Food Industry

From the New York Times Does food transmit Coronavirus?   Basically no (with some cautions).  See yesterday’s post for details. Keeping up Coronoavirus   Healthroid has a summary.  The maps are updated daily Food Policy Watch: This weekly newsletter does a terrific job of keeping up with news reports, especially those explaining…

Well, it was bound to happen. With COVID-19 causing both massive runs on food in grocery stores and a concerning shortage of farmworkers, keeping the food industry producing food is a significant concern. That isn’t going to get any easier now that the first employee at a meat plant has…

LA HABRA, CA - MARCH 17: Shoppers pass by empty bread shelves at the Northgate Market. (Photo by ... Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images Like hand sanitizer at the local supermarket, reassurance for anxious grocery shoppers is in short supply as the…

The importance of treating migrants with dignity and respect has not changed, UN migration agency (IOM), spokesperson Joel Millman has told UN News, adding that the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on migrants, highly represented in the food industry, which is now seeing widespread shutdowns, is ‘a huge concern’…

Just like being overweight for humans can lead to serious health conditions—the same applies to dogs. According to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP), 55.8% of dogs are classified as over weight. To make matters worse, 95% of owners don’t even know their pets are overweight, which the APOP refers…

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The UK food industry is calling on the government to deliver a massive economic package to ensure it can continue to feed the nation, including seconding hospitality workers to “to plug the gaps that are already appearing on our production lines”.Leading food businesses reassured environment secretary George Eustice at a…

Optical anticounterfeiting, typically using luminescent materials to encode and unveil hidden patterns, plays an essential role in countering fraud in trademark, document security, food industry, and public safety. However, this technique is often realized through color-encoded fashion and in the visible range, preventing high-order encryption as well as visualization through…

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Cleaned-out shelves at a Manhattan Whole Foods on Friday. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Shoppers stocking up on supplies have overwhelmed grocery stores across the country over the past few days, as schools close, employees are sent home, and cities and states adopt drastic social distancing measures. In New…