FAO Releases New Publication: Blockchain Application in Seafood Value Chains

This publication establishes chain traceability as the substrate over which digital solutions need to operate. It provides a comprehensive introduction to blockchain, and covers smart contracts, explores how they relate to blockchain with an example of their use in seafood value chains, and then examines major development and operational considerations for blockchain applications.

How the Massachusetts Seafood Industry Has Adapted to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Foley Fish is a New Bedford-based, fourth-generation, family-run seafood processor (another location in Boston is temporarily closed), supplying restaurants and hotels like Celeste, Puritan & Co., Stockyard, and Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton with fresh seafood. Like restaurants they once sold fish to, seafood dealers are beginning to swing in an effort to keep their business afloat. And the future, many have decided, is frozen.

U.S. Beef Output May Take Months to Recover, National Says

American meat lovers probably will continue to pay higher-than-normal prices for beef as measures to mitigate the coronavirus risk keep U.S. plants below capacity for months.

Federal Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Tyson Foods After Employee COVID-19 Death

May 20, 2020 VB Attorneys

An employee of Tyson Foods stationed at the company’s meat processing plant in Amarillo, Texas suffered a work-related injury, contracted COVID-19, and died. The family is represented by the VB Attorneys law firm based in Houston, Texas.

Doctors Petition USDA to Warn Consumers About Potential Presence of SARS-CoV-2 on Meat and Poultry Products

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine—a nonprofit with more than 12,000 doctor members—has filed an Emergency Petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture requiring that slaughterhouses test meat and poultry for SARS-CoV-2 prior to making it available for sale and requiring groceries to warn consumers of the potential presence of SARS-CoV-2 on meat and poultry products.