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TraceGains, a full service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution, host a new webinar series "What Is Safe Food?" The upcoming webinar will feature a distinguished panel including Karil Kochenderfer of Linkages, a consultancy specializing in global trade, government, and public affairs.

TraceGains, a full service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution, hosts a new webinar series “What Is Safe Food?” The upcoming webinar will feature a distinguished panel including Karil Kochenderfer of Linkages, a consultancy specializing in global trade, government, and public affairs, Beth Johnson, founder of Food Directions, and advisory group and consultancy focused on food labeling legislation, and Jessica Wasserman of Wasserman & Associates, a D.C.-based lawyer and advisor on food regulatory and import/export issues.

TraceGains, a full service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution, co-produced an e-book for food manufacturers. One recommended best practice is for food manufacturers to prepare and implement a written food safety plan, which includes a hazard analysis, preventative controls (e.g., process controls, food allergen controls, sanitation controls, and recall plan), monitoring procedures, corrective actions, verification activities, and recordkeeping.

TraceGains, a leader in supplier document management in the food industry, was featured in Food Logistics magazine. A survey of food manufacturers found companies justified expanding technology solutions required integration of ERP data.

At their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Mirach Metallurgy produces high quality tinplate sheets to be used in the packaging industry. The tinplate produced by them is healthy for packaging processed foods such as milk powder, fish products and others. Since 1999 the company has been supplying their tinplate sheets as a packaging solution for various industries. Today, Mirach Metallurgy is recognized as a reliable tinplate manufacturer by a number of industrial clients all across the world.

TraceGains, a leader in supplier document management in the food industry, was featured in Food Logistics magazine. A survey of food manufacturers found companies justified expanding technology solutions required integration of ERP data.

How food companies build a process that delivers cost and value improvement every year was profiled by Bill Michels, a leading expert in purchasing and supply chain management, during a TraceGains event. Michels covered the supplier relationship management process, identifying which suppliers are good candidates for supplier relationship management (SRM), as well as how companies can drive collaboration with suppliers. The need to establish clear processes through which buyers and suppliers interface and collaborate.

Water challenges could restrict business growth. More than four-fifths of food and consumer goods companies say that water poses a fundamental risk to their business, according to a new report from CDP. The TraceGains’ newsletter, Industry Insider, reported that many companies in the food and consumer sector were concerned about water availability and quality.

In the current TraceGains’ newsletter, Industry Insider, Charles Breen was interviewed. Breen, Senior Consultant, CMBreen LLC discussed important issues with TraceGains. Many aspects of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) are currently in effect, including biannual registration, administrative detention, and mandatory recall. The preventive control rules for human and animal feed are scheduled to be published in mid-August 2015, and become effective 60 days later. Enforcement by FDA will begin one year after the rule issues. Breen explained how the FDA Expects food manufacturers to comply with FSMA.

Wholesale Direct Restaurant Supplies is now offering plastic portion cups at reasonable prices. The company supplies the finest range of plastic cups that are trendy and easy to carry. Their cups come in different shapes and with different carrying capacity. These are designed with the intention to make it an ideal choice for storing sauces, salads, dressing items, and other side foods. Most of their plastic portion cups are transparent and absolutely safe to be used in microwave. Along with the cups, customers will also get appropriate lids with these containers which prevent any spillages.

TraceGains, a leader in supplier document management in the food industry, was featured in Food Logistics magazine. The article, authored by manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, was titled, “The Survey Says: Leveraging Existing Technology Investments a Top Priority for Food Manufacturers.”

Restaurants on the Run has been the industry leader for the last 21 years in corporate food delivery, yet have just recently begun to garner public attention. They serve over 100 of the Forbes 500, feed 12 - 15k professionals a day, and have service areas in to 9 out of 10 of the top 10 metropolitan US cities. But why have you never heard their name before? Because they've been focusing on perfecting and re-perfecting their mantra of Foodgistics - the science behind effective food delivery that has earned a 99% accuracy and satisfaction rate. Now that they've put the finishing touches on their advanced tracking, measurement and logistics technology - they're ready to work on their public image. The new website launched this week and they're stepping into the public eye in the coming year in a big way.

TraceGains is offering a highly anticipated webinar providing updates from Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The webinar will be Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 12:00 pm (EST) presented by Antonio Gallegos and Charles M. Breen.

TraceGains, a full service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution, and Stephanie Lopez, Vice President of Food Safety Services Innovation at AIB International have co-produced an e-Book addressing food manufacturers best practices for allergen control programs.

American Grocery, the only UK site that offers customers genuine and exclusive US groceries, released a statement that new American candy bars, chocolates, and other food items are now available. With this development, the online retailer is determined to increase its service and client base.

Taiwan witnessed a further fall in birth rates during 2013, with the fertility rate standing at 1.07 births per woman versus 1.27 in 2012. The low birth rate in 2013 was attributed to the Chinese horoscope year being the snake, which consumers deemed less auspicious. With the low birth rate in 2013, baby food packaging registered slower unit volume growth than in 2012.

Canned/preserved food packaging registered slower unit volume growth during 2013 versus 2012. Consumers' rising health consciousness in view of the government's continued healthy living campaigns led to a fall in demand for canned/preserved food in 2013. This was because of consumers' perception that canned/preserved food is unhealthy, laden with preservatives and high in salt, which also directly impacted the performance of canned/preserved food packaging.

Taiwan's economic recovery continues to enable consumers to purchase not only more chocolate confectionery, but also higher-quality premium products in 2013. Demand in Taiwan is being driven by convenience, evolving tastes and greater exposure to a wider variety of chocolate confectionery products.

While not a local product nor a key ingredient in local food, cheese has seen increasing popularity as the Taiwanese develop a taste for Western food. Value sales of cheese are expected to increase by 4% in current terms in 2013, a slightly lower rate than the previous year. As a key ingredient in pizza, burgers, sandwiches and pasta meals, the abundance of Western-style restaurants in Taiwan is providing key exposure to the many uses of cheese. In this sense, cheese consumption in the foodservice industry is helping to drive growth in a relatively-underdeveloped category. Nevertheless, education on both the health benefits of cheese, as well as the variety of cheese products and their applications is still needed.

Chilled processed food packaging recorded stronger unit volume growth in 2013 than 2012, owing to consumers' demand for convenient and quick meal solutions. Hectic lifestyles saw consumers focus on work and often just want a quick meal solution at the end of the day.

The essential nature of sauces, dressings and condiments contributed to the positive unit volume growth of its packaging in 2014. Consumers' rising health consciousness saw many increasingly willing to prepare their own meals instead of dining out. However, hectic lifestyles drove demand for convenient solutions such as wet/cooking sauces or dry sauces/powder mixes that can ease the cooking process, which benefitted the performance of pack types such as plastic pouches.

United Bottles & Packaging announces their new line of “Bottles with Style”, a product line that advocates the diversity attainable by their creative design team. The formats are all advertised under a generic product name being Elixir, allowing potential clients to see what their bottles would look like with full labeling and marketing directly on the bottles.

Flexsil-lid (http://www.flexsil-lid.com), the Australian company behind the innovative re-usable food cover created to keep contents fresh for longer, released their new logo and website as part of their new revamped and fresh look.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its fee rates for fiscal year (FY) 2015 for certain domestic and foreign facility reinspections. Jennifer Brusco, Marketing Specialist for TraceGains, informed food manufacturers in the current company blog, “Failure to comply with a recall order, and importer reinspections, authorized by the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as amended by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), is subject to the newly announced fees.”