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The POM Group of Mississauga Ontario has announced the release of a new line of fresh pomegranate arils, under the Royal brand.

The 2019 United Fresh Washington Conference will feature several new elements on its agenda.

Pacific Organic Produce, San Francisco, has hired Gerry Chua, Manuel Pinon and Tina Barnes to it sales and grower relations teams.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has expanded quarantined areas for citrus greening in California, Texas and Louisiana after the disease was detected in plant tissue samples in multiple locations in the states.

Progressive Produce, Los Angeles, has hired Dominic DeFranco as vice president of sales.

The STARR of this dish is the Starr Ranch® Organic Gala Apple, and it’s a show-stopper – as is this beautiful parfait!

“There is nothing new under the sun,” the writer of Ecclesiastes says.

A Food and Drug Administration program that tested numerous romaine samples from Yuma, Ariz., found just one E. coli sample, which was non-pathogenic.

The Packer’s Tom Karst visits with Joel Nelsen, strategic advisor for California Citrus Mutual, about citrus issues in an Aug. 21 interview.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved surety bonds from two businesses to satisfy Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act sanctions.