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FDA Says Drug Residues In Raw Milk Are Decreasing

Only 0.014 percent of all truckloads of raw milk tested positive for medicinal animal drug residues in fiscal year 2013.

FDA Says Lettuce, Spinach Can Be Irradiated

Using irradiation for phytosanitary treatment of fresh produce has increase markedly in the past few years, from about 10 million pounds in 2009 to close to 40 million pounds in 2013.

Averitt To Use 'Cold Box' To Expand Refrigerated LTL Trucking

Averitt Express

The trucking comopany is extending the “cold chain” for customers and expanding its refrigerated business by using specially designed containers to move pallet-sized temperature-controlled loads in dry van trailers.

Netlog Logistics To Construct Six Cold Chain Storage Facilities In Turkey

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is giving the logistics company in Turkey a loan of up to €25 million for new investments.

Yearsley Buys Land In Peterborough For Cold Storage Facility

Cold storage specialist The Yearsley Group has completed the purchase of a 20 acre plot at Roxhill’s 240-acre Gateway Peterborough site.

More Signs Point To An AmazonFresh Launch In New Jersey

The 1 million-square-foot Amazon.com warehouse under construction in Robbinsville is starting to fill its estimated 1,400 full-time jobs.

Obama Proposes Tax Changes To Pay For Highway Trust Fund

President Obama last week urged lawmakers to overhaul corporate and business taxes to pay for repairing and replacing the nation’s aging roads, rails, bridges and tunnels.

Rail & Intermodal

Canadian Rail Companies Caught in Dilemma ... Ship Food or Crude?

A record-high grain harvest in Canada is causing tension between the only two railway companies in the country and the grain shippers who use them.

China's Cofco To Partner With GLP On New Logistics Network

The network will be omprised from both existing GLP facilities and new build-to-suit facilities, including facilities for packaged foods, fresh foods and e-commerce.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Power On Shore In San Diego Port Improves Cold Chain

A new $4.25 million shore power system at the Unified Port of San Diego's Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal was dedicated last week.

Kuehne + Nagel Investing More In U.S. Perishables Market

Kuehne+Nagel Group

Growing the perishables business has been one of five key areas in KN’s drive launched four years ago to double turnover and the bottom line by the end of 2014.

Frozen Potatoes Becoming Key To Halifax Cold Chain

Port of Halifax in doesn't just ship raw product, now shipments from the Candian port iinclude frozen fries.

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