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REGISTER NOW FOR THE IPO GLOBAL PINEAPPLE CONFERENCE IN COSTA RICA ....









Register now for the IPO Global Pineapple Conference to be held at the San Jose Marriott Hotel, in San Jose, Costa Rica.







Friday, November 01, 2013













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PACKAGING EXPERTS DISCUSS THE ROLE OF FOOD SAFETY ...







Article | MAY 8, 2013







Judges of the 25th DuPont Awards share their insights on how packaging can play a more crucial role in ensuring the safety and security of our global food resources.








By Anne Marie Mohan, Editor, Greener Package










Efforts to feed a growing population involve every aspect of the “farm-to-fork” value chain. 




DuPont, which believes collaboration stimulates insights and action, asked packaging thought leaders to discuss how packaging can play a more critical role in ensuring food safety and security. 





Their comments were made after judging of the 25th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.






Tony Burns, associate director, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH USA:


“We need to look holistically at the entire system and integrate with the end product in mind instead of looking at just the product; just the material. It’s very easy to bucket things into our areas of expertise. We’re selling brand experience, so we need to look at the whole system. We need to look at system and total system benefit.”







Jason Wadsworth, sustainability manager, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., USA:



“Solutions start with asking the right questions. What is the ‘need’ to be solved? What is the right packaging to solve that need? Food waste is a huge problem. We need to help customers understand this, and packaging can help support change in consumer behavior by offering portion control and longer shelf life. Most of all, we need to remember packaging’s primary purpose—to protect and preserve.”









Sudhakar Gupta, director, international business development, IFFCO Group of Companies at International Food Stuffs Company, UAE:



“There are a number of ways packaging can play a greater role in food safety and security. We need to find a way to package products for a longer shelf life and to protect products from distribution through consumption. To contribute efficiently with the environment, we need a cradle-to-cradle approach. We need to design from beginning to end. That will help achieve natural sustainability.”






Sommai Tachasirinugune, Ph.D., executive vice president, R&D - Food Processing Business, Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Co. Ltd., Thailand:



“Packaging is an increasingly important component in food safety and security. Companies need to invest in research and development for more innovative ways that packaging can keep food fresh and protected it until the food is consumed.”







Shanna Moore, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers director of sustainability and leader of the DuPont Packaging Awards program:



“It starts by recognizing that there is no greater role that packaging can play today than the role of protecting and preserving food. When we agree it is priority and we know where the challenges lie—in long-distance distribution, in preserving nutrients, in reducing waste, just to name a few—then we can come together, set goals for packaging, and develop strong programs to combat the issue. But it starts with alignment and collaboration throughout the value chain.”










Jeff Schuetz, staff vice president, global technology, Consumer Packaging, Sonoco, USA:



“Our industry should continue to come to together and educate about the value of packaging and communicate more about the environmental footprint of the package.”










David Luttenberger, CPP - vice president/packaging strategist for Iconoculture's Global Packaging Advisory Service, USA:



“Focus on some of the packaging award winners to showcase how packaging enables safer foods, broader distribution of healthcare products. Engage the major media—outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Good Morning America—media outside the of world of packaging that influence the conversations we have every day. This will bring a greater awareness and possibly generate more ways packaging can help solve issues surrounding health, safety, and food. Any one of these winning technologies could be a front-page story.”








Mary Gregg, director, packaging, Campbell North America, Global R&D, Campbell Soup Company, USA:



“I agree with the idea of engaging the major media outlets. Right now, packaging is getting negative feedback. The plastics industry is doing a pretty good job showing how plastics make your life better, but nothing is really focused on packaging. We need to step up and highlight how packaging can help solve the big societal problems, so there can be a greater appreciation of packaging.”








Ann O’Hara, vice president and general manager, Amcor Flexibles, Australia:



“Side-by-side case studies that highlight the advantages of packaging can help people clearly see the importance of packaging.”








The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, sponsored by DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers,   are the industry's longest-running, global, independently judged celebration of innovation and collaboration throughout the value chain. 




Winners of the 25th annual awards will be announced on May 17. 







