IFT Launches Traceability Center; Expo Looks At Food Safety, Choice
Volume 33Scan this codefor breakingnews and thelatest markets!INSIDE Guest column:‘Farm bill uncertainty.’For details, see page 4. Calif. Senate Ag Committeepasses bill to seek moremilk pricing hearings.For details, see page 5. Retail WATCH Exclusive:Old Europe Cheese innovatesin the Brie category.For details, see page 7. IDFA’s Detlefsen receivesaward from CFSAN.For details, see page 11.July 19, 2013Number 26IFT launches traceability center;Expo looks at food safety, choiceCHICAGO — Global food safetyand traceability, consumer foodchoices, and the impact of dieton physical and mental healthwere among topics coveredduring this week’s Instituteof Food Technologists (IFT)Annual Meeting & Food Expo.The 2013 meeting, held July13-16 at Chicago’s McCormickPlace Convention Center, attracted more than 23,500 foodprofessionals and more than1,100 exhibiting companies. Food safety and traceabilityAmong the week’s highlights was an announcementthat the IFT board of directorshas approved the launch of anew food traceability center designed to protect and improvethe global food supply. IFT saysCongress looks to next steps onfarm bill, CFTC reauthorizationWASHINGTON — The U.S. House this week formally sent its versionof the farm bill to the Senate for consideration after passing a pareddown version of the bill last week that did not include funding fordomestic nutrition programs.According to the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA),instead of considering the House version of the farm bill, the Senate is expected to strike everything but the title of the bill andreplace it with the Senate-passed version, which includes nutritionprogram funding as well as the Dairy Security Act, which includesa controversial supply management provision that would limit milkproduction in times of low producer margins. The House-passedversion of the farm bill includes an amendment to strike the supply management provision from farm bill legislation. (See “Housepasses farm bill that includes Goodlatte-Scott” in last week’s issueof Cheese Market News.)The Senate then could send the bill back to the House, but it isexpected to instead hold the bill and ask for the appointment of aconference committee to appoint conferees, an action that likely willbe taken by unanimous consent, IDFA says.Sources say top leaders of the House and Senate AgricultureCommittees met Thursday to begin their discussions, and the Senate later took the first steps to request a formal conference withthe House.As the House has yet to resolve what it intends to do regardingchanges with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),it is not clear if a conference committee will be formed soon. If theHouse agrees to a conference committee, House Speaker John Boehner,R-Ohio, would designate who will serve on the committee on behalf ofthe House, IDFA says.As the House sent its bill to the Senate Tuesday, Frank Lucas,Turn to WASHINGTON, page 12 athe Global Food TraceabilityCenter, which is the result ofthree traceability researchsummits IFT held in 2011,will serve as an authoritative,scientific and unbiased sourcefor food traceability.The center will assist companies to better trace the pathsof products through the supplychain to improve food safety,mitigate risk and avoid devastating health consequencesand economic impacts to thefood system, IFT says.“We will create a focal pointwhere industry, academic institutions, government, foundations and consumer groups candiscuss, collaborate, conductresearch, adopt best practicesand implement practical andactionable traceability solutions for the food system,”says Barbara Byrd Keenan, IFTexecutive vice president.Founding sponsors for theGlobal Food Traceability Center include Cargill Inc., FoodMarketing Institute, GS1 US,International Association forFood Protection, IntertekGroup, Lyngsoe Systems, MarsInc., National Fisheries Institute, Produce MarketingAssociation, Walmart and theUniversity of Guelph.For more information, visitthe IFT traceability website,www.globalfoodtraceability.org.Food safety was furtherdiscussed at the meeting duringa panel discussion on the FoodSafety and Modernization Act(FSMA) and imported food.Panelists noted that the lawaims to shift the focus of government policy from responding tofood safety issues toward proactively preventing problems,which will have a significantimpact on imported food.