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Rail & Intermodal

Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Senate Hearing On Canadian Pacific Railway/Norfolk Southern Merger

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)

Manchin, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said the proposed merger "is an attempt by a Wall Street titan to purchase and dismantle an American rail company that has provided jobs for hundreds of West Virginians.”

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is calling for a Senate hearing on a proposed merger between Canadian Pacific Railway and Norfolk Southern, which he has dubbed a 'Wall Street takeover' of a prominent U.S. freight company.

Vermont AG Office Announces Authorized Companies To Verify GMO-Free Claims

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin responded to the letter yesterday on his Facebook page: The Grocery Manufacturers Association sent me a letter yesterday urging me to abandon Vermont's GMO labeling law. Here's my response: Here's an idea for the industry: Just label your products. All of them, nationwide. 64 countries already do it. I'm sure the food industry in America could summon the moral imagination to be the 65th. The industry's real concern is that as goes Vermont so will go America. Plain and simple Vermont's law is about giving consumers the right to know what is in their food. For too long consumers in America have been denied that right. Vermont is saying enough is enough. Give us the right to know.

U.K. Regulator Orders Tesco To Improve Supplier Invoice Transparency

The U.K. Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said the investigation covering the period June 25, 2013 to Feb. 5 2015 found that the retailer “seriously breached a legally-binding Groceries Supply Code of Practice to protect groceries suppliers.”

U.K. Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon made five recommendations in the report, which include stopping Tesco from making unilateral deductions from money owed for goods supplied. Suppliers will be given 30 days to challenge any proposed deduction and if challenged Tesco will not be entitled to make the deduction. The GCA also insists that the company corrects pricing errors within seven days of notification by a supplier.

FMCSA To Post Recorded ELD/HOS Webinars

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

The webinars are designed to give industry participants an overview of the rule and implementation plan, and explain how the first phase of its implementation will impact enforcement.

Why Amazon’s Move Into Hauling Doesn’t Concern Some Carriers

On Tuesday, two of the largest U.S. trucking companies brushed off the potential threat from the e-commerce giant saying there was plenty of freight to go around.

Why Listeria Continues To Plague The Produce Industry

The food industry has controls in place to combat Listeriosis, along with other pathogens; yet outbreaks continue to occur, and we must ask the difficult question… why?

A look at the disease transmission factors associated with Listeria monocytogenes point out some unique and difficult problems that can confound our controls.

Risk/Compliance

Rico Acquires Majority Holding In Circle Express

Circle Express has a countrywide fleet of 300 vehicles operating out of eight aviation security listed depots near the airports at Heathrow, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and a cross dock facility in Milton Park, Abingdon.

Circle Express is one of the largest independent networks offering a collection and delivery service specifically targeted at the U.K. air freight forwarding industry and is the preferred U.K. freight distribution carrier for many international freight forwarders.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

U.S. Expands Permissible Exports to Cuba

The rule changes will allow more U.S. exports related to disaster preparedness, food processing, public transportation and more

The changes, which go into effect Jan. 27, will permit more U.S. exports related to disaster preparedness, education, agricultural production, food processing, public transportation and art.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Expanded Panama Canal Likely To Open In June

Panama Canal Authority (PCA)

Panama Canal Authority Administrator Jorge L. Quijano told the AJOT at an American Association of Port Authorities conference in Tampa "early May or late May, we should be functional, and maybe June for the inauguration."

This is an artist's impression of the Panama Canal Expansion on completion.

Virginia Supermarkets Still Await Deliveries Following Snowstorm

Shelves normally stocked with milk, eggs and bread were empty on Monday at Safeway and Target stores in Rosslyn, Va.

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Cheese Maker Roos Foods Inc. Pleads Guilty To Shipping Adulterated Food

The FDA suspended Roos Foods, Inc.’s facility registration on March 11, 2014, which barred the company from introducing food into interstate commerce, for sanitation problems and L. mono contamination in multiple places in the facility.

Cheese produced by Roos Foods, Inc. was linked to an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) that sickened eight people in 2013. Seven people were hospitalized.

Maine Bill Would Require Food Companies To Label GMOs

The bill, LD 991, would require foods distributed in Maine to include a label if genetically modified organisms were used to produce the final product. Exempt from the requirement are restaurants, medical food and alcoholic beverages.

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