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Food Safety Best Practices In Food Transportation And The Role Of ERP Technology

FSMA will require those who transport food to use sanitary transportation best practices to ensure the safety of the food.

Carl Iversen

Risk/Compliance

FDA Publishes Four Supplemental Proposed Rules To FSMA Law

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Agency seeks to make the original proposals more flexible, practical, and targeted.

The FSMA rule on produce safety has scientific standards for holding produce on domestic and foreign farms.

Risk/Compliance

F&B Industry Supports Food Safety Improvement, But Calls For Changes To FSMA

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Industry stakeholders weigh in on several aspects of proposed law.

Industry stakeholders think the FSMA sanitary transport rule errs in applying quality standards to safety practices.

Sysco Corp. Disputes FTC Injunction Against US Foods Merger

Sysco filed the memorandum yesterday in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Columbia in opposition to the FTC's motion for preliminary injunction. A hearing on the FTC's motion is scheduled to begin May 5.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Cargo Ferry Transport Replaces Truck Transport

The result of more than two years of work, the concept has been developed as an alternative transport solution for containers that are carried for more than 200 km on land.

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APL, Mitsui OSK Lines And NYK To Begin Asia-South America Service

The new service will use eight 6,000 TEU containerships and will feature a particularly short lead time between Hong Kong and Manzanillo, Mexico — only 17 days, the fastest on the market.

Image of the Pusan Newport International Terminal, starting point for the new AMC (Asia Mexico Colombia Express) Service that will begin May 22.

Japan’s Kagome Corp. To Enter U.S. By Acquiring Preferred Brands International

The acquisition sees Kagome enter the U.S. consumer foods area and the company flagged the fast growth of ethnic food sales in the market, which generated sales of $3.4 billion in 2013.

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Swisslog Acquires FORTE Industries, Boosting Its Strategy In North America

Swisslog Americas

FORTE’s expertise in conveyor systems, case and piece picking, and sortation solutions, particularly in the e-commerce and multichannel retail segment, will strengthen Swisslog’s offering in North America.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

U.S. Customs Targets Mislabeled Food Imports

This operation is part of a continued effort to interrupt what CBP calls “an extensive network of purposely mislabeled and high-risk agriculture products coming from Hong Kong, China, India and Saudi Arabia.”

Boxes of frozen fillets of catfish of the genus Pangasius -- called basa, swai or sutchi -- that were imported into the United States from Vietnam falsely labeled as sole to avoid anti-dumping duties.

Coca-Cola To Buy Chinese Beverage Company

Coca-Cola Company

Headquartered in Xiamen, Fujian Province, Xiamen Culiangwang's top-selling products include green bean, red bean and walnut flavors of plant-based protein drinks sold under the brand China Green Culiangwang.

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Rivals Resist Sysco/US Foods Merger

The Federal Trade Commission has asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to temporarily stop the $3.5 billion Sysco/US Foods deal, with a hearing scheduled for May 5 on that preliminary injunction.

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Freight Capacity For Vans And Flatbeds Loosens In Early April

DAT Freight & Analytics

Reefer load-to-truck dropped by 20 percent while spot reefer rates remained flat.

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