“There can be no distinctionbetween food made here andfood made in a foreign country,” says panelist Luis Mejia,adjunct associate professorin the Department of FoodScience and Human Nutritionat the University of Illinois.“If I am an importer, I need tomake sure I am working withcompanies or industries wherefood is compliant with all lawsin the United States.”Cory Bryant, FDA’s assistantcountry director, foods andveterinary medicine, is working in China to implementFSMA and achieve smoothfood safety processes betweenChina and the United States.Among the goals of his office arethat products meet safety andquality standards before theyenter the United States; strongFirst round of U.S.-EU TTIPtalks end, to resume Oct. 7WASHINGTON — The first round of the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between theUnited States and European Union (EU) concluded last Friday inWashington. The next round of TTIP negotiations will take placeduring the week of Oct. 7 in Brussels, Belgium.The first round of talks, which took place July 8-12, coveredmarket access for agricultural and industrial goods, governmentprocurement, investment, energy and raw materials, regulatoryissues, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, services, intellectualproperty rights, sustainable development, small- and medium-sizedenterprises, dispute settlement, competition, customs/trade facilitation and state-owned enterprises. The negotiators also met withapproximately 350 stakeholders from academia, trade unions, theprivate sector and non-governmental organizations to listen to formalTurn to TTIP, page 16 arelationships with regulatorycounterparts; and responsiblesupply chain management atthe point of manufacture, pointof export and when presentedfor importation.The key to FSMA’s success,he says, will be cooperationamong all entities involvedin food manufacturing, whichis especially important in acountry as large as China. Consumer choicesFood choices and habits wasanother topic discussed at thisweek’s IFT meeting. Researchon “stress eating” presentedduring one session found thatpeople who eat during times ofstress typically seek the foodsthey eat out of habit, regardlessof how healthy or unhealthythat food is.The research, co-authoredand presented by David Neal, apsychologist and founding partner at Empirica Research, contradicts conventional wisdomthat people who are stressedout turn to high-calorie, lownutrient comfort food.In the study Neal and hisco-authors conducted thisyear, 59 MBA students at theUniversity of California, LosAngeles, were asked duringmidterm exams which snackTurn to IFT, page 15 aConstruction tobegin on ByrneDairy plant, centerCORTLAND, N.Y. — ByrneDairy will begin construction by the end of July on anew yogurt and cheese plantand agritourism destinationat the Finger Lakes EastBusiness Park located here.Byrne Dairy reached anagreement with the CortlandCounty Industrial Development Agency to purchasea 127-acre parcel of land inOctober. 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2CHEESE MARKET NEWS — July 19, 2013MARKET INDICATORSChicago Mercantile ExchangeCHEESE FUTURES for the week ended July 18, 2013Cash prices for the week ended July 19, 2013MondayJuly 15Cheese BarrelsPriceChangeTuesdayJuly 16WednesdayJuly 17(Listings for each day by month, settling price and open interest)ThursdayJuly 18FridayJuly 19 1.6450-1/2 1.6500 1/2 1.6800 3 1.6900 1 1.7400 5Cheese 40-lb. blockPrice 1.6750ChangeNC 1.6750NC 1.6925 1 3/4 1.7000 3/4 1.7475 4 3/4Weekly average (July 15-19): Barrels: 1.6810( .0190); 40-lb. Blocks: 1.6980( .0260).Weekly ave. one year ago (July 16-20, 2012): Barrels: 1.7025; 40-lb. Blocks: 1.7160.Extra Grade NDMPriceChange 1.7250NC 1.7300 1/2 1.7300NC 1.7300NC 1.7300NCGrade A NDMPriceChange 1.7500NC 1.7525 1/4 1.7550 1/4 1.7550NC 1.7750 2Fri., July 