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China Supply and Marketing Agricultural Production Wholesale Market Holding Co. Ltd., one of China’s leading wholesale food providers, has pledged to source seafood from Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified farms, processing plants, hatcheries and feed mills as part of an agreement that the Beijing-based company signed with the Global ...
Ltd. has committed to sourcing seafood from Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified farms and processing plants, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (now the Global Seafood Alliance) announced in mid-August. ...
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification program and traceability companies Wholechain and Legit Fish are developing real-time digital solutions to strengthen BAP’s visibility into producer supply chains. In collaboration with global seafood suppliers Thai Union and Devi Seafoods, BAP is working to enable ...
UMITRON PTE. LTD. (Location: Singapore, Co-founder/ Managing director Masahiko Yamada, hereinafter UMITRON) recently launched ‘UMI to SACHI’, an initiative advocating for consumers to be more emotionally in touch with the way seafood is produced and to encourage them to be more involved in the future of our oceans. In doing so, Umitron hopes to leverage technology to help farms not ...
A blue economy strategy represents an opportunity to embrace Canada’s fish and seafood sector. Through visionary and aspirational targets, we can unleash our innovative potential to produce the best and highest quality seafood in the world. “With world-leading seafood production and a talented workforce ...
Publix Super Markets, one of the largest grocery chains in the United States, recently revamped labeling that calls out its sustainable fresh and frozen seafood products. The Lakeland, Florida-based operator of around 1,270 stores is also undertaking a reverse audits certification program. ...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that 6 out of the 75 (8.0%) total seafood entry line refusals were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. ...
Sprouts.com “Goes Green” with Healthy Living Tips From shopping organic and bulk foods, to fair trade and sustainable seafood products, there are many ways to shop at Sprouts that are also friendly to our earth. ...
Others point out that intensifying aquaculture production results in fewer resources used per metric ton of production output (Bosma & Verdegem, 2011; Boyd et al., 2017; Boyd, McNevin, Davis, Godumala, & Mohan, 2018). ...
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is seeking research grant funding applications for projects to support an environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture industry in the U.S. and generate new science-based information and innovation to address industry constraints. Although U.S. aquaculture production has shown growth in the past decade, ...
Learn more about seafood safety and the 2016 economic outlook for the aquaculture, or fish farming, industry during the Ohio Aquaculture Association Annual Conference Jan. 29-30. ...
He added, “Recent economic studies have shown that securing the health of the deep-sea fishery has prevented the loss of up to 12,000 jobs within the fishing industry and growing demand (particularly in northern Europe) for certified sustainable seafood products has resulted in the expansion of export markets worth almost 200 million dollars”. ...
Peter Hospital in Olympia, WA, has announced that it is the first hospital in the Providence Health Care System, and the second hospital in North America, to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody certification for sustainable, wild-caught seafood. MSC certification ensures that seafood products bearing the blue MSC ecolabel ...
Aquaculture, the controlled production of seafood, ornamental fish and other aquatic life, is big business in Florida. ...
They also say that fishing wastewater could be included as an additional category in life-cycle assessments of seafood production. ...
The initiative is a formal collaboration to address agricultural law issues that impact food, fiber and energy production, said Hall, who is also an assistant professor for OSU Extension. ...
(Tassal), has earned certification to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) standard, the most rigorous environmental and social sustainability certification program for farmed seafood products. SCS Global Services (SCS), a globally recognized certification body, certified one of Tassal’s major salmon farming sites, Macquarie Harbour, to the ASC ...
Increased assurance and value "This is an important test for the MSC," explains MSC product integrity manager, Alison Roel, "because it provides consumers and MSC stakeholders with added assurance that MSC-labelled seafood has been correctly labelled. ...
From now on, cod (Gadus morhua) caught by Agarba can bear the MSC blue fish ecolabel, helping consumers to make responsible and sustainable decisions when buying seafood products. The certification was awarded after a full evaluation carried out by an independently accredited certifier, Food Certification International, through a participative process that was ...
Launched on 4 November, MSC Germany’s sustainable seafood week campaign for 2013 is called “In black and white – True facts from the world of sustainable fishing”. From 4 to 8 November 2013, 500 MSC-certified foodservice sites throughout Germany will be raising awareness of their MSC-labelled seafood products and telling ...