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Fresh-cut fruit provider Fresh Innovations, Stockton, Calif., has a new CEO, Tim Stejskal.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified five romaine lettuce varieties that are slower to brown after processing.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sanctioned Custom Fresh Cuts Inc. in a Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act case involving almost $700,000 in unpaid produce shipments.

Fresh Del Monte Produce reported the COVID-19 pandemic dropped expected net sales of fresh, value-added and banana segments in an “unprecedented and turbulent” second quarter by an estimated $132 million.

Albert Garnica, the vice president of agricultural operations at Taylor Farms who helped the industry define reliability and quality that made the value-added salad category possible, has died.

Okanagan Specialty Fruits has launched a foodservice web portal to give chefs information on bioengineered non-browning Arctic apples.

An outbreak of Salmonella Javiana traced to a fresh-cut fruit salad from Tailor Cut Produce is over, according to agencies investigating the outbreak

The COVID-19 pandemic played a role in reduced first-quarter earnings for Coral Gables, Fla.-based Fresh Del Monte Produce.

NatureSeal, the company originally known for preserving fresh-cut apples, has a new blend for fresh strawberries.

The number of illnesses linked to a salmonella outbreak traced to fresh-cut fruit from Tailor Cut Produce has almost tripled in less than a month.