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After more than 15 years with Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc., Emanuel Lazopoulos plans to retire in April.

The Oppenheimer Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for the 18th year in a row.

Following up on its February removal of a ban on California romaine lettuce imports, Hong Kong on March 5 lifted its ban on imports and sales of Arizona romaine.

How much is food choice based on a logical thought process versus an instinctual, “primal” desire?

Bonduelle Fresh Americas, formerly Ready Pac Foods, has hired Monica Johnson as general counsel to its executive committee.

Red Sun Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the seventh consecutive year.

Greenhouse company Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, for the 10th time.

Instead of going out to lunch for that quarter-pounder bacon burger, why not just pick the salad bar?

Produce distributor FreshPack Produce, Denver, is the exclusive supplier to Torchy’s Tacos in Colorado.

Scott Gottlieb, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner whose two-year tenure has included oversight of recent romaine outbreaks and implementation of many Food Safety Modernization Act regulations, has resigned.