Food Logistics' "The Week Ahead in 60 Seconds"

A weekly audio blog by editor-in-chief, Lara Sowinski, on what’s hot in the food supply chain industry. New audio blogs will be released every Monday morning.

June 27, 2012

Editor-in-Chief Lara L. Sowinski

Editor-in-Chief Lara L. Sowinski

L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Fashion and Reverse Logistics

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna sit down and discuss the fashion supply chain and how reverse logistics plays a role.

L.I.N.K. | Sourced Craft Cocktails CEO Flips Business Model Amidst Lockdown

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel asks Sourced Craft Cocktails CEO about what it was like to switch the company's business model in the middle of quarantine and the technology provider that made it happen.

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Exoskeletons are Here to Stay for Food Logistics Operations

Exosuits and exoskeletons have moved beyond science fiction and into reality, helping facilities combat worker fatigue, strain and other risks that lead to musculoskeletal disorders.

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How Today’s Food and Beverage Landscape Presents Urgent Problem for Blockchain to Solve

For now, we need to tackle the hard work of establishing standards that enable blockchain for the food and beverage industry.

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Register Today for SCN Summit’s Webcast on Food and Pharma Safety

These sessions come on the heels of SCN Summit’s Future of Supply Chains Week, which brought in over 3,300 registrants, 741 unique leads and a 53% attendance rate.

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Mitigating Cargo Theft in the Cold Chain

Food Logistics sits down with Scott Cornell, transportation lead and crime and theft specialist for Travelers, to discuss the current landscape of cargo theft in the cold chain.

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The Best of Link Live 2020

2020 brought Link Live, a new Facebook Live video series where Food Logistics' editors have a roundtable discussion on all things happening in the industry. Here are some of our favorites.

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Bridging the Data Gap in Driver Training

Fleets may have all the latest technology on their trucks and many modern systems to assist with safety, but when it comes to driver training, very few have changed their processes in the past decades.

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Top 10 Most Read Food Logistics Articles of 2020

Food Logistics has been covering each aspect of the cold food supply chain during this unprecedented year, allowing readers to have a range of topics to read up on.

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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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IFDA Stresses Importance of Vaccine for Foodservice Distribution Workers

IFDA says that distributors are critical to keeping America’s hospitals running and provide an essential service and believes that these workers should have priority for the COVID-19 vaccine.

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American Bakers Association Unveils Frontline Workforce Landscape

ABA’s recent Baking Industry Frontline Workforce Landscape study found that at least one in every four frontline leaders were promoted from within the company.

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Report Highlights Need for Continued Driver and Technician Training

Among the findings is that the number of crashes involving large trucks, particularly Class 7 and 8 vehicles, continued to climb.

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FSNS Merges with Cierto Y Seguro S.A. De C.V. Laboratory in Mexico

This laboratory offers traditional microbiology methods, rapid molecular microbiology methods, microbiology sampling, and physiochemistry, as well as temperature- and humidity-controlled shelf life studies.

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BSI Assessment Details Global Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns to Supply Chains

Cargo thefts increased, and the goods targeted shifted to match the newly high-demand products like PPE and medical devices and supplies.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Recap 2020, Featuring Our Dogs

Food Logistics editors put 2020 to bed by recapping the year during this week's #LINKLIVE.

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Global Food Safety Testing Market Estimated to Reach $30.4B by 2027

Growing concern regarding the outbreak of foodborne diseases has led to stringent food safety regulations by various food authorizes, which is further expected to drive the food safety testing market growth.

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L.I.N.K. | Safe Catch Modernizes Mercury Testing

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel interviews the chief operating officer of Safe Catch on modern ways of testing for mercury in seafood and what the future holds for this type of technology.

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Why the U.S. Food System is Neither Efficient nor Effective

Ultimately, the food system needs to be both efficient and effective. Getting there will take creativity, collaboration and resolve.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Diversity and Inclusion with Women in Trucking and CarriersEdge

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna discuss Women in Trucking and CarriersEdge's new Diversity & Inclusion Index, as well as diversity and inclusion overall in the trucking and transportation industry.

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Kearney Study Details New Global Trends

Food insecurity will proliferate as the virus disrupts food supply chains.

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IBM Works With Port of Los Angeles to Help Secure Maritime Supply Chain

The CRC will be a maritime Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) to automate threat collaboration and extend its reach beyond traditional maritime stakeholders to Port stakeholders that are more broadly involved in cargo flow.

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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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Leveraging Technology to Establish Resiliency in Food Manufacturing

Safety and efficiency are by far the two most important factors in helping food manufacturers weather the storm that COVID-19 has created and its resulting economic impacts.

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ASCM and AC Business Media Partner to Expand Educational Opportunities for Supply Chain Professionals

This partnership will provide Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics audiences the ability to purchase ASCM’s renowned product offerings at a discount.

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Research Shows Antibiotic Use in Pig Sector Declines

New data from AHDB shows that antibiotic usage in pigs dropped from 6 mg/PCU between January and June this year.

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L.I.N.K. | Tork Exec Highlights Hygiene in the Workplace

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with Jim Lang, Manufacturing Excellence Director at Essity North America, owner of Tork, to talk about hygiene in the supply chain during COVID-19.