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Produce importer Jac. Vandenberg, Yonkers, N.Y., is replacing citrus bag plastic netting with a compostable netting made from beech tree pulp.

With travel bans due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, on-site audits have been disrupted, and the United Fresh Produce Association has a web seminar to answer importers’ questions.

After months of collaboration, U.S. and Mexican papaya industry stakeholders have a food safety document specifically designed for the tropical fruit.

The U.S. Department will start inspecting Mexican tomatoes entering the U.S. on April 4, as part of the suspension agreement with the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement became effective July 1, but it brings no sweeping changes to North American produce companies who have operated with the NAFTA for more than two decades.

Now that the USMCA has begun, what can we say about the North American Free Trade Agreement?

Customs and Border Production officers in Pharr, Texas, intercepted a commercial load of Mexican onions with $30.5 million worth of suspected methamphetamine in the trailer.

The Food and Drug Administration has set fiscal year 2021 fees for inspection relating to imports and third-party audits under the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Michael Walsh, a commodity manager at Seald Sweet, is retiring after more than four decades in the produce industry.

Federal trade and agriculture officials have rescheduled hearings for growers to testify on how foreign trade is harming U.S. agriculture, with a focus on the effects of Mexican produce imports on southwest growers.