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Food Dive
The latest price index report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that consumer prices recorded their biggest increase in eight months in September. Unfortunately, the tide didn't lift all boats, with food prices remaining fundamentally flat. The food price index eked out a negligible 0.1 percent increase, led by inflation creeping back into the food-away-from-home (dining out) index, which rose 0.3 percent in September.
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AFFI
Total natural cheese stocks in refrigerated warehouses Sept. 30, 2017, were down 2 percent from the previous month but up 6 percent from Sept. 30, 2016.
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Politico
House Republican leaders are working behind the scenes to ensure their tax reform rollout, expected any day now, avoids the pitfalls that sank their doomed Obamacare repeal effort.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and the Republican whip team have been hosting policy "deep dives" to get the often divided conference on board.
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Food Safety News
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, for the moment, has backed off his controversial plan to transfer the U.S. Codex Office, which works on international food standards, from the U.S. Department of Agricutlure's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service to a new trade office in the department.
In a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, Perdue said there are two planned changes at USDA that "merit further discussion" because of issues raised by critics.
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Food Navigator-USA
Consumers increasingly view clean label as about more than avoiding "artificial" ingredients, according to a new survey from Kerry, which also reveals that some ingredients previously considered safe bets in clean label formulations, such as natural flavors and stevia, are now viewed with suspicion by some shoppers.
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Refrigerated & Frozen Foods
While online shopping in general is growing, it isn't the main shopping channel for the majority of food shopping occasions, according to the "Food Shopping in America 2017" report produced by The Hartman Group. That's because among the 71 percent of consumers who haven't placed an order online for grocery items in the past three months, almost half (48 percent) said the main reason was that they enjoy shopping in person more.
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Quartz
Mann Packing, one of the largest suppliers of fresh vegetables in North America, has issued a massive recall of its products in the U.S. and Canada.
The Salinas, California-based company issued an Oct. 19 voluntary recall of freshly cut vegetables — many of them products that appear in grocery freezer aisles — that were widely distributed across the continent. Executives at Mann Packing decided to recall their products after a single positive result for Listeria was discovered during a random test by Canadian food inspectors.
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Food Navigator
"Floating food" that delivers more intense sweet, bitter and umami flavors via ultrasound could be the start of a culinary trend that sends combinations of food items directly to consumers' taste buds.
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Supermarket News
Aldi's stores in California are averaging higher volumes than many of its locations around the country as consumers are attracted to its expanded perishables offering, convenience and low prices, according to a recent report.
Aldi stores in California are averaging volumes of about $20 million to $22 million annually, said Burt Flickinger III, managing director at Strategic Resource Group, which recently conducted a pricing study in the market.
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