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International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses Advises EPA On Proposal Risk Management Program’s Impact On Small Firms

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

The EPA is proposing changes to Risk Management Program in the following areas: Root Cause Analysis, Independent Third Party, Audits, Inherently Safer Technology Assessments, and Emergency Response Enhancements.

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Senate Committee Supports Measure To Prevent Mandatory GMO Labeling

Fourteen of 20 members of the committee, including three Democrats, voted in favor of the markup of the bill by Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas.

Fourteen of 20 members of the committee, including three Democrats, voted in favor of the markup of the bill by Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas.

Anheuser-Busch InBev To Sell Chinese Beer Business For $1.6 Billion

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Shares in China Resources Beer soared as much as 30 percent after the Hong Kong-listed brewer announced on March 2 that it was buying the 49 percent of CR Snow it did not already own.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Electronic Freight Security (EFS) – What To Expect

FreightWatch International

The January/February issue of Food Logistics offers a primer for the setup and implementation of an electronic freight security (EFS) program, provided by FreightWatch International, the logistics security division of Sensitech Inc.

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Ocean Container Trade Faces Historic Overcapacity

AlixPartners LLP

The most-recent forecasts expect global container fleet capacity to grow by 4.6 percent in 2016, and another 4.7 percent in 2017, though spot prices for major routes have dropped 21 to 44 percent from a year ago because of plunging demand.

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Food Industry Opposes Arizona Bill Eliminating Food Safety Licensing

Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is the driving force behind the push to eliminate licensing for a diverse group including food packers, landscape architects, engineers, geologists, driving school instructors and yoga teachers.

Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is the driving force behind the push to eliminate licensing for a diverse group including food packers, landscape architects, engineers, geologists, driving school instructors and yoga teachers. The proposed legislation has a dozen sponsors and co-sponsors in the Arizona House and Senate — 11 of them are Republicans.

Amazon Strikes Distribution Pact With Morrisons Supermarket In The U.K.

Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.

Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.

United Natural Foods Inc. Acquires Haddon House Food Products Inc.

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)

Haddon is a distributor and merchandiser of natural and organic and gourmet ethnic products throughout the Eastern U.S.

United Natural Foods, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding stock of Haddon House Food Products, Inc. and certain affiliated entities as well as certain real estate, in a cash transaction for approximately $217.5 million.

European Food Retailers Expand Into Non-Food To Improve E-Commerce

To have a chance of turning a profit in grocery e-commerce, retailers need scale and they are more likely to recoup delivery costs if they can get shoppers to add higher margin non-food items to their shopping cart.

As Amazon encroaches on supermarket territory, traditional European retailers are taking bigger steps to fight the U.S. e-commerce giant by offering more non-food products and using extensive store networks as delivery hubs.

Obama Signs Law Banning Imports Made With Forced Labor

Shipments derived from slavery, from fish to electronics and cocoa, will be kept out of the country under the new law that closes a legal loophole that allowed import of goods derived from forced labor if U.S. demand exceeded domestic production.

The measure closing the loophole from the Tariff Act of 1930 was included in a wider trade enforcement bill, which Obama signed into law at the White House in Washington.

New York Company Recalls Chicken Over Listeria

The products subject to recall bear establishment number “P-4400” inside the USDA mark of inspection and were shipped to distributor locations in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

The chicken salad items were produced on various dates between Feb. 2 to 18, 2016, and were shipped to distributor locations in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

FDA To Increase Foreign Food Facility Inspections, Finalize FSMA Rules

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified several steps it plans to take over the next year or two to further implement provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

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