Food Safety
City wouldn’t let processor stay or go
B&P Packing Company was between a rock and a hard place. On the one side was the city of Soledad, which wanted the processor to move from its downtown... continue reading »
Produce can learn from the beef industry
Bo Reagan sees the produce industry asking some of the same questions the beef industry started asking in 1993. He should know. As executive director ... continue reading »
A Traveling Man
The past two months found me in Palm Springs, Calif., for United FreshTech and Chicago for United Fresh Marketplace. The two shows were as different a... continue reading »
Marketing with Newsletters
Business marketing today encompasses so much more than just 20 years ago.
Your customer is inundated with information as never ... continue reading »
Additions include organic, value-added
In its 25 years, F&S Produce Co., Rosenhayn, N.J., has grown from a seasonal grower/processor to a fresh produce distributor, frozen processor and fre... continue reading »
E. coli bacteria a persistent threat to leafy greens crops
In a display of detective skills worthy of Sherlock Holmes, state and federal investigators hunted down the bacteria that caused 205 people in 26 stat... continue reading »
Food safety can begin before a plant is built
Sanitary design is a holistic approach to creating an environment that will reduce the risk of contamination in a fresh-cut produce facility. It cover... continue reading »
TV News and Old News
I tend to take everything I see in a television news program with a grain of salt.
While working at a local news affiliate durin... continue reading »
Employee Preparedness in Food Safety
Kudos to the lettuce industry for identifying strong food safety practices for production and designing a process to monitor them through the Californ... continue reading »
Fresh-cut processor expands with 160,000-square-foot facility
There’s one moment that has come to define McEntire Produce.
“We had a customer ask us to start shredding lettuce ... continue reading »
