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USDA Launches Database To Trace Foodborne Diseases

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The GenomeTrakr database leverages a laboratory process called whole-genome sequencing that identifies the complete DNA sequence of an organism’s genetic material at a single time.

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) inspects a shipment of imported frozen meat at the Port of New Orleans.

Supply Chain Disruptions; What McDonald's Supplier Closure Can Teach Us

InteSource Inc.

McDonald’s was recently forced to appoint a new CEO, and although there were many factors at play behind the decision to transition leadership, poor supply management certainly played a role.

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Feds Lift Restrictions On Commercial Drones

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

The Federal Aviation Administration's proposed rules still bar activities like delivering packages and inspecting pipelines.

Under the new rules, drone flights will be approved for agriculture, research and development, educational and academic use, and powerline, pipeline and antenna inspections. They will also be approved for aiding rescue operations, bridge inspections, aerial photography and wildlife nesting area evaluations.

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Supply Chain Consultant Warns Of West Coast Port Closure

According to ISM, the West Coast ports handle 43.5 percent of containerized cargo in the US, which accounts for 12.5 percent of US GDP.

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GrubHub Acquires Delivery Services DiningIn and Restaurants On The Run

The two companies GrubHub has acquired, DiningIn and Restaurants on the Run, will allow it to deliver from 3,000 restaurants across the US, with operations already up and running in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston.

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Students In Sweden Create Gluten-Free Banana Flour

A group of Master's students in Food Technology at Lund University in Sweden have come up with a creative product that is both healthy and reduces waste.

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Alibaba Drones Fly Over Beijing While Amazon Pleads for U.S. Tests

Asia’s largest Internet company is partnering with Shanghai YTO Express Logistics Co. to deliver ginger tea packets to 450 Chinese customers who volunteered for the one-time drone tests.

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Drone Technology Aids Banana Disease Detection In The Philippines

Dutch-based group Triple20 is exploring drones to offer growers a technologically advanced method of detecting disease, and is now involved in several agro-tech developments in the country’s banana industry.

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Amazon Posts Quarterly Profit; Stock Surges

Amazon still ended 2014 with its first annual loss in at least 12 years. Executives said the spending would continue, with plans to keep building data centers for the cloud-computing division and fulfillment centers for faster delivery of goods.

Industrial Robots: China To Surpass EU And North America By 2017

International Federation of Robotics (IFR)

China only has 30 industrial robots per 10,000 employees in manufacturing industries, where in North America robotic density is five times higher than in China, where the majority of industrial robots are used for handling operations and for welding.

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Five Ways Drones Will Affect How We Get Our Food

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

This month, the Federal Aviation Administration issued the first permit for agricultural use of unmanned aerial vehicles, allowing Idaho-based ADAVSO to use a lightweight, fixed-wing drone to survey fields of crops.

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Distribution Market Advantage Chooses iTradeNetwork As GDSN Master Data and Integration Services Partner

DMA will work with iTrade to receive GDSN data from suppliers of its multi-unit operator customers, including detailed item and supplier identification and description data, and synchronize this foundational master data with the DMA item catalog.

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