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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is removing seven voluntary U.S. grade standards and one consumer standard for fresh fruits and vegetables from the Code of Federal Regulations.

Apple Acres LLC, Lafayette, N.Y., has opened a 60,000-square-foot packing facility, in time for the new apple crop, with harvest starting this month.

Bosch is selling its Waiblingen, Germany-based packaging machinery business, which includes equipment used to package fresh produce, to Luxemburg-based CVC Capital Partners.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Apple Association’s 2019 Crop Outlook and Marketing Conference in Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative complaint against The Fruit Club, Sioux Falls, S.D., for violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte Fresh Produce will showcase Del Monte’s new film-sealed fruit cups at the July 26-27 Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference and Expo in Monterey, Calif.

Billed as the Erin Brockovich of food, Robyn O’Brien delivered a keynote address at the 2019 Organic Produce Summit that recalled Brockovich’s reforming passion.

Industry veteran Steve Lutz plans to leave the Produce Marketing Association Aug. 2 to start his own marketing and communications company.

Monterey Mushrooms, Watsonville, Calif., has hired Ryan Meyer as sales finance manager.

The following article from The Packer’s “A Century of Produce,” was published in 1993. Robert Kasmire writes of the positive impacts made in the produce industry from the development of temperature control.