Oliver Hedgepeth, supply chain logistics professor at American Public University System, discusses how consumer tastes and purchasing patterns have changed, and how food suppliers must respond.

In February, the labor department fined PSSI $1.5m for employing at least 102 children ages 13 to 17 across 13 meat-packing plants in eight states.

The United States Department of Agriculture will be creating 12 new USDA Regional Food Business Centers and launching a $420 million Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Program.

Full Harvest has expanded its online marketplace so it can handle all grades of produce, from USDA Grade 1 to surplus and imperfect products.

Over the past three years, retailers have been wrestling with product shortages and increasingly painful out-of-stock issues. More recently, however, they’ve been struggling with overstocks.

Companies make thousands of decisions a day about what to produce, where to put product and what to promote. But they often make those decisions based on very limited information.

The report also showed that shoppers’ definitions of loyalty are reportedly moving away from the idea of exclusivity.

The lack of a West Coast labor contract between the ILWU and the PMA could be “dangerous” and “permanent,” executive director Friedmann warned.

The FDA has long been criticized for lapses in inspections of overseas manufacturing in China and India, which are the two major producers of drugs and raw ingredients for medicines.