Prepared foods are an increasingly important part of the grocery business, delivering fat margins at a time when sales of traditional packaged foods are lackluster. But the strategy also comes with serious risks.

The Compliance Map, a developer of environmental-compliance software, has launched the Compliance Map Origin Determination Module.

The Obama Administration's proposed traceability rule to address seafood fraud in the United States does not increase transparency for the majority of the seafood sold in the U.S., and it should be expanded to include all seafood and extended through the full supply chain.

Food loss and waste costs businesses billions of dollars each year and it generates about 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten.