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Industry’s cantaloupe safety meetings change to webinar format

A series of webinars will replace regional meetings scheduled to develop guidelines to improve the safety of cantaloupe. Growers, buyers, auditors, ac... continue reading »

Tomatoes selected for FDA traceability study

The FDA has announced that tomatoes are among the foods selected for a product tracing pilot to be conducted under the Food Safety Modernization Act (... continue reading »

HMC Farms wins NRA recognition

California-based HMC Farms is among the National Restaurant Association's 2012 Food and Beverage Product Innovations Award recipients. The com... continue reading »

Melon industry targets safety

One day. One hundred experts. One issue with exponentially greater implications. In a nutshell, those were the bones of the "Cantaloupe: Food Safety ... continue reading »

Cantaloupe safety & listeria: Produce industry sets meetings to develop guidelines for food safety

Produce industry leaders from across the nation have scheduled four regional meetings to develop guidelines to improve the safety of cantaloupe, accor... continue reading »

Supply chain safety: Leavitt Partners, Park City Group launch global registry

Leavitt Partners, an international health care and food safety consulting firm, and Park City Group, a leader in consumer goods supply chain technolog... continue reading »

Love My Salad: Social networking website for salad lovers

  Salad enthusiasts now have a social networking site of their own called Love My Salad, an online destination that allows salad consumers to con... continue reading »

2011 listeria outbreak: U.S. cantaloupe contamination leads to lawsuits, search for detection method

In January, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee released a bipartisan staff report that details the findings from the comm... continue reading »

PMA contributes $900,000 to Center for Produce Safety

Food safety in the produce industry continues to be top of mind for consumers and industry leaders in 2012. Recognizing that ensuring consumer confid... continue reading »

Nielsen acquires The Perishables Group

Nielsen Holdings N.V., a global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and buy, has acquired The Perishables Group Inc., th... continue reading »