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Featured In Food Logistics: Recalls Demand Preparing For The Unexpected

Inmar Intelligence

Every consumer-goods company should plan for these contingencies, particularly in the food industry, where the potential impact to consumer safety and brand equity has far-reaching implications.

In the U.S. alone, foodborne illness causes an estimated 48 million illnesses and 3,000 deaths each year.

Walmart Unveils Sustainability Leaders Shop

The launch of the Sustainability Leaders shop builds on the company’s ambition to provide customers more information about the products they purchase at Walmart.

Farmers Turn To Robots As New Farm Hands

Harvest Automation created robots that help automate and mechanize labor in nurseries and greenhouses, navigate autonomously, and help farmers move goods and gather information within existing and some unstructured environments.

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E-Commerce Solutions

Global E-Commerce War Heats Up In Response To Chinese Trade Policies

Encouraged by tax-relief programs and other policies from last year, logistics firms including SF Express and state-owned Sinotrans are grabbing a piece of the cross-border e-commerce market which the government estimates to be worth $1 trillion by 2016.

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Brazilian Truckers Strike Crimps Food Deliveries

The protests are part of a reaction to the return of fuel taxes, one of several unpopular measures that President Dilma Rousseff is counting on to shore up government fiscal accounts.

Striking truckers block a federal highway in Goiania, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Weeklong protests by Brazilian truckers demanding lower fuel and toll prices have spread, causing shortages of gasoline and other products.

Featured In Food Logistics: Changing Distribution Strategies Challenge Fleet Managers

Food and beverage shippers are responding to a push from national to regional distribution, driven partly by the demand for locally-sourced products.

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Indonesia’s Blue Bird Group Combines Three Logistics Companies

Blue Bird is hoping to create a company that offers a full range of logistics services, including warehousing, to big-name clients such as convenience store chain 7-Eleven and consumer products giant P&G.

China Fruit Imports Jump 23% In 2014

Leading the imports were bananas, with imports increasing 119 percent to more than 1.1 million tons.

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USDA: Food Recalls On The Rise

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Most recalls for pathogenic bacteria were for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), at 1.84 million pounds, followed by Salmonella at 372K pounds and Listeria monocytogenes contamination totaled 270K pounds.

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Software & Technology

Overstock.com's Farmers Market Offers Home Delivery For Local Food

Farmers Market within the Overstock.com website offers customers throughout the U.S. access to home delivery of seasonal, healthy food, grown and produced in their area.

Overstock.com, an ecommerce company that delivers local fresh food through its Farmers Market business, has gained better insights into its operations and reduced task duplications by paying closer attention to data analytics.

Attorneys Question Recent GMO Labeling Law Effort

Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) announced the reintroduction of a federal bill that would mandate the labeling of foods or beverages containing GMOs.

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Data Security Tops Retailers’ Concerns

National Retail Federation (NRF)

Results from the Retail CIO Agenda 2015: Secure and Innovate Report show that managing data security is the most urgent focus area for retail CIOs, with 97 percent of surveyed business leaders placing it at top of their priority lists.

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