Retailer & Foodservice

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Cannabis, whole genome sequencing, blockchain discussed at 2019 Food Safety Summit

May 15, 2019

The 21st Annual Food Safety Summit occurred last week in Rosemont, IL, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, and over 1,400 food safety professionals representing the leading foodservice and retail establishments, manufacturers and processors, distributors, regulators, and academicians attended.

FDA issues statement on steps to usher U.S. into new era of smarter food safety

April 30, 2019

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Today’s technology-focused world has morphed the way our society operates, creating a highly complex and globally interconnected landscape that is fundamentally changing the way foods move from farm to table.

Walmart to create own supply chain for Angus beef

April 30, 2019

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Company plans to offer Angus beef cuts in 500 stores.

Albertsons Companies to join blockchain-based IBM Food Trust Network to pilot increased transparency for romaine lettuce

Grocer is the latest company to adopt blockchain-based traceability system for global food ecosystem

April 16, 2019

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Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, is joining the blockchain-based IBM Food Trust network and will begin piloting the technology to improve how food is traced from farm to store shelf.

Seven ways to ensure the safety of packaged foods

Daniel Bellingham

December 28, 2018

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Food safety regulations across the globe exist to ensure that only safe, uncontaminated packaged foods are available for purchase.

McDonald's announces plans to reduce antibiotics in beef

December 18, 2018

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Restaurant chain announces plan to reduce usage of antibiotics important to human health.

Survey shows most Americans remain confused about GMOs

69% of consumers are not confident they know what GMOs are, and less than a third of Americans (32%) say they are comfortable with the use of GMOs in their food products.

October 9, 2018

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GMO Answers, an initiative committed to responding to consumer questions about how their food is grown, released the findings of a new YouGov survey, finding that a majority of Americans aren't confident they definitely know what genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are.

Using IOT in the food service industry

IOT remote monitoring of key assets should be a top operations priority

Melanie Bradley

October 7, 2018

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The deployment of an IoT solution provides a “second pair of eyes” that continuously manages and monitors key equipment within the facility, freeing up time to perform other critical, necessary tasks and activities.

Supply Chain

Fighting food fraud with the right tools

Analytical and software tools make it easier to manage suppliers and weed out fraudulent ones

Wayne Labs

October 5, 2018

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Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.

Food scientists study how virtual reality can alter consumers' tastebuds

Panelists rated the pungency of the blue cheese significantly higher in the cow barn setting than in the sensory booth or the virtual park bench.

October 5, 2018

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Food scientists from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., used virtual reality (VR) to show how people's perception of real food can be altered by their surroundings, according to "Dynamic Context Sensory Testing–A Proof of Concept Study Bringing Virtual Reality to the Sensory Booth."

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