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The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 15 plans to start inspections of high-risk food facilities, which include leafy green processing plants, using mostly unpaid furloughed employees.

General attendee registration is open for the fourth annual Organic Produce Summit.

Shoppable recipes, digital rebates and in-store point-of-sale materials are among the elements of the Avocados From Mexico campaign leading up to the Super Bowl.

You could say “Everything is Awesome!” about Chiquita’s new tie-in with The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.

Fyffes started a program in Honduras in 2016 that distributes school supplies to farm workers’ children, giving incentives for academic growth.

AUSTIN, Texas — With a focus on local and regional food procurement, Local Crate Meals is expanding distribution of its fresh and seasonal meal kits, the founder and CEO told the audience at the Potato Expo 2019.

Although some media are reporting of a possible shortage of avocados for Super Bowl festivities because of a fuel shortage in Mexico, importers say there’s no indication supplies are being affected.

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

Chilean grape production started slowly but picked up steadily this year.

Mexican avocado shipments will be crossing into the U.S. in earnest Nov. 17, after a late-October growers strike all but dried up the supply chain to retailers and foodservice operators in the U.S.