12JUL13AUG13SEP13OCT13NOV13DEC13JAN 14FEB 14MAR 14APR 14MAY 14JUN 14JUL 14AUG 14SEP 14OCT 14NOV 14DEC 18389419281841421219979101322724223222Mon., July .7581.7701.7901.7901.7901.7901.7901.790Total Contracts Traded/103/6,325Open Interest79/6,368Tues., July .7581.7701.7901.7901.7901.7901.7901.790Wed., July .7581.7701.7901.7901.7901.7901.7901.790Thurs., July .7911.7911.791Daily market prices are available by visiting CME’s online statistics sites at http://www.cmegroup.com.Weekly average (July 15-19): Extra Grade: 1.7290( .0130); Grade A: 1.7575( .0140).Grade AA ButterPriceChange 1.4800 2 1.4900 3/4 1.4825NC 1.4825 1/4DRY WHEY FUTURES for the week ended July 18, 2013* 1.4900NCFri., July 12Weekly average (July 15-19): Grade AA: 1.4850(-.0185)Class II Cream (Major Northeast Cities): 1.9546(-.0044)– 2.1049(-.0349).Sign up for our daily fax or e-mail service for just 104 a year. Call us at 608-288-9090.Weekly Cold Storage HoldingsButterCheese(Listings for each day by month, settling price and open interest)On handMondayWeekChange19,574115,840 296-3,246July 15, 2013Change since July 1PoundsPercent 1,228-965 7-1Last YearPoundsChange12,055133,313 7,519-17,473(These data, which include government stocks and are reported in thousands of pounds, are based on reports froma limited sample of cold storage centers across the country. 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Sales to CCC: 0 lbs.WHOLE MILK POWDER (National):STAFFREGULAR CONTRIBUTORSTues., July 16Dry Products*(Dollars per hundredweight, 3.5% butterfat test)YEAR JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV .0043.0043.0043.00Daily market prices are available by visiting CME’s online statistics sites at http://www.cmegroup.com.*Total Contracts Traded/Open Interest reflect additional months not included in this chart.CLASS III PRICE2007200820092010201120122013Mon., July 15 1.8100- 1.9500.EDIBLE LACTOSE(FOB)Central and West: .5000( 1 1/2)- .7000( 1); mostly .5850( 1/2)- .6800.DRY WHEYCentral:West:(FOB) Northeast:nonhygroscopic .4700- .6350( 1);mostly .5200- .5700.nonhygroscopic .5650- .6150;mostly .5700(-1/2)- .6125( 1/4).extra grade/grade A .5600( 1 1/2)- .6325( 1).ANIMAL FEED (Central): Whey spray milk replacer .4075- .5400.WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (34 percent): 1.3200- 1.4925;mostly 1.3350( 1/4)- 1.3700.DRY BUTTERMILK(FOB)Central & East: 1.5100- 1.6400.(FOB) West: 1.5800- 1.6350( 1/2); mostly 1.6000( 1)- 1.6200( 1).CASEIN:Rennet 4.6000- 5.0000; Acid 4.7000- 5.4000.*Source: USDA’s Dairy Market NewsDISCLAIMER: Cheese Market News has made every effort to provide accurate current as well as historical market information. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy of these data and do not assume liability for errors or omissions.Reprinted with permission from the July 19, 2013, edition of CHEESE MARKET NEWS Copyright 2013 Quarne Publishing LLC; PH: (509) 962-4026; www.cheesemarketnews.com
July 19, 2013 — CHEESE MARKET NEWS 3MARKET INDICATORSRETAIL PRICES(Consumer Price Index*) Percent change versus1 mo. 6 mo. 1 year 2 yearsJune 2013Cheese & related products 1.5-1.6219.257-0.5-1.9Dairy & related products 1.8-0.1216.062-1.5 0.3All Food 4.1 0.1 0.6 1.4236.792*Source: U.S. Department of Commerce. For index, prices during 1982-84 100.Advanced Prices and Pricing FactorsBase Skim Milk Price for Class I1:Advanced Class III Skim Milk Pricing Factor:Advanced Class IV Skim Milk Pricing Factor:Advanced Butterfat Pricing Factor2:Class II Skim Milk Price:Class II Nonfat Solids Price:Two-week Product Price Averages:Butter:Nonfat Dry Milk:Cheese:Dry Whey:August 2013 13.77/cwt. 12.26/cwt. 13.77/cwt. 1.5969/lb. 14.47/cwt. 1.6078/lb.July 2013 13.50/cwt. 12.56/cwt. 13.50/cwt. 1.6803/lb. 14.20/cwt. 1.5778/lb. 1.4902/lb. 1.7131/lb. 1.7201/lb. 0.5769/lb. 1.5590/lb. 1.6826/lb. 1.7806/lb. 0.5710/lbNote: The Class I price equals the Class I skim milk price times 0.965 plus theClass I butterfat price times 3.5, rounded to the nearest cent.For information only: The Class I base price is 18.88.1/ Higher of advanced Class III or IV skim milk pricing factors. The Class I skim milk price equalsthis price plus applicable Class I