This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Click here to advertise in this news brief.   Mobile version   RSS   Subscribe   Unsubscribe   Archive   Media Kit Apr. 25, 2012 Home   Public Policy   Member Services   Industry Resources    Events    News & Media   About Us     Opinion: Time to revisit food deserts The New York Times Some new studies have questioned whether food deserts are as pervasive a problem as the government and other researchers have long believed. The studies also challenge whether efforts to increase access to supermarkets in low-income areas will achieve the ultimate goal of these policies: reducing obesity and other diet-related diseases among the people who live there. More Share this article >     Senate panel delays farm bill action The Hill The Senate Agriculture Committee late Tuesday postponed a markup for a new farm bill set for Wednesday. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., head of the panel, made the announcement hours after saying she would plow forward. She said lawmakers had "a few outstanding issues" to work out. Related article: Action on farm bill postponed (POLITICO) More Share this article >     USDA addresses mad cow case U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA officials Tuesday confirmed the fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy — commonly known as mad cow disease — in a California dairy cow. USDA Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. John Clifford addresses the case. Related articles: EU says no impact on US beef imports because of mad cow case (Reuters) Top global importers of US beef, veal stay the course (Reuters) South Korean stores pull US beef (Food Manufacturing) Mad cow disease discovery a stroke of luck (The Huffington Post) More Share this article >     Obama: Climate action, global warming will be key issue The Hill President Barack Obama is vowing to make the case for action on global warming during the 2012 campaign. "I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way," Obama told "Rolling Stone" magazine in a newly published interview. More Share this article >     Romney marches toward GOP nomination The Wall Street Journal Mitt Romney claimed victory in the Republican presidential nominating contest Tuesday after decisively sweeping five East Coast primaries, saying his triumph marked "the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years." More Share this article >     Newt Gingrich to suspend campaign The Washington Post Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his presidential campaign within the next week and endorse former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a spokesman said. More Share this article >     Jason Altimire, Tim Holden fall in Pennsylvania primaries POLITICO Two conservative Democrats who voted against the president's health care plan went down in defeat Tuesday, falling victim to primary opponents who cast them as far out of step with their party. More Share this article >     Americans' cholesterol levels shrink as waistlines expand NPR A curious — and good — thing has happened on the road to "Obesity Nation": The share of the U.S. adult population with high cholesterol has dropped. More Share this article >     Mexico presses for US answer on TPP Reuters Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday gave an impassioned defense of free trade as Mexico waits for the United States and others to decide whether it will be allowed to join talks on a trade pact in the Asia-Pacific region. Related article: US pledges to work with Malaysia on TPP (Bernama) More Share this article >     FSIS to publish poultry slaughter inspection Q-and-A Office of the Federal Register In a document to be published Thursday in the "Federal Register," USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service offers a question-and-answer review of the dozens of comments it received on its proposal to modernize poultry slaughter inspection, along with FSIS' responses to industry concerns. More Share this article >     CFIA fails food giants on nutrition label clarity, accuracy The Windsor Star Some of the world's biggest food brands and leading organic labels have understated the amount of bad nutrients — such as fat, sugar and sodium — in their products or overstated the good ones. Kraft, Frito Lay, Unilever and Heinz are among the big names with a product that flunked Canadian Food Inspection Agency testing, conducted to see if nutrition claims on labels live up to their billing. More Share this article >     FMCSA tightens rules of practice Office of the Federal Register The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a final rule amending its regulations. Under the new guidelines, carriers no longer can avoid an admission of liability by paying civil penalties for infractions, and new procedures will be enforced for issuing out-of-service orders for businesses FMCSA determines are reincarnations of other entities with a history of noncompliance. More Share this article >     Transport experts: Public must push Congress on highway bill Truckinginfo Congress can't do its job on the highway bill, so the public is going to have to take the lead, says a group of infrastructure experts that includes five former Secretaries of Transportation. More Share this article >     From Concept to Consumer! Move your product from the shelf to the cart with graphics that sell! 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Remodeled Target stores to feature more fresh food Progressive Grocer Fresh food selections will be expanded at 90 Target stores across the United States, scheduled to be completed in late June. These stores will be the second of three cycles of remodels for Target this year. More Share this article >     85 percent say price must be right before they shop Progressive Grocer Price trumps sales and special deals, customer service and convenience as a factor in deciding where to shop for the majority of U.S. consumers, according to The NPD Group, whose Economy Tracker's mid-March survey found 85 percent of U.S. consumers say price will be an "extremely important/important" factor in deciding where to shop in the near future, 10 percent more than those who feel sales and special deals are important. More Share this article >     Wal-Mart lobbied to amend anti-bribery law The Washington Post Wal-Mart, the giant retailer now under fire over allegations of foreign bribery in Mexico, has participated in an aggressive and high-priced lobbying campaign to amend the long-standing U.S. anti-bribery law the company might have violated. More Share this article >     Grocery 'smart cart' suggests better food choices Discovery News A British collaborative called the Change Project that uses technology to nudge consumers into more responsible behavior has come up with a smart grocery cart attachment. More Share this article >     Burger King pledges to end use of caged pigs, hens Reuters Burger King, the third-biggest U.S. hamburger chain, has pledged to end the use of the cramped chicken and pig cages targeted by animal welfare activists. The chain committed Wednesday to serving 100 percent cage-free eggs in its U.S. restaurants by 2017 and to buy pork only from suppliers with documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding sows. More Share this article >     Pizza Hut adds cheeseburgers to crust in Middle East WCAU-TV Pizza Hut, which seems never to tire of cramming disparate foodstuffs into its pizza crusts, has launched the most over-the-top yet: a pizza surrounded by cheeseburgers and topped with beef, lettuce and tomatoes. More Share this article >     Colorado changes cantaloupe growing practices Food Safety News The few Colorado farmers who grow the same brand of cantaloupe implicated in last year's Listeria outbreak — the most deadly outbreak of foodborne illness in the U.S. in decades — are falling into line with growing and packing reforms that originated in California. More Share this article >     Intelleflex partners with DeltaTRAK on cold chain solutions RFID Ready Intelleflex announced a strategic solution partnership with DeltaTRAK Inc. By partnering with Intelleflex, DeltaTRAK will extend its family of cold chain solutions for the food, pharmaceutical and processing industries by offering the Intelleflex XC3 Technology-based tags and readers under the DeltaTRAK brand. More Share this article >     Leading the way with QR codes on seafood The News Journal Handy International of Salisbury, Md., is the nation's first food producer to include a code on seafood products to enable customers to trace their origin and freshness. More Share this article >     Landec acquires GreenLine Foods USAgNet Landec Corp., which develops and markets patented products for food, agricultural and biomedical applications, announced that its wholly owned food subsidiary Apio Inc. has acquired GreenLine Foods Inc. 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