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Organic spinach has proven to be an essential ingredient in a successful modern produce department. Here's what The Packer’s Organic Fresh Trends 2024 survey learned from produce shoppers' responses.

The company said a random sampling of its bagged spinach yielded a positive result for Listera monocytogenes.

The vertical, controlled environment agriculture greens grower says it’s doubling its retail footprint by expanding to Whole Foods Market and Gelson’s Markets California stores.

As Popeye the sailor man might agree, spinach packs quite a punch as a nutritious leafy green vegetable.

MONTEREY, Calif. — Revol Greens was flexing its capabilities to serve the foodservice market at July 28-29 International Fresh Produce Association’s Foodservice Conference.

Selections at the supermarket are sometimes based on a whim, but when you look at consumer data and track the trends, Organic Fresh Trends research shows that shoppers search for particular items in organic form.

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I remember vividly where I was on Sept. 15, 2006, when the Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory warning consumers not to eat spinach.

At its last meeting, the LGMA board voted unanimously to require its members to conduct preharvest testing of product grown in fields where elevated risk factors may be present.

A recent Wall Street Journal article titled The Airline Safety Revolution caught my eye and should be required reading for the leafy greens industry and our food safety regulators.

Updating LGMA’s required food safety practices is an involved process that seeks input from scientists, food safety experts and the public. No other entity is capable of making widespread change as quickly as we can.

Let’s face it, Bill Marler has made a lot of money telling a story in which young children are the victims, lettuce farmers are the villains and he plays the hero.

Quebec-based Vegpro International is recalling Fresh Attitude brand Baby Spinach from the marketplace due to possible salmonella contamination, according to a notice posted Nov. 26 at the CFIA website.

Monterey County’s top four most valuable crops remained unchanged from 2018 to 2019, led by leaf lettuce, which saw an increase of almost 15%, boosted by better pricing for romaine.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be requiring that leafy greens from Arizona must be from a grower involved in the state’s Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement to be imported into Canada.

Fifth Season, Pittsburgh, is partnering with National Hockey League Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux, and has a new direct-to-consumer website and service.

BrightFarms has started construction on a 280,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in Hendersonville, N.C.

Fresh fruit sales were up about 9% for the four-week period, while fresh vegetable sales were up 25%.

Whether you’re looking for organic Brussels sprouts, romaine hearts, tomatoes or just about any other vegetable this summer, supplies should be ample. 

Spinach was the second most popular item that consumers bought as organic at least some of the time, of those studied in Organic Fresh Trends 2020.

Indoor farming company Fifth Season plans to open a 60,000-square-foot vertical farm in Braddock, Pa., a former steel town near Pittsburgh.

Urban Remedy, a California-based producer and retailer of ultra-fresh, organic meals, is voluntarily recalling 76 salads and wraps that contain spinach that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Westlake Village, Calif.-based Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. is voluntarily recalling a limited number of cases of baby spinach. 

Enza Zaden welcomed more than 100 growers, shippers and seed dealers to its San Juan Bautista Research Station to highlight the company’s leafy green varieties.

It’s no longer just iceberg lettuce and blue cheese crumbles on the salad menu these days.

For the third consecutive year, shoppers in the top income bracket were about twice as likely to buy spinach as those earning less than $25,000 annually.

Whole Foods Market has recalled baby spinach in eight states,  in response to a similar action by the New York grower-shipper who supplied the spinach.

Satur Farms, Cutchogue, N.Y., is recalling baby spinach and mesclun mix over salmonella concerns.

Satur Farms, Cutchogue, N.Y., is recalling baby spinach and mesclun mix over salmonella concerns.

Bright Farms used its Fresh Summit booth to show off its locally grown leafy greens products and to share its plans for expansion.

As leafy greens growers in Arizona and California widen buffer zones between their fields and cattle operations, a web seminar seeks to inform growers about how livestock facilities are managed.

As leafy greens growers in Arizona and California widen buffer zones between their fields and cattle operations, a web seminar seeks to inform growers about how livestock facilities are managed.

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. has recalled containers of Baby Spinach with Tender Reds in five Canadian provinces due to a positive Listeria monocytogenes test, but the product could have been distributed nationally.

The 2006 North American spinach E. coli outbreak was the largest in U.S. history, causing at least 276 consumer illnesses and 3 deaths because of tainted produce.

Dole Food Co. has introduced another flavor to its line of premium salad kits, the company’s 30th salad kit overall: Spinach Miso Crunch.

Fresh Express has released four Saute Kits that feature greens and other vegetables and a flavorful sauce for a meal that’s ready in three minutes.

A number of desert growers are responding to increased consumer demand for organic produce by expanding their organic product lines.

Business updates from companies featured in The Packer's California Winter Desert Vegetables profile.

Whole Foods Market is recalling spinach orzo salad for undeclared tree nut allergens, according to the FDA website.