differential.2/ The Class I butterfat price equals the price plus applicable Class I differential divided by 100.Data provided by USDAInternational Dairy MarketsJuly 19, 2013Western EuropeButter: 82 percent butterfat 5,250( 50)- 5,575(-50).Butteroil: 99 percent butterfat 6,000- 6,600.Skim Milk Powder: 1.25 percent butterfat 4,000- 4,250.Whole Milk Powder: 26 percent butterfat 4,450- 4,925( 25).Whey Powder: Nonhygroscopic 1,275- 1,500.For more information please visit www.devilletechnologies.comCME FUTURES for the week ended July 18, 2013Class III MilkFri., July 12JUL13AUG13SEP13OCT13NOV13DEC13JAN14FEB14MAR14APR 14MAY 14JUN 14JUL 14AUG 14SEP 14OCT 14NOV 14DEC 11Total Contracts Traded/Open Interest 746/21,061Mon., July 11597/21,126Tues., July 12Wed., July 141,447/21,470Thurs., July 12763/21,754773/21,860Wed., July 17Thurs., July 18Class IV MilkFri., July 12OceaniaButter: 82 percent butterfat 3,700( 25)- 4,600( 100).Cheddar Cheese: 39 percent maximum moisture 4,150( 150)- 4,600.Skim Milk Powder: 1.25 percent butterfat 4,200- 4,900( 150).Whole Milk Powder: 26 percent butterfat 4,450( 50)- 5,375( 75).Source: Dairy Market News. Prices reported in U.S. dollars per metric ton, F.O.B. port. To convertto price per pound: divide price by 2,204.6 pounds.JUL13AUG13SEP13OCT13NOV13DEC13JAN 14FEB 14MAR 482459356271270745959Mon., July 482459356271270756259Total Contracts Traded/8/2,452Open Interest4/2,456Fri., July 12Mon., July 15Tues., July 7838829228699756697/2,57820/2,593Wed., July 17Thurs., July 18Cash-Settled NDMNational Dairy Products Sales ReportFor the week ended:Cheese 40-lb. Blocks:Average price1Sales volume2Cheese 500-lb. Barrels:Average price1Adj. price to 38% moistureSales volume2Moisture contentButter:Average price1Sales volume2Nonfat Dry Milk:Average price1Sales volume2Dry Whey:Average price1Sales volume2*7/13/137/6/136/29/136/22/13 1.7065* 1.721911,666,354 *11,315,029 1.746611,746,162 1.75029,937,579 1.7732 1.686410,508,08134.81* 1.7974* 1.7108*8,664,55234.86 1.8733 1.78309,324,21534.86 1.8815 1.79639,377,76235.06 1.51824,541,887 1.46485,024,471 1.51093,469,666 1.55013,339,732 1.718918,946,768* 1.705514,573,488* 1.697121,536,246* 1.687421,314,819 0.57359,032,066* 0.5821*5,962,248 0.57179,471,982 0.5822*8,457,919/Revised. 1/Prices weighted by volumes reported. 2/Sales as reported by participating manufacturers.Reported in pounds. More information is available by calling AMS at 202-720-4392.JUL 13AUG 13SEP 13OCT13NOV 13DEC 13JAN 14FEB 14MAR .75165.28160.00155.70155.23153.73Total Contracts Traded/0/1,415Open Interest29029625621122111022105Tues., July /1,45337/1,475Tues., July 16Wed., July 17Thurs., July 189501,0691,0079861,089568272217128412148.35 951155.00 1,070161.75 1,002161.75 994162.38 1,092157.50 60.001161.002149.40 951156.00 1,068161.25 1,010162.05 995162.00 1,092157.50 160.002161.00112/5,76274/5,77447/5,781Cash-Settled ButterFri., July 12JUL13AUG13SEP13OCT13NOV13DEC13JAN 14FEB 14MAR14APR14MAY14JUN14JUL14OCT 1,08256122231511541----Total Contracts Traded/Open Interest 154/5,653Mon., July 00160.00161.00Daily market prices are available by visiting CME’s online statistics sites at http://www.cmegroup.com.DISCLAIMER: Cheese Market News has made every effort to provide accurate current as well as historical market information. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy of these data and do not assume liability for errors or omissions.Reprinted with permission from the July 19, 2013, edition of CHEESE MARKET NEWS Copyright 2013 Quarne Publishing LLC; PH: (509) 962-4026; www.cheesemarketnews.com
