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WITH SO MUCH ATTENTION being given these days to food safety and the importance of tracking and tracing products, it is important to understand the difference between traceability within your own four walls (internal traceability) vs. traceability...
There's no single way to accomplish traceability. Businesses, government and trade organizations are all starting to offer product traceback capabilities. A few examples: On-label traceability: Red Blossom Farms, Murray's Chicken and others...
BETWEEN THE SPINACH SCARE OF 2006 and last year's rash of meat recalls, recent history has made people think twice about the food they're buying. According to the Food Marketing Institute's most recent report on U.S. shopping trends, consumer...
Last week's recall of 143 million pounds of beef by Chino, Calif.-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. the largest beef recall in U.S. history has led to new calls for overhauling the nation's food safety and inspection processes. Retailers...
Food safety is one of the biggest issues on the minds of industry executives, reflecting a high priority for consumers as well, according to an industry panel at the National Grocers Association's annual convention here. Other issues the panel...
PMA CREATES POSITION FOR SAFETY, SCIENCE INITIATIVES NEWARK, Del. The Produce Marketing Association here has named Robert Whitaker its first chief scientific officer. In this position, Whitaker will direct the creation of new programs and services...
Biological terrorism on the U.S. food supply chain is still a very real threat, Michael Sealy, vice president, Risk Management Services, Giant Eagle, Pittsburgh, said during the Retail Industry Leaders Association's Logistics 2008 conference here...
Led by a recent report in The New York Times on high levels of mercury discovered in a sampling of tuna from several sushi restaurants here, consumer concerns about mercury in tuna and other seafood are on the rise again. In response, several...
Wal-Mart Stores last week said that it will become the first nationwide food retailer to require suppliers of its private-label and other food products including produce, meat, fish, poultry and ready-to-eat foods to have their production and...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has requested nearly $2.4 billion in funding to improve food inspection, and to improve safety and modernize the review of medical devices and drugs, as part of the President's 2009 budget. The funds would...