Madelyn Kearns is the Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Before diving into seafood writing, editing, and infographic-designing, she was the associate editor for an online publication geared toward small to mid-sized practice physicians, Medical Practice Insider. Maddie is a graduate of the University of Maine, where she served as a columnist and the opinion editor for the university's paper, The Maine Campus, and won a Grady Award in Creative Writing for her poetry.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in partnership with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), has released a food safety checklist for human and animal food operations to heed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The checklist is meant to be used as an assessment tool as pandemic conditions persist, and can be especially pertinent for operations re-starting after a recent shutdown.
“Some or all of this checklist may
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Nieuwpoort, Belgium-based MARELEC is launching virtual showrooms featuring the firm’s next generation food processing solutions in an effort to continue engaging protein suppliers from afar.
The company, which develops portion-cutters, graders, industrial weighing, marine, flow scales, and production management software, said the showroom allows “customers and prospects to visit a factory in full operation, equipped with only MARELEC
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A new reusable plastic container (RPC) solution optimized for shipping perishables has been launched by Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.-based developer Tosca, according to a 31 August announcement from the firm.
The solution caters to fresh kitchens as well as the quickly expanding grab-and-go prepared foods and in-store meal kits segments. Tosca, which has been innovating reusable supply chain solutions for 60 years, said its Fresh Kitchens RPC is
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In its third annual report, SeaChoice said it “found little to celebrate” in terms of the progress being made by major Canadian retailers’ in the pursuit of their sustainable seafood commitments.
Canada’s leading retailers made just a 3.3 percent improvement across all 21 key performance indicators from August 2019 to July 2020, the report found. According to SeaChoice, the impacts of COVID-19 were
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A letter of intent has been signed by Iceland Seafood to acquire issued capital shares of Irish seafood processing company Carrs & Sons Seafood Limited Ltd., the firm announced on 28
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A research team has successfully replaced fish oil with Veramaris’ natural marine algal oil in feed for farm-raised kampachi, also known as Hawaiian yellowtail.
Blind taste tests revealed that, when weaned on feed containing the cost-effective, fish-free algal oil, kampachi had “a more desirable taste compared to fish fed on a standard diet,” Veramaris noted in a press release.
The alternative feed was trialed over the course
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Bluegrove, a Norway-based aquatech firm formed in June between CageEye and fish farming equipment maker NorseAqua, has acquired SEALAB in a strategic merger that will see both companies combining their sensor innovations and creating an open platform for integration with other suppliers …
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Seafood production could see as much as a 75 percent leap over the next three decades if certain policy reforms and technological improvements are put in place, according to research conducted by Oregon State University (OSU) in collaboration with a bevy of international scientists.
By 2050, the earth’s human population is expected to reach 9.8 billion, an increase of two billion people over the current global tally. Researchers, who
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With three commercial-scale industry trials successfully completed, Nuseed announced that its Aquaterra canola oil containing omega-3 fatty acids is a verifiable replacement for fish oil in aquaculture feed
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The U.K. Seafood Industry Alliance (UK SIA) is the latest major industry stakeholder to endorse the new traceability standards published by the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) in March of this year.
UK SIA Secretariat Mike Short said the GDST 1.0 standards offer an avenue to interoperability and increased verifiability, helping to unify the seafood community in its virtual processes.
“The U.K. Seafood Industry Alliance
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