4CHEESE MARKET NEWS — July 19, 2013GUEST COLUMNISTPerspective:Industry IssuesBill Brooks is chief dairy economistwith INTL FCStone, Chicago. He isa guest columnist for this week’sCheese Market News .Farm bill uncertaintyRecently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the farmbill, which strips out the SupplementalNutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),also known as the food stamp program.In years past, the marriage of agriculture and nutrition in the farm billwould guarantee the passage of a new5-year plan by bringing urban and rurallegislators together to vote on a bill thathad something in it for both sectors andRepublicans and Democrats.With last year’s debate, the Tea Partyemerged, which thought that there wastoo much spending on both agricultureand nutrition programs. Last year, boththe House and Senate ended up passing an extension of the previous 5-yearbill, primarily because they could notget anything passed in an election year.This year, the thinking has been that anew bill needs to be enacted to providecertainty to the agricultural community.Earlier this year, the Senate passedessentially the same bill it passed lastyear, which was similar to the HouseAgriculture Committee’s markup of theHouse bill. That version did not passmuster with a large contingent in theHouse, which supports less spendingCMN Exclusive!and government intervention. When thebill was put to a vote in the full House, itwas defeated by a coalition of legislatorson both the extreme left and right sidesof the political spectrum. To musterapproval for the programs covered bythe farm bill, House leadership decidedto split the agricultural provisions fromthe nutrition programs. Many on bothsides of the aisle opposed this idea, butit was probably the only way to garnerenough Republican votes to pass anytype of farm bill. House leadership hasindicated that the nutrition portion ofthe farm bill will be brought up soon,but another knockdown, drag-out fightover funding levels is sure to ensue.Currently, passage of the House billhas no impact on programs. With theSenate version covering both agriculture and nutrition and the House versioncovering only agriculture, the possibilitythat a conference committee could hashout the differences seems very unlikely.The big issue is the agriculturalportion of the farm bill. The nutritionportion is part of permanent legislationand will continue after Sept. 30 just likeit is now. Most of the crop insuranceissues won’t occur until next spring,although some wheat producers mightargue with the time line.For dairy, the main issue is theDairy Product Price Support Program(DPPSP) and the Milk Income LossContract (MILC) program. The MILCprogram will expire at the end of September without action by Congress. TheDPPSP will continue under permanentlaw, but would revert back to the originalrules that incorporate parity pricing,which could dramatically increasedairy commodity prices at some pointin 2014. It is not a given, though, thatdairy commodity prices would move tothe new support levels because dairycommodity manufacturers are notrequired to sell to USDA’s CommodityCredit Corp. at the new support levels,but dairy product prices would probablyeventually catch up to the new paritybased milk support price.If the bills do get to the conferencecommittee stage, there will have tobe some agreement on which versionof the dairy program to implement.Until the committee is formed and themembers announced, it is very difficultto determine which dairy provisions,the Dairy Security Act, which is part ofthe Senate bill, or the Dairy FreedomAct, which is part of the House bill, willbecome law of the land.What if Congress does not arrive atsome agreement? We’ll see a repeatof last year’s “dairy cliff,” which generated a fair amount of press. CMNThe views expressed by CMN’s guestcolumnists are their own opinionsand do not necessarily reflect those ofCheese Market News .NEWS/BUSINESSDuPont launches production at new probiotic blending and packaging facility in BeijingBEIJING — DuPont has launched production at its state-of-the-art probioticblending and packaging facility in China. The new site in Beijing representsDuPont Nutrition & Health’s first stepin packaging probiotics into ready-tomarket formats that allow DuPont tooffer its customers improved speed tomarket, quality and flexibility. Investment and capacity were not disclosed.In 2011, DuPont purchased a foodprocessing plant north of Beijing andconverted it into a new probiotic blending and packaging site to serve dietarysupplement and food and beverage customers globally, and more specifically,China and the Asia Pacific region. Theinvestment is part of a global multi-yearcapacity expansion program for culturesand probiotics in the United States,Europe and now in China, the companysays. (See “Danisco expands cultureproduction in China” in the Dec. 23,2011, issue of Cheese Market News.)