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House endorses 25-year old rules for rail merger review
A coalition opposing the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger got a boost from a powerful House committee that called for a thorough review of the deal that would create the first all-freight transcontinental railroad. The…
Eight indicted in alleged carrier impersonation scheme; prosecutors allege $4.49 million in cargo losses
Eight individuals have been indicted in New York in connection with what prosecutors allege was a multi-state cargo theft operation. Prosecutors allege the scheme involved the unauthorized use of shipment information and the…
Added water in fish and traceability key concerns in Europe
Added water in fish products and traceability concerns were among the suspected fraud issues raised in April by European countries. Four alerts mentioned the United States in April including benzoic acid in a soft drink,…
FDA warns bakeries after finding undeclared sesame in rolls, signs of rodents and sanitation failures
As part of its enforcement activities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.…
FSA’s meat inspection charges found to be ‘unlawful’
A judge has ruled that how the Food Standards Agency (FSA) charges the meat industry for controls is unlawful. According to the High Court judgement, at least some costs were unlawfully included in the assessment of both…
Publisher’s Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out…
Publisher’s Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don’t Look Away
Today is World Food Safety Day, and this year the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization have given us a theme that sounds almost like it was written for the work I have spent the last three…
Borderlands Mexico: Uber Freight sees earlier peak season, strong Mexico demand
Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: Uber Freight sees earlier peak season, stronger Mexico demand;…
Sunday Edition: MCOOL
The World Health Organization (WHO) is marking World Food Safety Day on June 7 with the release of new global estimates of the impact of foodborne illness. Unsafe food is responsible for about 866 million illnesses and 1.5…
Truckload’s shrinking miles
Chart of the Week: Outbound Average Length of Haul – USA SONAR: OALOHA.USA Despite the ongoing tightening of the domestic truckload market, the trend of shrinking load lengths that began in 2024 shows little sign of…
