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APHIS Stopping Blueberries From Chile, Looking For Moths

European grape moths, vine moths and grape berry moths are invasive species and a threat to 27 different types of plants, including grapes, berries, cherries, currants, lilacs, nectarines and plums.

Lineage Logistics To Open LEED-Certified Cold Storage Facility In California

The new facility will feature 132,000 square feet of frozen storage space, 65,000 square feet dedicated to onsite food processing, and eight blast cells with the capacity to blast freeze up to 1 million pounds per day.

Walmart's SuperCube Fleet Gets The Green Light In Canada

With the Canadian government's approval to take the pilot project to the next phase, Walmart is hoping to roll out reefer Supercubes in the future.

Cold Chain Firms In India Looking For Investors, Offering IPO

Gati Ltd. is looking for a strategic partner or investor for its cold chain business, while Karnimata Cold Storage is planning to go public on BSE SME platform.

Newest Food Tech: Burger Flipping Robots, Burrito Vending Machines

New "Alpha Machine" will take order, chop up toppings and cook more than 300 burgers per hour, while the "Burrito Box" Kiosk is lining up customers at L.A. gas station.

Software & Technology

Report Predicts Global Food Traceability Market To Boom

Allied Market Research

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to grow at the highest rate of 19.4 percent among all technologies in the food traceability market.

FDA Launches Advisory Committee Membership Nomination Online Portal

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The interactive system will enable nominees to submit their application for membership on an advisory committee from the FDA’s website, creating a paperless, streamlined process to accept, evaluate and nominate qualified individuals in a timely fashion.

Penn State Launches e-Newsletter Focused On Northwest Food Supply Chain

Research team led by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences offers a quarterly electronic newsletter to provide updates on their $5 million, USDA-funded project called Enhancing Food Security in the Northeast through Regional Food Systems.

Project Aims To Make Bio-Packaging From Fish Waste

Sierra Resins launches a joint venture to turn fish industry waste into bio-based, bio-degradable plastics for food manufacturing and packaging.

Cummins Puts 15-Liter Natural Gas Engines On Idle

Engine maker has decided to stop the development of it's 15-liter natural-gas engine due to "market timing uncertainty."

What Exactly Is Sustainable Beef?

McDonald's Corp.

McDonald's made headlines recently with it's lofty goal of "verified sustainable beef" by 2016, prompting many inside the industry to ask if beef can actually be sustainable.

Need For More Food May Force Kenya To Re-Examine GMO Ban

From 2009 to 2012, Kenya’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) allowed humanitarian agencies to import GM products as food aid during the drought season.

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