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The Food and Drug Administration’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety and corresponding “blueprint” that guides the process are not a quick fix to outbreaks that led regulators to seek new answers.

(CORRECTED) Naturipe Farms, Salinas, Calif., has value-added blueberry foodservice packs that promise contact-free production in the kitchen, longer shelf life and other benefits.

Joe Millman has joined I Love Produce’s marketing team.

The North Olympic Development Council in Washington has gathered locally raised funds to create the Olympic Peninsula Farmers Fund.

Richard “Dick” Allen Symms, who led and grew the family business, Symms Fruit Ranch, Caldwell, Idaho, died July 13. He was 84.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative’s Office has named five members to the U.S. Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Fruits and Vegetables.

Dave Puglia, president and CEO of Western Growers, has been appointed to the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee.

Agricultural Capital (AC) has restructured and added new leadership to prepare for rapid growth, according to the company.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on Coram Deo Farms Inc., Tubac, Ariz., pulling its Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act license.

TerMir Inc., Raleigh, N.C., has received a $100,000 AgTech Innovation Prize for its citrus greening disease treatment.