“Probiotics is a fast-growing segment of our business, and the industryis experiencing double-digit growthrates annually around the world and inChina,” says Fabienne Saadane-Oaks,vice president of Health and Protection, DuPont Nutrition & Health. “As wecontinue to support the world’s growingpopulation, this expansion allows us tocustom blend and package high-qualityprobiotic products for our customers inthe fast-growing dietary supplementand food and beverage industries closeto our customers, where we want to be.”The new facility will allow customers to source ready-to-marketprobiotic formulations consisting ofDanisco HOWARU premium and FloraFIT custom probiotic brands. In addition, by DuPont managing the processthroughout, customers will be assuredof the highest standard of food safetyand quality, the company says.“This expansion is a further reinforcement of the DuPont long-standingcommitment to China, our customersand consumers, says Tony Su, president,DuPont Greater China. “We are in actionto help address some major challengesfacing the world — among those is theneed for nutritious and quality foodresulting from population growth andurbanization.”The probiotic formulations offerunique improvements for digestive andimmune health and other well-beingbenefits for the dietary supplement,dairy and beverage markets, DuPontsays. Probiotic cultures will be sourcedfrom the company’s North Americanand European sites. The new facility inChina will be able to custom blend theingredients to meet the requirementsof local customers. China already isa significant market for the YO-MIXdairy cultures from the DuPont Daniscorange, the company notes.According to industry estimates, in2012 the market for probiotics globallytotaled more than 32 billion. That totalis expected to increase to 45 billionby 2018. More than 90 percent of thetotal is attributed to food, beverage anddietary supplements, DuPont says. CMNKroger to acquire Harris Teeter chain for 2.5BCINCINNATI — The Kroger Co. recently announced it will purchase HarrisTeeter Supermarkets Inc.’s chain of 212retail locations for 2.5 billion.“We are excited to welcome HarrisTeeter to the Kroger family,” says David Dillon, chairman and CEO, Kroger.“This is a financially and strategicallycompelling transaction and a uniqueopportunity for our shareholders andassociates. We look forward to bringingtogether the best of Kroger and HarrisTeeter while continuing to operate andgrow the Harris Teeter brands. Together,we can continue to deepen our connections with customers across all
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The majority of literature relating to food traceability focuses on using instruments and potential advantages of adopting a traceability system. There is a paucity of research related to the traceability of food served within a cruise ships' foodservice operations. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore food safety traceability
food supply chain traceability (e.g. Chen et al., 2008; Kelepouris, 2007; Peets et al., 2009). However, a recent review of food traceability trends and advances by Badia-Melis et al. (2015) suggests that current traceability systems in practice do not capture, link and share the food traceability data accurately and effectively. Notwithstanding the
introduction to RFID technology, overview the concept of traceability, and present several typical RFID traceability applications as powerful motivations for our work. In Sect. 3, we introduce a generic reference framework for traceability networks and examine fundamental traceability queries. In Sect. 4, we identify a set of essential
A programming manual is also available for each Arm Cortex version and can be used for MPU (memory protection unit) description: STM32 Cortex -M33 MCUs programming manual (PM0264) STM32F7 Series and STM32H7 Series Cortex -M7 processor programming manual (PM0253) STM32 Cortex -M4 MCUs and MPUs programming manual (PM0214)
