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Women in Supply Chain Award 2025: Nominations Open

This award recognizes female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Deadline for submissions extended to Friday, May 30.

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Warehouse Automation: How Much Automation is Too Much?

When implemented in the right way – and in the right place – warehouse automation can be just right.

In response to rising fuel costs, more ports are adopting propane to power critical equipment like port terminal tractors and forklifts.

State of Ports & Ocean Carriers

How a new administration combined with nearshoring, inflation, worker strikes and more impact the future of U.S. carriers.

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The Role of Pest Management in Food Processing

By understanding the common pests and associated risks, implementing preventative strategies and bringing in pest experts when needed, food processing professionals can safeguard public health and ensure their facilities remain pest free.

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Prioritizing Sanitization in Cold Food Processing

Maintaining a delicate balancing act requires robust standard operating procedures, comprehensive training programs, a dedicated staff, and a culture of prioritizing food safety.

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Maintaining Safe Cleaning and Disinfection Program on a Tight Budget

Balancing cost-effectiveness with effective cleaning and disinfection practices can seem like an insurmountable task, but with careful planning and strategic implementation, it’s a challenge that can be overcome.

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Integrated Pest Management in the Cold Chain Environment

An integrated pest management program is a sustainable, comprehensive approach to pest control that prioritizes prevention techniques over chemical treatments.

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Safeguard Your Facility Against Stinging Pests

Here's why an integrated pest management program is highly effective in protecting your facility and your employees from stinging pests.

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How FDA’s Food Traceability Rule Benefits Supply Chains

By January 2026, these growers, shippers, logistics providers and retailers will need to be tracking these products better than they are today and will need to have the receipts should the FDA come knocking.

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4 Strategies Foodservice Hospitality Can Use for 2023

The foodservice and hospitality industry, for example, is itching to return to a consistent cadence across businesses, while recognizing new solutions are required to meet new demands, environments and opportunities.

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Pest Management at the Loading Dock Leads to Big Benefits

Taking proactive measures now can prevent rodent infiltration before it's too late. At the loading dock, these preparations can increase audit scores and lead to benefits across businesses.

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Stop Pests From Putting a Kink in Your Supply Chain

Supply chains and food warehouses are properties where insects look to for shelter during the winter months. Here are some ways to prevent them from entering a facility.

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Pest Management Tips for Colder Weather

With staff training, diligent maintenance, cleaning practices and the help of a pest management provider, you can help keep your facility pest-free during the winter months and every season after.

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FoodLogiQ, ESHA Merger to Advance Food Safety

The combination of FoodLogiQ and ESHA will offer the food industry an unmatched ability to extend product development and nutritional analysis into supplier compliance, enhanced traceability and automated recall management.

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The Road Ahead for Refrigerated Transport is Paved with HFOs

For many businesses, choosing the right refrigerant and system makes a great impact across the board—from energy savings to the bottom line, as well as their ability to expand their customer base.

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L.I.N.K. | 67% of Frontline Workers Feel They Aren’t Heard

Listen to the latest podcast episode, where an executive from SafetyCulture gives us insight into the world's new focus on safety today in the supply chain.

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4 Ways to Identify a Sanitation Partner That Will Keep Your DC Audit-Ready

Outsourcing sanitation services will help control costs and reduce burden on internal staff. Here are four ways to identify a capable sanitation partner.

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How to Find Savings in “Protected” Spend Categories in Pest Control Programs

Pest control expenses need to be reviewed regularly to ensure you are getting what you signed up for.

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5 Ways to Prepare Your Facility for Winter Pests

Here’s what you need to know about winter pest activity and how to prepare the facility now for smooth operations.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Discuss the COVID-19 Delta Variant

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna discuss the Delta Variant's impact on shortages, bottlenecks and the future of today's supply chains.

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Out With the Masks, In With the Seasonal Cold

After almost a year and a half stuck inside and having to wear a face mask whenever we went into public, our bodies just aren’t used to germs anymore.

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The Timeline of COVID-19 in the Supply Chain

COVID-19's impact on the supply chain will be something for the history books. Take a look at this interactive timeline, detailing important events throughout the past year.

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Flexible Packaging for Food Gets Cleaner with Clean Room

A new clean room from LPS Industries sets a high standard for cleanliness in flexible packaging.

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Predictions for the Food Supply Chain Post-Coronavirus

As COVID-19 vaccinations become more widely available, the food supply chain braces for its future.

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Grocers Invested $24B in Payroll, PPE and Technology Amid COVID-19

A lot of the investments went toward increases in payroll, incentive pay and benefits as well as personal protective equipment (PPE) and other safety expenses, technology and more.

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Health Mitigation Measures in the Warehouse

Planning, preparing and implementing health crisis mitigation measures in the workplace will ensure everyone that their health and well-being are priority, while ensuring that the facility is better prepared for the future.

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No, You Cannot Transmit COVID-19 Through Food Packaging

There is no evidence that COVID-19 can be transmitted through food or food packaging, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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How to Protect Supply Chain Employees from Contracting COVID-19 this Winter

There are measures to implement today to ensure companies are taking all possible precautions to keep essential workers safe for tomorrow.

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Top 10 Pest Vulnerable Zones of Food Distribution Centers and Warehouses

Here is a list of some of the 10 most common areas of pest activity by product type, structural design and practices.

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Leafy Green Traceability Pilots Reveal the Value of Sharing Extended Product Information During a Traceback Investigation

The three pilots, conducted July through October, showed that investigations into foodborne illness outbreaks could be streamlined and conducted more effectively when supply chain partners provided extended product information during tracebacks.

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Chemistry Matters: What’s in Your Cleaning Solution?

Striking a balance between safe and effective seems complex, but by drawing on basic chemical knowledge, the decision of what to use, how much and when is simplified.

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Key Components of Rodent Prevention

Here are the crucial elements in preventing rodent intrusion and exclusion, the common areas for rodent entry and some of the tools and techniques used to keep these pests out.

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How Tubular Drag Cable Conveyors Mitigate the Risk of Dust Explosions in Food Processing

Discover the different types of conveyor systems used to transport dry ingredients for food processing and their relationship to factor influencing dust explosions.