Coronavirus Pandemic Disrupting Dietary Ingredient Supply Chain? USDA Wants To Know
Executive Summary
'We've got be sure that companies can continue to get ingredients for their products," says CRN CEO Steve Mister, Concern supplies from India, which is a week into a a three-week nationwide lockdown, and other potential supply chain problems were noted by CRN members in a survey it conducted to help USDA gauge global food and nutrition ingredient supply chains during the pandemic.
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