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Risk/Compliance

Minnesota Workers Worried About Trade Talk in Presidential Race

In Minnesota, where agriculture and other businesses generally have benefited from lower tariffs and the easing of trade rules, trade deals are important and talk of removing those deals in starting to worry workers across the state.

Harvesting truck unloading strawberries in a field with workers and machinery visible during agricultural harvest season

Emerging Technologies

IBM, Wal-Mart and Chinese University Collaborate to Track Food on Blockchain

Chinese food safety practices have raised concern about contamination in China and in countries where Chinese food products are imported, and the new project aims to trace the movement of meat, vegetables and other products.

Business professional using tablet with digital world map and global logistics network visualization in warehouse

Fuel Efficiency

Survey: $3.00 Price of Diesel Will Cause Fleets to Seek Fuel-Saving Technologies

American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)

Nearly all fleet managers also feel that new EPA heavy-duty emissions regulations starting in 2017 will lead to higher truck operating and truck purchase costs.

Fuel pump nozzles at gas station with green, blue, and black diesel pump handles

Walmart Invests $25 Million on Food Safety Research in China

Wal-Mart also announced three projects including one that brings U.S. and China academics together with local poultry producers Fujian Shengnong Food Co., New Hope Liuhe Co. and Guangzhou Jiangfeng Industry Co. to study safety in poultry supply chains.

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Fleet Management

Freight Volumes Continue to Slide

Cass Information Systems, Inc.

September data is once again signaling that overall shipment volumes (and pricing) continued to be weak in most modes, marking the nineteenth straight month of year-over-year decline.

Data within the Index includes all domestic freight modes and is derived from $25 billion in freight transactions processed by Cass annually on behalf of its client base of hundreds of large shippers.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Virginia Continues to Set New Container Volume Records

Port of Virginia

September was the eighth month in a row the port has experienced gains in container volumes, moving up 2 percent over last year's record-setting volumes in September.

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Customer with Listeria from Foody World Dies

Vancouver Coastal Health has warned customers not to consume any produce or ready-to-eat foods made in-house at the store, a grocery store specializing in Asian food.

Colorful microscopic view of rod-shaped bacteria with textured surfaces in purple, blue, green, and tan colors.

Does Online Grocery Shopping Lead to Higher Retail Prices?

Forrester Research, Inc.

Why not going to your grocery store could actually cost you more at checkout.

Delivery worker in yellow safety vest loading packages into vehicle trunk on city street

Before You Go to the Polls Next Month, Check Out the Food Policy Scorecard

The 2016 report card highlights a growing discrepancy between consumer demand and good food policy out of Washington.

Founded in 2012, Food Policy Action is the first national organization to publish an annual scorecard that grades lawmakers on Congressional food policy votes. An advisory council of food policy experts picks which votes and bills are relevant and should be scored.

Egypt Claims Their Strawberries Do Not Have Hepatitis A

Investigators believe the Tropical Smoothie Café chain was the only U.S. business to import these particular Hepatitis A-tainted frozen strawberries, an outbreak that has had 131 victims across eight states according to the latest reports from the CDC.

Clear plastic bag of fresh produce with grapes, pears, raspberries, and citrus fruits labeled 'Use By'

Waste Reduction

Brambles and The Global FoodBanking Network Partner to Alleviate World Hunger and Reduce Food Waste

CHEP USA, a Brambles company

The agreement comes as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the value of food lost or wasted annually around the globe amounts to roughly $680 billion in industrialized countries and $310 billion in developing countries.

Brambles has signed a three-year agreement with the international non-profit organization The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to provide supply chain knowledge, in-kind contributions, volunteers and donations to help finance GFN operations, in an effort to reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition and food waste globally.

Zombie Dispatch: Omnitracs Creates Video Game to Show Importance of Human Truck Drivers

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Driver Dan has to make his way across a 500-mile trek to deliver valuable medicine that will save mankind and ward of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Can you get life-saving medicine across the country in order to save the World from the Zombie Apocalypse?

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