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2015 Predictions: Food and Flavors

Enterra Insights

Although the end-of-the-year prediction season generally involves prognostications about things like emerging technologies, the economy, political events, and the like, … Continued The post 2015 Predictions: Food and Flavors appeared first on Enterra Solutions. Food and Drink Miscellaneous Supply Chain'

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Smithfield Foods Improves its Brand with a Robust Sustainability Program

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2015, Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, got terrible publicity when a spy drone flew over farms operated by one of their subsidiaries and took pictures of lagoons filled with pig feces and urine. Smithfield has certainly upped their sustainability game. Last week, on May 8th, the company released […].

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Food Safety in the Warehouse: The Role of Your 3PL

Kanban Logistics

Protecting the integrity and safety of your food products is not only your responsibility as a manufacturer or shipper, but also the responsibility of every logistics provider that touches the product throughout the supply chain. 5 Ways That 3PL Providers Protect Food Safety in the Warehouse. According to the USA Today , “The U.S.

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Potential Food Sector Ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Part 1

Enterra Insights

Jim Dippold, Senior Vice President for Category Management Strategy at Enterra Solutions ®, put together a list of potential impacts the pandemic could have on the food sector in fourteen different areas. Food is likely to play an important role in people’s lives during isolation. including the ways we shop and dine.

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Evans Distribution Systems Earns Fifth ISO 9001:2015 Certification

3PL Insights

15, 2020— Evans Distribution Systems, a provider of third-party logistics and supply chain solutions, has earned another ISO 9001:2015 certification for its fifth facility located on Huron River Drive in Romulus, Mich. The ISO 9001:2015 certification is the leading industry standard for quality management. MELVINDALE, Mich. ,

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Impact of Food Safety Modernization Act on Transportation

Talking Logistics

and Pamela Johnston , vice president, legal and risk at Transplace (a Talking Logistics sponsor), on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and its impact on the supply chain. A 3PL or warehouseman may be considered a shipper, which is defined as “a person who initiates a shipment of food by motor vehicle or rail vehicle.”

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Reducing Emissions in the Food & Beverage Industry Requires Farmers to Make Progress

Logistics Viewpoints

Global food companies are increasingly promising to make progress in reducing emissions across their end-to-end value chain. But in its most recent report, McDonald’s disclosed that the company’s emissions in 2021 were 12 percent higher than its 2015 baseline. In the food & beverage industry, farmers are the key suppliers.