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Chiquita Brands’ Fresh Express Inc. Recalls Bagged, Chopped Romaine

Chiquita Brands International | Fresh Express

The condiments’ ingredients are not included on the chopped romaine labels and therefore pose an allergen threat for people with food allergies or sensitivities to milk, eggs, wheat and fish.

The romaine from the Salinas, Calif., company primarily went to retail stores in Eastern and Southern states, according to the notice. Individual states are: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia.

Mars Inc. To Remove Artificial Colors From Global Food Portfolio

Products across the range of the company's chocolate, gum, confection, food and drink businesses will be affected by the change, which will take place incrementally over the next five years.

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USDA Strengthens Food Safety Rules For Poultry

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

To make poultry items that Americans frequently purchase safer to eat, FSIS has also updated its microbial testing schedule at poultry facilities and will soon begin posting more information online about individual companies food safety performance.

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BJ’s Wholesale Club Recalls Deli Meat Over Pistachio Allergy Risk

BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc.

The recalled deli meats were sold at BJ’s locations in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., is voluntarily issuing a recall of Cittero Mortadella and deli meats sold from Jan. 20 through Feb. 3 because of a possible pistachio allergen risk.

XPO Logistics Sues YRC Worldwide for Poaching Workers, Stealing Customers and Pricing Data

The lawsuit pits two of the largest trucking companies in the U.S. against each other over the trade secrets

The complaint grew out of XPO’s takeover last October of Con-way Inc. and its Con-way Freight unit that is the second largest in the country offering less-than-truckload service, in which shipments from multiple customers are combined on trucks. YRC Freight is No. 3 in that market.

Obama To Seek $10 Per Barrel Crude Oil Tax

The proposed fee, which would be paid by oil companies and phased in over five years, was quickly met with scorn by lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Congress.

Set to be officially announced in Obama's fiscal 2017 budget plan on Tuesday, the fee would provide nearly $20 billion a year to help expand transit systems across the country and more than $2 billion a year to support the research and development of self-driving vehicles and other low-carbon technologies.

Southern California Container Terminal Closes Over Driver Costs

Since shifting its business model to use company employees as drivers 16 months ago, Hub Group Inc. Chief Executive David Yeager wrote, Hub’s costs “have been unsustainable and substantially higher than our outsourced core carriers’ costs.”

Hub Group Trucking has closed its Southern California terminal serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach just over a year after converting its local fleet from independently-contracted drivers to full-time employees.

Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Made A Difference

The resurrection of Hostess Brands Inc., producer of one of America’s favorite snacks, represents the logistics promise to today’s food industry.

Food Industry Presses Congress On GMO Labeling Before Vermont Law Takes Effect

The food industry wants Congress to pre-empt Vermont's law and bar mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods before it goes into effect.

The food industry wants Congress to pre-empt Vermont's law and bar mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods before it goes into effect.

12 Nations Sign Trans-Pacific Partnership, Await U.S. And Japan

The TPP will now undergo a two-year ratification period in which at least six countries - that account for 85 percent of the combined gross domestic production of the 12 TPP nations - must approve the final text for the deal to be implemented.

From small freight brokers like Portland, Ore.-based Geo. S. Bush & Co. Inc. to global logistics giants like United Parcel Service Inc., supply chain providers are gearing up for a surge in business they believe the historic agreement will bring to Pacific trade.

BRF In $50 Million Takeover Of Universal Meats

China Seeks To Strengthen Its Food Security With $43 Billion Syngenta Takeover Bid

The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a shake-up in global agrochemicals and marks a setback for U.S. firm Monsanto, which failed to buy Syngenta last year.

China, the world's largest agricultural market, is looking for ways to secure food supply for its population. Syngenta's portfolio of top-tier chemicals, fertilizers and patent-protected seed varieties will represent a major upgrade of its potential output.

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