlights Listeria Risk

Blue Bell repeatedly found listeria in its Broken Arrow, Okla., facility beginning in 2013, including on floors, a drain and equipment that fills containers with ice cream.

In this April 10, 2015 file photo, Blue Bell ice cream rests on a grocery store shelf in Lawrence, Kansas. In the wake of a deadly listeria outbreak in ice cream, the Justice Department is warning food companies that they could face criminal and civil penalties if they poison their customers.

FDA Orders Sacramento Tofu And Sprout Manufacturer To Stop Selling Adulterated Food

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA investigators inspected Henh Wong Fresh Produce’s facility multiple times and found insect and rodent filth, unsanitary employee practices, and improperly cleaned equipment.

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Venezuelan Troops Occupy Nestle And Empresas Polar Food Warehouse Complex

The move follows months of accusations by President Nicolas Maduro that Polar, the country's largest private employer, is working to sabotage the economy.

Kraft Heinz Recalls Kraft Singles Over Choking

There have been 10 consumer complaints to date about the packaging, including three reports of consumers choking.

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Supersized Cargo Skipping Smaller U.S. Ports

Port operators from Newark, N.J., to Long Beach, Calif., are spending billions of dollars to dredge harbors, raise bridges and build larger terminals to accommodate megaships.

The last major container shipping line ended its Portland run in March, leaving the city without regular ocean-bound container service for the first time in four decades.

Chipotle Continues Search For Sustainable Pork

Pork is still missing from about 40 percent of Chipotle’s 1,878 restaurants, after the company suspended a supplier in January that it said didn’t meet the chain’s animal welfare standards.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Falter

Trade ministers, in a joint statement, said late Friday they had made “significant progress” and will return to their home countries to obtain high-level signoffs for a small number of final sticking points on the agreement.

Talks on the largest regional trade agreement ever appear to be deadlocked over protections for drug companies and access to agriculture markets on both sides of the Pacific.

European Commission Investigates FedEx/TNT Express Merger

The commission, the European Union's antitrust watchdog, said the two remaining international delivery companies, United Parcel Service Inc. and DHL Worldwide Express Inc., may not provide sufficient competition to the merged company.

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USDA Issues Health Alert As Salmonella Sickens 90 In Washington State

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The whole pigs used for pig roasts have been associated eight Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i- illness clusters throughout the state.

When preparing a pig for a pig roast, FSIS reminds consumers to keep the four steps of food safety steps in mind: clean, separate, cook, and chill.

China Names Suppliers Of Drug-Tainted Meat

WalMart and Tesco are among retailers named by China’s food safety watchdog as inadvertent suppliers of drug-tainted meat.

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