Food-borne illnesses can be deadly. Yet when people hear about a food recall — even for something serious like E.coli — they usually determine whether or not they recently purchased that item and move on, not stopping to consider what the situation implies about the U.S. food supply chain.
The great avocado affair of 2022 began with a little-noticed weekend press release from Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry. The U.S. was shutting down imports of avocados from Mexico’s top producing region because one of its inspectors received a threatening phone call.
Nestle SA will offer cocoa farmers and their families in the Ivory Coast cash incentives that aim to reduce child labor, as the chocolate industry faces growing scrutiny over the problem.
From erecting cardboard cutouts designed to obscure produce shortages to jettisoning their usual discounts and promotions, grocers have turned to a range of solutions to get themselves through the global supply chain crisis.
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