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Trucker Teams Help Carriers Meet Surging Online Orders

Retailers and parcel carriers have been turning this season more than ever to teams, in which drivers pair up to keep trucks rolling for hundreds of miles over 20 or more hours a day.

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Whole Foods Market To Pay $500,000 For Misweighing And Mislabeling

After overcharging customers for prepackaged food, Whole Foods Market agreed to pay $500,000 Monday and new standards to ensure more accurate labels.

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FDA Extends Comment Period For ‘Natural’ Labels

The Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period for a docket to receive information and comments on the use of the term “natural” in the labeling of human food products.

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Bellisio Foods Inc. Recalls Boston Market Frozen Dinners

Bellisio Foods, Inc., a Jackson, Ohio establishment, is recalling approximately 285,264 pounds of boneless pork rib shaped patty frozen entree products that may be adulterated with extraneous materials.

Featured In Food Logistics: Six Steps Toward Optimizing Wine & Spirits Operations

Warehousing and distribution for the wine and spirits industries requires tight operational tolerances to ensure safe and accurate handling, efficient inventory management, traceability and other compliance issues.

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Nestle Commits To Cage-Free Eggs In Next Five Years

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, announced that it will transition to using only cage-free eggs in all of its U.S. food products within the next five years.

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As Chipotle Scrambles With E.Coli, Wall Street Journal Slams Its Slamming Modern Agriculture

Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal chastises Chipotle Mexican Grill over its aggressive local sourcing strategy in light of its inability to determine the source of the E.Coli outbreak that has sickened customers in several states.

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Papa John’s To Remove Antibiotics From Chicken In 2016

Papa John’s announced that its grilled chicken pizza toppings and chicken poppers will consist of poultry that is raised without human and animal antibiotics, as well as fed a 100-percent vegetarian diet, by summer 2016.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Target Corp. Scrutinizes Its Food Supply Chain

Target Corp., the nation’s second largest retailer, has openly acknowledged many of these challenges and has engaged in some thought-provoking, if uncertain, food initiatives.

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Mars Recalls Candy With Dove Chocolate Snowflakes

A recall was issued on Friday for Dove-brand chocolate snowflakes that might be mixed in with Snickers, Milky Way or Twix pieces.

Mars Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Grupo Turin, the manufacturer of chocolates in Mexico since 1928 and owner of brands such as Conejos and Turin.

U.S. Meat Producers Laud Repeal Of Country Of Origin Labeling Rule

The North American Meat Institute has applauded the federal government for repealing the country of origin label (COOL) requirements for muscle cuts of beef and pork, and ground beef and pork products.

The North American spat pitting Canada and Mexico against the U.S. over meat labels has sown confusion among producers and shippers in all three countries, with a trade war potentially just weeks away, according to Reuters.

Federal Spending Bill Includes Funding Increase For FSMA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will receive a total of $2.72 billion in discretionary funding in the bill. Within this total, food safety activities are increased by $104.5 million.

The president’s budget request for fiscal year 2016 asked for a $109.5-million increase for FDA. The House’s spending bill is much closer to matching that request than the $41.5-million and $45-million increases allocated for FDA’s food safety activities by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, respectively.

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