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 Dec. 22, 2011 Home   Public Policy   Member Services   Industry Resources    Events    News & Media   About Us     Food safety topics should headline inspection meetings USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a directive this week emphasizing the importance of weekly meetings between inspection program and import inspection personnel and the establishments they inspect. More Share this article >     Food Safety Working Group: A progress report The White House The Food Safety Working Group created by President Barack Obama in 2009 has issued a progress report calling for federal agencies to work collaboratively to protect consumers and the global food system. Related articles: White House claims progress in food safety efforts (CIDRAP) Vilsack calls for limiting antibiotic use in animal agriculture (The Hill) FDA issues new safety rules for beef (WebMD Health News via Medscape) Food safety this holiday season (The White House Blog) More Share this article >     Opinion: 'Nasty, rotty stuff' The Wall Street Journal "Nasty, rotty stuff" — that's the verdict from student Mayra Gutierrez on the new healthful menu introduced this year by the Los Angeles Unified School District. And she's not alone, according to the Los Angeles Times. More Share this article >     Campaigns capitalize on Facebook POLITICO Ron Paul is averaging $2 million a day. Newt Gingrich is putting his supporters to work making online phone calls. And President Barack Obama and other candidates have embedded Facebook into the very DNA of their campaign websites. Is this the cycle in which presidential campaigns finally figure out how to use Facebook effectively as a campaign tool? More Share this article >     Romney takes aim at Obama again The Wall Street Journal An increasingly confident Mitt Romney is looking beyond his Republican rivals and again focusing his attacks on President Barack Obama, using a three-day swing through New Hampshire to frame his candidacy as a choice between the president's "entitlement society" and the "merit society" Romney envisions. More Share this article >     Romney begins final pitch to New Hampshire voters POLITICO Mitt Romney began making his closing argument to voters in his adopted home state on Wednesday. More Share this article >     Retailers fret as NLRB rule becomes final Supermarket News The National Labor Relations Board said Wednesday it had adopted a final rule to speed the union election process, drawing howls of protest — and a lawsuit — from retailers and other business groups. More Share this article >     Senators ask labor secretary to withdraw 'misguided' child farming regulations The Hill Thirty senators are calling on Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to withdraw — immediately — proposed federal rules that would limit the work young people can perform on farms. More Share this article >     New alliance to develop preventive controls training U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA, in cooperation with the Institute for Food Safety and Health, has created the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance to develop training courses and materials to help industry, particularly small- and medium-sized companies, comply with the upcoming preventive control rules. More Share this article >     Japan halts beef imports from 1 US meat plant Reuters Japan halted beef imports from a Nebraska-based packing plant after finding material prohibited under rules to control the risk of mad cow disease, the government said Wednesday. More Share this article >     Schumer urges stricter seafood rules to level playing field Times Herald-Record Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, praised the innovative work being done at Continental Organics and vowed Wednesday to level the field of competition between U.S. fish farming operations and China. More Share this article >     Senate considers Clean Ports Act Truckinginfo A bill that would give ports more authority over drayage operations has been introduced in the Senate. Among other things, the bill would clear the way for ports to ban owner-operators and require all drivers to be employees of companies. More Share this article >     EU antibiotics legislation threatens US exports AllAboutFeed.net To maintain country-to-country relationships, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working to meet requests from the European Union to confirm the safety of U.S. products. Related article: Aflatoxin feed recalls in US point to tighter rules ahead (Reuters via Manitoba Co-operator) More Share this article >     European Food Safety Authority approves GE corn for cultivation Food Chemical News The European Food Safety Authority has given Syngenta's genetically engineered GA21 corn variety the green light for cultivation, Agra Europe reports. Related article: Is genetic engineering kosher? (Biofortified) More Share this