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Sun World International LLC, Palm Desert, Calif., has added a Chilean and two Peruvian grape companies to its licensees list.

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 U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking comments until Jan. 13 on a pest risk assessment that should open the door for U.S. imports of South Korean (Republic of Korea) carrots.

Registrar Corp. has upgraded it FDA Compliance Monitor with risk evaluation tools.

The government of Kenya wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve imports of fresh thyme into the U.S.

It is SweeTango apple season again for Stemilt Growers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking comments on a proposal to allow South African citrus imports at all U.S. ports, without the current cold treatment requirement now in place.

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement with a vote of 385-41, setting up a vote in the Senate early next year.

Federal and state agencies in Arizona and Texas are gearing up for the start of mandatory U.S. inspections of Mexican tomatoes on April 1, but worries remain about possible bottlenecks for all produce.

I wanted to gather some vital statistics on blueberries, and this space is a good way to illustrate trends in fresh blueberry imports, along with other stats of interest on the still-rising fruit.