Follow DuPont Packaging: @dupontpackaging- 



See more at: http://www.packworld.com/trends-and-issues/food-waste/packagings-role-ensuring-food-safety-and-security




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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT : THE IMPACT ON GLOBAL TRADE OF THE SEA CONTAINER ...













Posted By Joshua Keating  Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 1:48 PM  





The invention and widespread adoption of the standardized shipping container is one of the more underrated technological advances of the 20th century, though it's been getting some moreattention in recent years. 



Containerization dramatically reduced the amount of time cargo ships spent in port and increased the efficiency of the shipping industry. 








Research by U.K.-based economists Daniel Bernhofen, Zouheir al-Sali, and Richard Kneller attempts to measure just how dramatic an impact containerization had on driving the boom in global trade of the late 20th century. By way of historical background, they write:





Before the advent of containerization, the technology for unloading general cargo through the process of break-bulk shipping had hardly changed since the Phoenicians traded along the coast of the Mediterranean. 


The loading and unloading of individual items in barrels, sacks and wooden crates from land transport to ship and back again on arrival was slow and labor-intensive. 



Technological advances through the use of ropes for bundling timber and pallets for stacking and transporting bags or sacks yielded some efficiency gains, but the handling of cargo was almost as labor intensive after World War II as it was during the beginning of the Victorian age. 





All this changed following the retrofitting of ports to handle standardized containers, beginning in the United States in the late 1950s:





On January 9, 1959 the world's first purpose-built container crane started to operate and was capable of loading one 40,000-pound box every three minutes. 



The productivity gains from using this container crane were staggering, as it could handle 400 tons per hours, more than 40 times the average productivity of a longshore gang.



(12) Investment in larger shipping capacity became now profitable since containerization dramatically reduced a ship's average time in ports.





 The authors estimate that containerization increased the average productivity of dock labor from 1.7 tons per hour to 30 tones per hour and cut the amount of capital locked up as inventory in transit in half.






So what was the cummulative impact of this on globalization? 



The authors find that the impact was far more significant for trade between developed nations -- where adoption of containerization was far more widespread -- than in trade between developed and developing countries, where its spread was slower. 




Restricting their sample to just "north-north" trade, they find that containerization was responsible for a 700 percent increase in trade in the 20 years following its adoption in 1966.



 These is a greater impact than free-trade agreements during this period or the adoption of the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.


Not bad for a big metal box.





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PINEAPPLE FOOD PROCESSORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO JOIN THE IPO ....






The International Pineapple Organization (IPO) encourages all sectors of the Pineapple supply chain to join the IPO Board.

Frozen & IQF Tropical Fruit Processors are welcome as well!
The IPO Board is gaining momentum in anticipation of the Global Pineapple Conference to be held in San Jose , Costa Rica on November 01 & 02, 2013.
Please learn more about the IPO Board:
http://i-pineapple-a.blogspot.com/2013/04/ipo-membership-continues-to-grow-in.html

As well as the Global Pineapple Conference in Costa Rica :

http://i-pineapple-a.blogspot.com/2013/04/1st-global-pineapple-conference-to-be.html









UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN OF POPULAR FRUIT : THE FRUIT HUNTERS MOVIE (Part I)
































FSMA : FDA SEEKS 300 million dollars to enforce Food Safety in 2014 ....









April 10 | Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:59pm EDT






(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it is requesting a budget of $4.7 billion in fiscal 2014, including $295.8 million to implement new food safety regulations.




The proposed budget represents an increase over the $4.03 billion included in the 2013 budget after automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress, known as the sequester.





The FDA is financed in part with funds authorized by Congress and in part by fees charged to industry to cover the cost of reviewing and approving new drugs.






The agency's commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, said in a statement that the request reflects "tight budget times" and said 94 percent of the proposed increase will come from new fees to support the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and strengthen the FDA's ability to oversee imported food.





 Under the new law, the FDA for the first time will be allowed to penalize U.S. companies that fail to monitor produce they import from abroad, an extra layer of protection for inspectors whose resources are stretched thin.






The FSMA was signed into law in January 2011 and represents the most sweeping reform of food safety laws in more than 70 years. 




It is designed to move the FDA into preventive mode, instead of its traditional reactive mode of taking action after an outbreak of food-borne illnesses.




(Reporting By Toni Clarke in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)








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