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The Food and Drug Administration has formed a partnership with the Yuma, Ariz., leafy greens industry and other groups in a multi-year study to determine how crops in the area are getting contaminated with pathogens.

Seven Seas has hired Brent Young as manager of sales in its Visalia, Calif., office.

Singapore-based tech company DiMuto has its first customer in the U.S., with citrus company Fancher Creek Packing using its Track & Trace blockchain technology.

Promising easy wireless access, Carrier Transicold has introduced the Micro-Link 5 Controller.

Mission Produce Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has big plans in Colombia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Teasing the details of a new era of smarter food safety, Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner Frank Yiannas spoke Sept. 18 at the United Fresh Washington Conference.

The Packer’s 2019 Fresh Trends data for 2018 purchases of potatoes, squash and apples in the U.S.

The Flavor Tree Fruit Company will have significant pomegranate volume this year, said Maurice Cameron, sales director of Hanford, Calif.-based company.

For U.S. produce growers, the bark of Hurricane Dorian was worse than its bite.

The 2019-20 California navel crop is down 7% from last season, according to the first U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate.