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Whole Foods To Stop Using Food Made By Prison Inmates

The grocery chain announced the change after customers complained, saying that they were uncomfortable with the fact that products were being made with inmate labor.

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Class Action Suit Claims Nestle, Hershey’s and Mars Use Child Labor

The California class action lawsuit filed states that Hershey’s, Mars and Nestle regularly import cocoa beans from suppliers who use child labor, including trafficked and forced child labor, specifically from plantations in the Ivory Coast.

The suits state that such children are trafficked from countries neighboring the Ivory Coast, sold to plantation owners by brokers and smugglers, and forced to work under conditions of physical violence without pay. According to the World Cocoa Foundation, 47 percent of the total U.S. imports of cocoa beans come from the Ivory Coast.

Lineage Logistics To Increase High Pressure Processing Capacity At Two Facilities

HPP is a post-packaging, non-thermal pasteurization method of killing potentially harmful pathogens, such as Listeria, E. Coli, and Salmonella using isostatic pressures of up to 87,000 psi.

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Chipotle Restores Pork To Most Restaurants

Chipotle stopped serving Carnitas at more than a third of its restaurants earlier this year after it suspended one of its primary pork suppliers when routine auditing found inconsistencies between the supplier’s operations and Chipotle’s pork protocol.

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EPA Rules Farmworkers 18 And Under Can’t Handle Pesticides

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The EPA’s rules, adopted over two decades ago, formerly had no age restriction for workers handling pesticides on farms, forests, nurseries and greenhouses.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Planning For The Unexpected

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California Presses Forward On Cutting Carbon From Fuel

California Air Resources Board (CARB)

The action, coming two weeks after a defeat for Gov. Brown’s planned 50 percent cut in petroleum use by 2030, signaled his determination to press forward with an aggressive environmental agenda through the regulatory process rather than by legislation.

California air regulators on Friday approved a substantial cut to carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel fuels, a move that will force oil producers to reduce the amount of carbon generated by all transportation fuels in the state at least 10 percent by 2020.

Fuel Efficiency

Featured In Food Logistics: Aerodynamics Research Points To Better Fuel Efficiency

Vehicle technology research has confirmed that aerodynamic solutions can improve fuel efficiency and the transportation industry has introduced numerous aerodynamic devices.

Price Chopper is testing the active aerodynamic solution from Actasys Inc. in partnership with Logistics One.

Coca-Cola Co. To Sell 9 Production Facilities To Bottlers In Supply Chain Overhaul

Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Co. took another step toward building a stronger, more streamlined production system in its flagship market by announcing the formation of a new National Product Supply System (NPSS) in the U.S.

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Fuel Efficiency

California Mandates Aerodynamics: Research Points To Better Fuel Efficiency

Commercial fleets and vehicle manufacturers continue to test add-on devices and other solutions.

Driver Dennis Jones, left, and James Sorrels, director of transportation, appreciate the savings from aerodynamic features in the Kenworth T680.

U.S. Food Imports & Exports

Navigating the risks and rewards of the global food supply chain.

Loading grain for export from the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Pest Management

Florida Declare State Of Emergency Over Fruit Fly Invasion

The declaration allows Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam to expand state authority and tap into additional resources, including law enforcement, to control the largest outbreak on record and maintain an 85-square-mile quarantine in the Redland.

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