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Tour de Fresh chooses school districts to get salad bars

Mar 14, 2019 by Amy Sowder

The Tour de Fresh cycling fundraiser for school salads bars has chosen 12 districts to receive 45 salad bars from this year’s event.

Salad ingredient promoters come together with I Heart Salad

Feb 27, 2019 by Chris Koger

Fresh Express, NatureSweet and Litehouse — three companies representing salad ingredients — are joining for a retail promotion to highlight how consumers can combine them for salad creations.

BrightFarms expands nationally with new greenhouses in three states

Feb 25, 2019 by Amy Sowder

Salad greens grower BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., will add three greenhouse farms in Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, breaking ground in each location by the end of 2019 to start production in spring 2020.

Eat Smart Sweet Kale bagged salads recalled in Canada

Feb 18, 2019 by Ashley Nickle

Canadian Food Inspection Agency test results have triggered the recall of certain Eat Smart Sweet Kale bagged salads due to potential listeria contamination.

Satur Farms recalls spinach, mesclun over salmonella concerns

Jan 24, 2019 by Chris Koger

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

Dole expands its salad kits line

Jan 16, 2019 by Tom Burfield

Dole Food Co., Westlake Village, Calif., expanded its salad kit line in 2018, said Bil Goldfield, director of corporate communications.

Apio changes name to Curation Foods

Jan 11, 2019 by Ashley Nickle

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Landec Corp. has changed the name of subsidiary Apio — “celery” in Spanish — to Curation Foods.

Bonduelle launches single-serve salad line in Canada

Dec 13, 2018 by Chris Koger

Bonduelle Fresh Americas, formerly Ready Pac Foods, is launching Bonduelle Fresh Picked salads in Canada.

Kale salads recalled in Canada for listeria

Dec 05, 2018 by Chris Koger

Apio Inc., Guadalupe, Calif., is recalling Eat Smart brand Salad Shake Ups — Sweet Kale salads from Canadian retailers for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

Mann’s Organic Super Blend takes off

Nov 14, 2018 by Jim Offner

Salinas, Calif.-based Mann Packing Co. says one of its newest items, the Organic Super Blend, had a successful launch in 2018.