Published: Oct 12, 2019

Tomatoes are the probable source of a Salmonella outbreak in Sweden, according to public health officials.

Published: Oct 09, 2019

As reported by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), Italy has rejected the import of oranges from Uruguay because they contained traces of a pesticide that is prohibited for use in horticultural crops.

Published: Sep 25, 2019

Hortgro is in the final stages of securing funding for a new research project that will look at the ability of the fungus carried by the polyphagous shot hole borer beetle to infect deciduous fruit trees as well as common windbreak tree species.

Published: Sep 24, 2019

Together with its partners, Kiremko delivered and installed a complete potato processing line capable of producing a variety of pasteurized potato products.

Published: Sep 24, 2019

An insect recently found in Franklin County in Maine, the swede midge, poses an economic threat to those raising broccoli, cauliflower and other members of the brassica family.

Published: Sep 24, 2019

Fresh cilantro, parsley and basil are typically eaten without having undergone a ‘kill step,’ such as cooking, to reduce or eliminate bacteria.

Published: Sep 23, 2019

Carrots and potatoes are among the most important vegetable crops in the EU, where carrot and potato production was estimated at 5.8 and 62 million tonnes respectively in 2017.

Published: Sep 23, 2019

Nagpur oranges, which already had to combat water scarcity this summer, are now succumbing to a fungal infection brought on by excess rain.

Published: Sep 20, 2019

The audience to the recent Myrtle Rust Science Symposium heard how myrtle rust has wiped out species from some areas across the Tasman.

Published: Sep 19, 2019

Genetically modified insect-resistant eggplants (Bt brinjal) have successfully reduced pesticide use and improved livelihoods among the Bangladeshi farmers who grow it.

Published: Sep 19, 2019

An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the Davao Region said areas affected by the Fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease, may double by this year.

Published: Sep 18, 2019

The Government of South Korea has ordered the culling of thousands of pigs following confirmation of an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF).

Published: Sep 17, 2019

Scientists of University Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia) have detected firstly the reddish brown spot disease on dragon fruit in Malaysia.

Published: Sep 16, 2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local partners, investigated a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Uganda illnesses linked to Cavi Brand whole, fresh papayas.

Published: Sep 11, 2019

The French government has launched a nationwide consultation on the implementation of pesticide-free buffer zones around homes.

Published: Sep 10, 2019

Last week, a theoretical part of the risk management system (RMS), created on the basis of the «Argus-Fito» Federal State Information System, was demonstrated.

Published: Sep 06, 2019

Pyrethroid insecticides were widely used against codling moth (Cydia pomonella) in the Río Negro and Neuquén valley, which are the main production areas of pome fruits in Argentina.

Published: Sep 04, 2019

There have been MRL changes to carbaryl for market access to Japan that will impact Australian growers exporting vegetables and other products to Japan.

Published: Aug 29, 2019

The Romanian Ministry of Agriculture announced in a press release that 2,080 samples of both fruits and vegetables have been analyzed, and a first conclusion is that no Romanian products exceed the maximum permitted limits of pesticide residues.

Published: Aug 28, 2019

Kenya’s horticulture farmers have for long lived in fear of their products being rejected by the European market.