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The Maryland Department of Health is advising consumers to not eat Ready Pac Bistro Bowl Chicken Caesar Salads with specific lot numbers, after seven cases of E. coli were reported in the state.
Fowler Fruit Growers Cooperative, Kings Produce Ltd., KP Distribution LLC, Rodichoks Farm and Savidge Farms are new firms to the Market. Ben E Keith Mid-South Division, Chula Fresh Farms LLC and other have updates.
Sun Automation Group, Glen Arm, Md., has promoted Frank Reynolds to director of sales.
Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers has plenty of options for retailers looking to promote Honeycrisp apples.
Plant-based meals are increasingly popular, and San Francisco-based Side Delights is offering shoppers ideas for festive pairing with potato dishes.
The 2019 Tour de Fresh broke fundraising records for the event, with more than $180,000 raised to purchase 51 salad bars.
Apeel Sciences, Santa Barbara, Calif., is opening offices in Mexico, the Netherlands and Peru.
With Food and Drug Administration inspections coming in 2020, a United Fresh Produce Association seminar set for Jan. 30-31 will help importers prepare for Foreign Supplier Verification Program compliance.
The Center for Produce Safety is funding its first research project to study the effectiveness of water treatments used for irrigation and other uses in agriculture.
The corrugated packaging industry has chosen America Recycles Day to shine a light on a recovery rate of 96% in 2018.
Harvest Sensations, Miami, has a partnership with Best Buddies International, a non-profit organization enhancing the lives of people with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD).
Robinson Fresh is taking the guesswork out of choosing avocados that will be ripe throughout the week with a four-pack of fruit at different stages of ripeness.
Another mandated increase in H-2A guest farmworker wage rates has made Congressional action on farm labor reform even more critical, according to the Agriculture Workforce Coalition.
In part because of that struggle, Escobar and two of her colleagues in the industry launched the first worldwide networking event for women in fresh produce at Fruit Logistica in February 2019.
This once rough-around-the-edges industry was, for centuries, a man’s world. It would take a particularly tenacious individual to change the status quo.
The 2020 Beyond Organic Forum, which focuses on small-scale farming, is Jan. 22 in Wilmot, Ohio.
The Texas International Produce Association, Mission, and other groups are sponsoring a meeting on inspections of Mexican tomatoes under the Tomato Suspension Agreement.
FiveStar Gourmet Foods, Ontario, Calif., has recalled two snack products because they contain hard-boiled eggs from a company involved in a listeria outbreak.
Previous posts in Fresh Talk have looked at top stories from January through August, this post will consider the top stories published by The Packer in September.
J&J Distributing, St. Paul, Minn., is recalling a small amount of salad products because they contain an undeclared allergen, pine nuts.
Food Logistics has named compliance and risk management software TraQtion to its 2019 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list for the fourth year in a row.
Global shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is using logistics and digital supply chain solutions from Blume Global for all motor carrier partners.
Produce companies and grocery retailers continued to look for more ways to reduce food waste in 2019 as federal government agencies announced a major initiative around that same goal.
LENEXA, Kan. — The U.S. apple supply is plentiful and business is good as the new year begins, though Jim Allen says the abundance of varieties offered to retailers does present challenges.
G W Palmer & Co Inc., Geissler’s Supermarkets Inc., and Picasso Restaurant Group are new companies to the Market. Cebulak Family Farms, Dell’s Cherries LLC, Prairie Gold Produce Ltd. and other have updates.
For the first time in years, two weather events have created a significant challenge to marketers of potatoes over the winter and spring months.
Two Meijer stores in Grand Rapids, Mich., have recalled diced hard-boiled eggs salad bars because they were supplied by a company whose eggs are linked to Listeria monocytogenes outbreak.
Citrus fruits are trending on the Produce Market Guide. Among them are pumello, oranges and clementines.
FreshPoint Charlotte Inc. and Home Again Inc. have been Endorsed. Geissler’s Supermarkets Inc. have two more stores added to the Market. Coast To Coast Produce LLC, Kaiser Pickles LLC and others have updates.
The U.S. and China will sign what is being called a “phase one” trade deal by mid-January.