The Salinas, Calif.-based Mann has officially completed the final stages of its integration as the vegetable division of Fresh Del Monte Produce, Coral Gables, Fla.
Minneapolis, Minn.-based fresh-cut produce processor G.O. Fresh has hired Adam Dilley as the company’s director of sales and business development, according to a news release.
The grower whose butternut squash has been involved in recalls of fresh-cut products because of listeria concerns is working with the Food and Drug Administration to find the source.
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Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., is featuring new organic and conventional fresh-cut green beans at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.
Country Fresh has extended a fresh-cut watermelon recall to include items with grapes and fresh-cut apples, mangoes, pineapples and cantaloupe that were distributed to Walmart stores in nine states.
Sliced apple company Crunch Pak, Cashmere, Wash., has new a new product, Lunch Kitz, featuring Woody the cowboy from Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story movie franchise.
FiveStar Gourmet Foods, Ontario, Calif., is introducing a retail and school foodservice line with 12 stock-keeping units, designed to serve families and schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Albert Garnica, the vice president of agricultural operations at Taylor Farms who helped the industry define reliability and quality that made the value-added salad category possible, has died.
When history appears to repeat itself, we must ask ourselves what we can learn. Per the FDA, fresh produce has been recalled about 40 times since 2017 – mostly fresh-cut, mostly involving Listeria monocytogenes.
Fresh Del Monte Produce reported the COVID-19 pandemic dropped expected net sales of fresh, value-added and banana segments in an “unprecedented and turbulent” second quarter by an estimated $132 million.
Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., is highlighting its Clipped & Clean Green Beans and expanded fresh-cut line at the Produce Marketing Association’s Foodservice: Delivered.
Eurofins Scientific and QFresh Lab have a cooperative agreement to provide a full-service solution for food safety testing and shelf life quality for fresh-cut produce and salad kits.
JBT Corp., Chicago, is committed to helping customers achieve sustainability goals through processing equipment that increase yields, reduce waste and cut energy use.
Growers Express, which sold its fresh commodity vegetable and fresh value-added vegetable businesses to Church Brothers Farms, is moving from its longtime headquarters in Salinas, Calif., to offices in nearby Monterey.
Pero Family Farms Food Co. LLC., Delray Beach, Fla., has recalled a zucchini noodle product because it did not list egg and milk, which are classified as allergens, on the label.
Increased regulations and other issues have prompted San Miguel Produce to reduce Ventura County, Calif., acreage and partner with other growers across North America to ensure a year-round supply.
Veggie Noodle Co. LLC is recalling a ramen kit because it contains a hard-boiled egg from a company involved in a recall for a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak.