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Food Safety News
Food safety in 2017 will be dependent on our "complicated bureaucracies" that exist to get through transitions and times of change. Both USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are sure to be taking many "business as usual" actions in January.
Confucius taught the Ancient Chinese bureaucracies that rituals were important for times when politics and maintaining relationships were important. The lesson has not been lost on the modern era.
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Food Safety News
Warning letters recently made public by the Food and Drug Administration addressed food safety violations at seafood processing operations in Portugal and Peru, dirty equipment and insects at a cider production facility in Kansas and improper use of antibiotics by a dairy in Minnesota.
Recipients of FDA warning letters have 15 days to respond to the agency in writing.
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USA Today
President-elect Donald Trump, who made criticism of foreign trade deals a major theme of his presidential campaign, said he has nominated former Reagan administration official Robert Lighthizer to be his new U.S. trade representative.
Lighthizer "has extensive experience striking agreements that protect some of the most important sectors of our economy, and has repeatedly fought in the private sector to prevent bad deals from hurting Americans," Trump said in a statement.
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Blueberries are one of the hottest ingredients in all types of beverages. Part of the reason is health but part is also the across-the-board appeal of blueberries with consumers of all ages and with product developers who appreciate the multitude of blueberry products available year-round.
U. S. Highbush Blueberry Council
www.blueberrytech.org
@happyblueberry
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Beef
Ag folks, from some who serve on Trump's Ag Advisory Committee to the ranchers in the countryside, are getting impatient with the lack of an Agriculture Secretary nominee from President-Elect Donald Trump.
Personally, I'm OK with Trump and his team getting it right. Don't rush. After all, I've no quibble that cabinet positions like Defense, State, Treasury and Attorney General are primary.
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STAT
A voluntary ban that aims to safeguard essential antibiotics for humans by limiting their use in food animals should now be fully in effect.
Under the Food and Drug Administration policy, antibiotics that have been designated "medically important" — in other words, they're needed to treat people — cannot legally be given to healthy animals to speed their growth.
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The Packer
Editor's note: With the benefit of a decade of hindsight, The Packer is revisiting the September 2006 E. coli outbreak linked to spinach in a four-part series. Part one of the coverage reviewed the Food and Drug Administration's investigation and conclusions about its cause. Part two of the coverage looked at how the California leafy greens industry responded to the crisis. This week's coverage looks at how the 2006 spinach E. coli oubreak led to the industry's call for federal oversight.
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Organic Authority
Burger King, the fourth largest fast food chain in the U.S. (by dollar sales), has announced plans to remove antibiotics from its chicken supply in 2017, and in Canada in 2018.
Restaurant Brands International, which owns Burger King and smaller chain Tim Horton's, made the announcement late last year, citing (human) health concerns as its main motivation for the decision.
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Abasto
Overall retail sales in this $50 billion frozen foods category have been tepid at best over the past three years, with an increase of just 0.9% in 2015 after two years of declines, according to Nielsen. Gains in products such as ice, dessert toppings and pizza buoyed a category pulled down by negative sales of mainstays like vegetables and baked goods.
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Houston Chronicle
The world's largest food makers are trying to help you keep that New Year's resolution to eat healthier, and your success is tied to theirs.
In the latest sign that snack and convenience food manufacturers are working harder to offer better products, Nestle has named a former health care executive as CEO. Ulf Mark Schneider took the reins in what is expected to be a transformation of the chocolate company turned global food empire.
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Transport Topics
Uncertainty dominates the outlook for trucking and freight transportation in 2017. Although expectations are that the economy will continue to expand, and maybe even pick up steam, much of what happens in the next year will depend on how much of President-elect Trump's campaign rhetoric is translated into policy and the extent to which Congress will support cutting back on regulation and increasing spending on infrastructure.
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Progressive Grocer
Is it France? Denmark? Japan? Brazil? No, it's actually England! When researchers at Trinity College Dublin recently launched a database identifying more than 4,000 food-sharing and waste-reducing enterprises in 100 cities around the world, they found that London — with 198 such enterprises — had more than any other city. And many are small entrepreneurs, according to NPR.
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Progressive Grocer
It's a store within a store and housed in the latest store of Coop Italia, the country's largest grocery chain. The 10,800-square-foot shop holds some 6,000 products, which are all organized on interactive tables and shelves. When a customer moves to grab a specific product, relevant information such as nutritional value, presence of allergens and waste disposal instructions are displayed on sleek screens suspended above as "augmented labels."
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RetailWeek
Morrisons has fired the starting gun on the 2017 supermarket price war in the United Kingdom by slashing prices on hundreds of products.
The grocer has cut shelf prices of 800 popular items including potatoes, fish fingers, meatballs, avocados and kale.
The fresh wave of cuts under Morrisons' "Price Crunch" campaign means a total of 1,500 products are currently for sale at reduced prices across the supermarket giant's stores.
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Japan Today
Japan is considering expanding the scope of mandatory labeling of ingredients containing genetically modified crops from the current 33 food items, according to Consumer Affairs Agency sources.
The move is aimed at giving consumers a greater sense of security about the food they buy and eat amid growing imports of genetically modified crops and food products containing them.
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