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Carbon Footprint

Crown Equipment Facility Earns Recognition from Ohio EPA

Crown Equipment Corporation

This marks the third time Crown has earned E3 program gold-level recognition for the company’s sustainability efforts within its manufacturing and assembly plants.

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California Wildfires Could Impact Wine Country for Years

The wine business can be brutally difficult, but what has been happening since Sunday night in California’s famed wine country is unprecedented.

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Fast-Food Chains Still Using Antibiotics in Meat

If you prefer your fast food without a side of antibiotics, consider heading to Chipotle or Panera. Those two restaurants came out at the top of a new report that looks at the use of antibiotic-free meat in the food industry.

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USDA Plan to Move International Food Safety Work to Trade Office Raises Alarm

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Critics say the move signals the United States is more interested in promoting exports than in science-based public health standards.

Usda

Amazon Sells $1.6 Million in Whole Foods' Brands in First Month

Amazon has sold about $1.6 million in Whole Foods' store-brand products in the first month since taking over the organic chain.

Software & Technology

Up Next in Food Safety: A Temperature Sensor You Can Eat

The biodegradable temperature sensor sticks to food all the way from its starting point to the inside of your mouth, cutting out the need to manually test food to keep it at a certain temperature.

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World’s Largest Food, Retail Companies Agree to Standard Food Expiration Dates

Consumer Goods Forum

Fifty of the world’s biggest food and retail companies are changing their expiration labels exclusively to "Use by" by 2020.

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Hurricane Irma Squeezes Life from the Orange Juice Industry

The most recent estimates of the widespread damage to Florida's orange trees put the statewide losses as high as 70 percent.

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Global Outcry Stalls China’s Food Import Controls

World Trade Organization (WTO)

China has delayed enforcing sweeping new controls on food imports that would require each shipment to have an inspection certificate from a foreign government.

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Puerto Rico’s Agriculture Decimated by Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico—making it one of the costliest storms to hit the island’s agriculture industry.

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Meth-laced 7Up Reportedly Causes Death in Mexico

Experts are warning travelers in the area to pay extra attention to whether the seals on their food and drinks are intact.

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Risk/Compliance

Cargill CEO Says NAFTA Dissolution Could Cost them $11 Billion

MacLennan said that the dissolution of NAFTA—sans replacement—would result in a 10 percent cut to company revenue.

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