For the first time since October 2008, U.S. trade grew month over month in December, according to annual trade data released Wednesday (Feb. 10) by the Census Bureau and analyzed by WorldCity. U.S. trade in December 2009 was $18.58 billion greater than in December 2008, a solid 8.21 percent growth rate. The $244.83 billion total for the month nevertheless still fell about 7 percent shy of the December 2007 record of $262.62 billion. But to provide a sense of how remarkable 13 consecutive months of falling U.S. trade is, when… Read More
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South Florida Executives
Christine Humphrey
Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman Partner
Christine Humphrey, a partner in the Miami law firm Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman, was a panelist at the nation’s largest seafood event last month, the International Boston Seafood Show.
Humphrey, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration compliance officer, was one of the experts chosen to serve on a panel entitled “Changes in Food Safety for 2009: How Will Your Company be Affected?” Other panelists included the FDA’s director of the Division of Import Operations and Policy, Domenic Veneziano; the director of Certified Laboratories, Martin Mitchell; and Global Aquaculture Alliance President and co-founder, Dr. George Chamberlain
Food safety has been in the news recently, with several highly publicized cases, including seafood imports from China peanut butter originating in Georgia. There are more than two dozen bills in various stages of development in the U.S. Congress related to food safety programs.
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