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Industry association executives responded to a recent government report on traceability by acknowledging the report's disclosures about failures on the part of food facilities to follow federal traceability regulations, while insisting that the...
ALBANY, N.Y. Despite a sweeping campaign conducted by Wegmans, Price Chopper and other New York grocers interested in selling wine, a revenue-generating state budget proposal that would have allowed them to do so was abandoned by legislators here...
Wal-Mart Stores and Stop & Shop Supermarkets topped the list of employers with 50 or more employees requiring health care subsidies from the state of Massachusetts.
Three food retailers last week issued a proposal for compromise on controversial labor legislation, seeking to eliminate the card check component of the bills. Costco Wholesale Corp., Whole Foods Market and Starbucks Corp. formed the Committee for...
In the wake of at least nine deaths, nearly 700 illnesses and more than 3,800 recalls tied to unsanitary conditions at processing plants operated by the Peanut Corp. of America, the role of the third-party auditing companies hired to vet the food...
The food industry is prepared to work with government to “identify and address gaps in our current traceability system,” said Dr. Craig Henry, senior vice president and chief science & regulatory affairs operating officer for the...
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., will oppose the controversial labor bill known as the Employee Free Choice Act, according to reports yesterday, diminishing chances for the bill in the Senate.
President Obama has unveiled a plan to reform food safety laws and to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration, moves long sought by the food retailing industry. As supermarket operators have been buffeted by recall after recall most recently...
As expected, both the House and Senate introduced versions of the Employee Free Choice Act last week although it appeared that the measure may stall in the Senate again this year, despite increased Democratic majorities and the support of both...