Maintaining a Strong Produce Supply Chain
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Produce Industry Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities
The produce industry is facing more supply chain challenges than ever before. But, with any challenges, there are usually opportunities and solutions. This is true for the produce industry. Perhaps the biggest supply chain challenge is the availability of trucks and drivers. Peak produce seasons exacerbate the trucking shortage. Produce is perishable and many of the trucks transporting the produce must be equipped with reefers (refrigerated units) for the transportation of temperature sensitive cargo. During peak seasons, truckers with reefers are in short supply.
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Preventing a Produce Labor Shortage
Our food supply is typically very stable. Rain or shine, field and packinghouse workers harvest and process food for the American people. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a level of uncertainty which leads people to wonder what will happen if outbreaks of illness at many locations prevent workers from harvesting. If not addressed, lack of labor could affect planting and harvesting of the fresh fruits and vegetables we need for good health.
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Produce Shelf Life: Issues and Extension Methods from Harvest to Retailer
Produce is a highly perishable commodity making shelf life a race against the clock for growers, processors and retailers. With national averages of produce shrinkage at 6%, according to the Produce Marketing Association, shelf life costs US retailers in excess of $2.1 billion per year. This paper will review factors that shorten and extend shelf life, and multiple methods to extend and measure produce shelf life as it pertains to produce processed from harvest to delivery to the retail facility.
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Food Safety: What is Safe Food
Safe food is defined as food free of contamination with contamination occurring at any point in the growing, preparing, processing, storing, selling or serving of food. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 70% of all foodborne disease is due to viruses spread by direct or indirect contact with infected individuals. The CDC further states that 5,000 people die each year from tainted food, 325,000 are hospitalized and 76 million people become ill annually from food contamination.
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Bluetooth Low Energy Devices: The Right Temperature Monitoring Solution for Your Produce Shipment
It’s a new year, but those in the food industry walk into it with an age-old problem – how to get food from point A to point B before it goes bad. In the days prior to refrigeration and rapid transit, people were extremely limited in terms of the methods available to preserve food while moving it from one place to another. Of course, today, with the growth of commerce, the burden of keeping food fresh during transport is not only a public health issue, but a legal one.
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Extending Shelf Life: Ethylene Absorption Packaging Strategies for Produce Transport
Historically how to preserve and store food for consumption when there might be a food shortage has given birth to such packaging innovations as using glass, wooden barrels and cans to protect and later transport food. The invention of the cardboard box at the end of the 19th century and the invention and discovery of plastic and polyethylene in the 1920s and1930s opened up a new era in protecting and transporting foods.
More Produce Supply Chain Resources
- Barron’s: “How to Prepare Supply Chains for the Next Global Shock”
- FMCSA/Registration/Commercial Drivers License/CDL Under 21 Pilot
- FMCSA Regulations/Hours of Service
- FMCSA Regulations/Hours of Service/ELD Hours of Service (HOS) and Agriculture Exemptions
- Food supply chain resilience and the COVID‐19 pandemic: What have we learned?
- NAPTWG: Produce Transportation Best Practices
- Next Exit Logistics: New Guidance on the 150 Air-Mile Hours of Service Agricultural Exemption
- Trucker Nation, “What is the ELD Mandate for Truckers”
- Supply Chains for the Production of Agricultural Commodities and Food Products
- PMA and United Fresh to Create New Global Trade Association
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