U.S. market opens for Vietnamese mangoes

Imports will be subjected to irradiation treatment and volumes are expected to represent less than one percent of volumes coming into the country.

December 01 , 2017

The Packaging Pitch: Reinventing the fresh produce department

Lisa Cork asks 'in the era when Millennials are asserting their spending power, have their wants and demands for the produce department changed?'

December 01 , 2017

U.S.: Opal apple marketing campaign sees positive results

FirstFruits Marketing says it will continue to find new and effective ways to increase awareness of the apple.

December 01 , 2017

Colombia eyes next 15 produce items for U.S. market access

U.S. official Ted McKinney says he sees a "clear path" for the importation of Colombian bell peppers and citrus.

December 01 , 2017

NZ govt renews investment in Zespri's breeding program

The partnership aims to develop at least one novel fresh fruit product type by 2030.

November 30 , 2017

Nature's Pride sees positive retailer response to ready-to-eat kiwifruit

Marketing manager Jan Willem Verloop discusses developments at the company including a new supplier portal and which products are booming.

November 30 , 2017

EU votes to renew glyphosate license for five years

However, the French president said he would take all necessary measures to ban the product within three years.

November 30 , 2017

U.S.: Henry Avocado opens first East Coast cold storage facility

The North Carolina facility has the ability to distribute about 300,000 avocados daily, with storage capacity for an additional one million pieces of the fruit.

November 30 , 2017

New investigator drops US$342M embezzlement case against Russia’s ex ‘banana king’

The case was reportedly terminated for lack of corpus delicti.

November 30 , 2017

U.S.: FSMA 'more like band-aid than cure-all' for food-borne illnesses, says AAEA researcher

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association has released a paper looking into the economic effects of the FSMA, using the U.S. fresh tomato industry as a case study.

November 29 , 2017