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    • End Flap

    End Flap gives the views of senior editor Pan Demetrakakes on manufacturing and operational issues in the food and beverage industry, both trending and long-standing.

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    A Farewell to Food

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    Dec. 21, 2022
    An editor on the brink of retirement looks back at 30 years of covering the food & beverage industry.
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    China, Chocolate and Easy Targets

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    Nov. 29, 2022
    Helping the Uyghurs should not preclude helping the child cocoa slaves of Africa.
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    End Flap: How Food Processors Can Spend Their Post-Pandemic Profits

    Aug. 24, 2022
    Senior Editor Pan Demetrakakes offers some unsolicited advice on how a prospering industry should spend its profits.
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    End Flap: To Fix Food Safety, Fix the FDA First

    July 27, 2022
    A dysfunctional structure inhibits the agency’s ability to deal with vital issues.
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    End Flap: Which Will Consumers Buy: Fair Wage Labor or Cheap Food?

    June 24, 2022
    A system that’s built in large part on underpaying those who grow and process the food is not a sustainable system.
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    End Flap: Let’s Worry About the Real Danger

    May 23, 2022
    Don’t let food processing plant fire conspiracy nonsense distract from ongoing worker safety issues.
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    End Flap: Social Justice and the Money River

    April 29, 2022
    The backlash to environmental, social and governance initiatives may bring its own backlash.
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    Trust, but Verify

    May 31, 2021
    In his End Flap column, Senior Editor Pan Demetrakakes discusses Why bad food and beverage industry actors need good regulators.
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    There Really Ought To Be A Law About Some Food Industry Practices

    April 27, 2021
    In his End Flap column, Senior Editor Pan Demetrakakes talks more in-depth about why certain food industry practices should be illegal.
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    In Business We Trust

    March 1, 2021
    People tend to trust businesses, especially their own employers. That brings a lot of opportunity, but also a lot of responsibility.
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    How Sugar and Beef Helped Shape American Antitrust Laws

    Feb. 25, 2021
    Learn how two legal cases helped shape the history of antitrust laws in the United States.