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Nestle To Remove Artificial Flavors From Pizza And Food Snacks

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Food Companies Slow To Address Water Shortage

Withdrawals of freshwater supplies have risen by at least 1 percent a year in the past three decades, and could rise by a staggering 55 percent in the next few decades, the United Nations water agency estimates.

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Emerging Technologies

New Platform For Supply Chain Transparency: Bitcoin Blockchain?

As a shared, secure record of exchange, block chains can track what went into a product and who handled it along the way, breaking supply chain data out of silos, and revealing the provenance of a product to everyone involved from originator to end user.

FMI Launches Grocery/Supplier Collaboration Project

FMI - The Food Industry Association

The goal of the FMI Collaboration 2.0 project is to help grocers and suppliers bring more customer-focused decision-making into categories and stores around shared business processes including supply chain execution and inventory optimization.

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Refrigerated Transportation Market To Grow 12+% Annually Through 2019

Research and Markets

End-users need product-specific refrigerated vehicles that can prevent food contamination by avoiding cross-product transportation.

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Produce Industry Journalist Floats Industry User Fee For FSMA

Produce Marketing Association

Having a user fee imposed on the industry to help implement food safety regulations and educate the grower community could make sure that the funds are applied carefully and to maximum effect, according to Tom Karst, national editor for The Packer.

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Bird Flu Crimps Nation’s Egg Supply

Egg prices are rising, and shortages have occurred in some markets, particularly for liquefied or processed eggs.

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Amazon Expands Prime Time Service In Manhattan; Battles Walmart On Price

Amazon said customers can order groceries, prepared meals and baked goods from D'Agostino, Gourmet Garage and Billy's Bakery through its Prime Now app.

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Lawmakers Push Food Safety Bills After 'Frontline' Investigation

The “Meat and Poultry Recall Notification Act,” from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), would strengthen authority of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to recall contaminated meat and poultry.

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Amazon Expands Into Private Label Food

Amazon has approached some private-label food manufacturers seeking a partner in preparation to broadly expand its fledgling lineup of private-label brands to include an array of grocery items such as milk, cereal, and baby food.

Judge Grills Both Sysco And FTC Over Sysco/US Foods Merger

After more than three hours of questioning by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, the outcome of the case appeared unclear.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said there was “plenty of evidence” in the case that showed restaurants and other buyers of food-distribution services use a mix of providers besides Sysco and US Foods.

E-Commerce Solutions

HighJump Acquires E-Commerce Provider Nexternal

HighJump Software

Nexternal's omnichannel commerce platform serves manufacturers, distributors and retailers and includes an order management system that captures both business-to-business and business-to-consumer orders, via standard and mobile web browsers.

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