article >     Staph rules to relax in China The Economic Observer The Economic Observer has reported China's Ministry of Health plans to introduce a new food safety standard for certain kinds of frozen food, slightly relaxing zero-tolerance restrictions on golden staph. More Share this article >     Convert Pallet into Carton Flow Span-Track carton flow track by UNEX ‘drops-in’ to any new or existing pallet rack structure. Span-Track’s full width roller provides more contact surface than any other carton flow. Product tested for durability within Freezer environments to deliver superior flow with product always at the pick point. Request a free sample … Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting Systems Warehouse lighting can account for as much as 40% of the total electricity in a facility. Now there is something you can do to slash your carbon footprint and control those costs. The Digital Lumens award-winning Intelligent Lighting System combines LED fixtures with intelligence – integrated controls, sensors, networking and reporting – to reduce lighting energy use by up to 90%. MORE VISYS sorting systems Visys’ digital sorters detect and remove foreign bodies as well as defective, undesirable or contaminated product from your product streams on differences in color, biostructure, shape and/or density. Our world-class sorters incorporate the latest state-of-art technologies based on lasers, near-infrared, color, metal and x-ray sensors or any combination thereof. Top worst supermarket foods revealed Food Product Design The authors of "Eat This, Not That! All New Supermarket Survival Guide" have released their list of the worst supermarket foods. Coming in at No. 1 was Marie Callender's Cheesy Chicken Pot Pie, which contains 1,140 calories and 72 grams of fat. More Share this article >     Looking for a bigger 'pizza' the action Quick Frozen Foods International Cono Italiano, the exclusive license holder for North American distribution and manufacturing rights to the "pizza cono," has completed a plant for production of another frozen product be launched in January 2012. More Share this article >     Land O' Frost to buy Nebraska sausage maker Refrigerated & Frozen Foods The nation's largest privately held packaged lunch meat processor, Land O' Frost, Inc., said it expects by the end of January to complete a purchase of Wimmer's Meats, a specialty sausage and hot dog processor in West Point, Neb. Terms were not disclosed. More Share this article >     UK survey: Growth in frozen food accelerates Talking Retail The latest market data shows surging year-on-year growth for the U.K.'s frozen food retail market, which is up by 5.2 percent in value, according to the British Frozen Food Federation. More Share this article >     Nestle, Danone flee Shanghai The Economic Observer Danone has just closed its Shanghai yogurt plant, Nestle says it's going to shut down its local ice cream factory and Pepsico has sold off 24 bottling plants in China. What's forcing foreign food makers out? More Share this article >     Amy's Kitchen to delay conversion of former Sara Lee facility BakingBusiness.com Amy's Kitchen, a maker of natural and organic convenience foods, said it is delaying the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Greenville, S.C., for a few years. More Share this article >     10 packaging machinery trends for 2012 Packaging World With the North American economy beginning to show some positive signs, there is a pent-up demand for new packaging, new products, new acquisitions and new technologies to increase packaging line productivity. More Share this article >     Pepper recall expanded Canadian Food Inspection A recall of fresh jalapeno peppers has been expanded to include Serrano peppers as well, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned. More Share this article >     Economist sees modest pork industry expansion USAgNet Ron Plain, University of Missouri agricultural economist, says hog producers enjoyed record hog prices this summer, which he believe has caused some modest herd expansion. More Share this article >     United States Cold Storage Nationwide cold storage warehousing, transportation and customized services 34 nationwide locations to serve you. MORE CO-PACKING. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. SOURCING & SUPPLY Harvest creates and manufactures innovative frozen food products for some of the best brands in the industry. From ingredient supply to complete meal creation, we can help you every step of the way. Harvest Food Group…Leading the Way in Frozen Foods. MORE   Frozen Express Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, (469) 420-2601 Download media kit Valerie Hunt, Content Editor, (469) 420-2690    Contribute news This edition of Frozen Express was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! Recent issues Dec. 22, 2011 Dec. 21, 2011 Dec. 20, 2011 Dec. 19, 2011 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063