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Produce Marketing Association now opposes Senate food safety bill
Text of the PMA statement to its members: "PMA has long and energetically been engaged in efforts to modernize food safety laws to protect public heal... continue reading »
East Coast Fresh Cuts
Retail products fueling growth westward East Coast Fresh Cuts is a company that prides itself in listening to and meeting consumer needs. It was a co... continue reading »
Dr. Oz Rebuttal
False information on fresh and fresh-cut produce continues to be spread on mainstream media outlets, and when a daytime television program hosted by a... continue reading »
Modernizing cGMPs
Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) were first promulgated by FDA in 1969, and the last time they were updated was in 1986. Since that time, t... continue reading »
Foodservice 2020
Last year's Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference and Expo in Monterey, Calif., saw the announcement of Foodservice 2020, an ambitious ... continue reading »
Fresh-Cut Stone Fruit
Stone fruits are notoriously difficult to process for fresh-cut products, and there have been few commercially marketable fresh-cut stone fruit items ... continue reading »
‘Lab on a Chip’ Detects Human, Agricultural Contaminants
The University of Arizona's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in live... continue reading »
FDA, CDC and USDA working together to improve food safety
FDA, CDC and USDA working together to improve food safety By Scott Christie, Managing Editor The call for increased food safety from consumers a... continue reading »
FDA, CDC and USDA working together to improve food safety
FDA, CDC and USDA working together to improve food safety By Scott Christie, Managing Editor The call for increased food safety from consumers and Con... continue reading »
Sweet Like Candy
Sweet Like Candy: Sunset Kidz MiMi Candy Tomatoes are a hit with children It isn't common in the fresh-cut produce industry to compare fruits and vege... continue reading »
