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Food Retailers Tap Suppliers For Sustainable Sourcing

Retailers participating in the Twitter forum included Kroger, Walmart, Publix and Festival Foods and the discussion ranged from why sustainable sourcing is crucial to how best to collaborate with suppliers on efforts.

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WERC DC Measures Study Finds Shift to Customer-Focused Metrics

Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)

On-time shipments remains the most popular metric among members of the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)

IARW/WFLO Expo: Food Safety Experts Present Top Concerns About FSMA

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

Both speakers focused much of their attention on the sanitary transportation of food (STF) proposed rule, which is scheduled to be published in final form in March 2016.

Bud Rodowick of Thermo King, left, and Patrick Brecht of P.E.B. Commodities, Inc. point out problems with the FSMA sanitary transport rule.

Spot Truck Load Rates Weaken As Capacity Increases

DAT Freight & Analytics

The national average rate for reefers stayed at $2.12 per mile, with both the average line-haul rate and the fuel surcharge unchanged.

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Food Industry Urges Congress To Add $109.5 M In Funding For FSMA

Costco Wholesale Corp., Walmart, GMA and the Produce Marketing Association joined 16 others to back FDA’s request for an additional $109.5 million in funding in the Fiscal Year 2016 Agriculture/FDA Appropriations legislation.

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Iowa Becomes Third State To Declare State Of Emergency Over Bird Flu

Minnesota and Wisconsin declared states of emergency in April.

Chart shows the number of bird's with bird flu since March.

Foodcareplus Launches Reefer Consolidation Service From Canada To Europe For Seafood

The new integrated reefer consolidation service from Halifax will allow the seafood community to ship deep-frozen product from Canada straight into the heart of Europe via its frozen cargo facility in the port of Antwerp.

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Featured In Food Logistics: FDA Addresses FSMA Compliance For Small Companies

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The FDA, in networking with industry, has recognized the need to reach out to companies of all sizes to help them comply with the law.

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Cold Chain Blocking India’s Destiny To Be A Processing Powerhouse

India’s food minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal believes the country would be a global food processing powerhouse were it not for its troubled supply chain

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Food Companies Scramble to Cut Palm Oil From Supply Chains

The roster of food companies that want to eliminate palm oil from their products is getting longer, but palm oil sourcing will provide perhaps the biggest test of companies’ ability to trace and eliminate contentious materials from their products.

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Bigger Vessels Stress Infrastructure Of U.S. Ports, Slowing Trade

The big ships “have stressed the infrastructure to the breaking point,” says Jock O’Connell, an international trade adviser at Beacon Economics LLC in Sacramento, Calif.

The Colombo Express, operated by Hapaq-Lloyd, is one of the largest ships in the world.

IARW/WLFO Panel: Voluntary Safety Certification Takes Commitment, Yields Benefits

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

Attendees at this week’s International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) – World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO) convention and expo in Orlando, Fla. got a chance to hear from three cold chain service providers who have implemented safety s

At left, Tony Leo of RLS Logistics, Billy Adams of Americold and Ken Johnson of MTC Logistics answer questions about safety certification.

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