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Newark, N.J.-based AeroFarms won the Responsible Business Award for Sustainable Innovation at the Ethical Corporation Awards, a Reuters event.

Value-added sales are gaining traction for Coral Gables, Fla.-based Fresh Del Monte Produce.

A cool early growing season and late heat will reduce the supply of top grade Wisconsin cranberries this year, one marketer reports.

Los Angeles-based Joolies, an organic medjool date company, won the award for best first-time exhibitor at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.

Banana supplies should be steady, and sales look favorable for the next several months, grower-shippers say.

Clear Labs’ Clear Safety platform has received Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) Performance Tested Methods certification for genus listeria and Listeria monocytogenes testing.

The Food and Drug Administration has released an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder.

The Center for Produce Safety will embark on another campaign in the next year to raise funds for the group’s food safety research efforts.

We all know there is no food safety “kill step” for fresh produce consumed in a raw state.

The percentage increase of organic produce sales might be slowing, but organic grower-shippers say actual volume continues to grow.