The scope of entities covered by FSMA 204 is extensive, encompassing not only food retailers but also facilities involved in the processing, packing and storing of food.
Protein companies, including Tyson Foods, Inc., Hormel Foods Corp., and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., who export to Asia, may be impacted adversely, as could Latin American protein companies such as JBS, Marfrig and Minerva Foods.
Founded in 1903, EFCO develops and distributes savory sauces, bakery fillings, bakery mixes, bakery concentrates, beverage bases and syrups, sauces and spreads, fruit toppings and specialty toppings.
In the case, Flowers Foods contends that arbitration agreements signed by two of its independent distributors are binding while the distributors claim that a provision in the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act makes the arbitration agreement unenforceable.
Martin Otto, board member and former chief operating officer of H-E-B, will join Daymond John, founder of FUBU and star of the television show “Shark Tank," to keynote SNX 2024.