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Traceability re-emerged as a topic of produce industry focus when the FDA published the proposed recordkeeping regulation as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) (section 204) in September 2020.

Animal intrusion into produce fields has been an obvious food safety risk for some time.

After a recent food safety report, FDA targets California’s central coast region leafy green farms and ranches for additional tests.

With a fleet of about 200 trucks and about 300 trailers, Twin Falls, Idaho,-based Giltner Inc., is an asset-based shipper with heavy business in the fresh produce sector.

Index Fresh has hired Abdoulie Jobe in the new position of logistics manager.

National editor Tom Karst and staff writer Ashley Nickle discuss the latest 90-day delay for produce shippers on the ELD mandate and how blueberries fared in some recent cold weather.

Crowley Logistics has opened an expanded warehouse in Miami in early April, consolidating two facilities and adding 60,000 square feet to the operation.

David Allen Lund, who founded and led the Allen Lund Co., has died.

Coast Produce is expanding in three key states with facilities that enhance the company’s cross dock and consolidation services, and alleviate pressures of new electronic logging device mandates.

Brandy McMullen has been named general office manager of Choptank Transport’s Tampa, Fla., office.