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Pork Farmers Rap Subway’s Antibiotic Removal, Claiming It Will Jeopardize Food Safety

The National Pork Producers Council criticized Subway’s decision to eliminate antibiotics from protein and urged the fast food chain to reconsider this decision in a full-page advertisement in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Subway To Serve Only Antibiotic-Free Chicken

Beginning in March 2016, Subway customers across the U.S. will able to order meals made with chicken raised without antibiotics.

Subway Restaurants is beginning to transition to serving only protein from animals that have never received antibiotics across all of its 27,000-plus U.S. restaurants in early 2016.

Florida Fast Food Restaurants Add Alcohol

Restaurants such as Burger King, Starbucks, Taco Bell and Sonic are trying out the concept of adding alcohol to their menus.

Starbucks is also in on the act, with beer and wine at its growing “Starbucks Evenings” stores in Orlando, Seattle, and what is expected to be thousands of other locales.

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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Featured In Food Logistics: How New Consumer Demands Challenge The Foodservice Supply Chain

E-commerce, mobile commerce, and a host of new consumer preferences are placing more demands on the foodservice supply chain, and at a faster pace than ever.

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National Resources Defense Council Grades Restaurant Chains On Antibiotics: Most Fail Big Time

The report builds on rising concern that overuse of antibiotics in meat production contributes to the rise in antibiotic-resistant infections that claim at least 23,000 lives each year.

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Woman Sues Chipotle After Two Food Poisoning Hospitalizations

April Beck is among 45 or more Salmonella cases involving the restaurant chain that have been reported since Sept. 2 to the Minnesota Department of Health.

New York City To Require Chain Restaurants To Label High-Sodium Food

The rule requires restaurants to add a salt-shaker symbol next to food items that contain more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium, the maximum daily amount recommended by U.S. health officials. The rule will go into effect on Dec. 1.

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Woman Sues Chipotle Over GMO-Free Menu Claims

In April, Chipotle launched a multimedia campaign pronouncing its menu free of GMOs at U.S. locations.

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Montana Public Health Agency Posts Restaurants' Safety Results Online

Those establishments range from coffee kiosks to large restaurants, explained Marilyn Tapia, RiverStone Health’s director of environmental health services and a licensed sanitarian.

Montana's ’s public health agency RiverStone Health is launching an online service that explains the results of food safety inspections at each of the county’s 952 licensed food service outlets.

Chipotle Continues Search For Sustainable Pork

Pork is still missing from about 40 percent of Chipotle’s 1,878 restaurants, after the company suspended a supplier in January that it said didn’t meet the chain’s animal welfare standards.

Wendy’s Tests Antibiotic-Free Chicken

Wendy’s officials decided to test the antibiotic-free chicken at a handful of locations in response to its customers’ rising interest in ingredients and how food is produced.

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