Published: Jun 18, 2021

A new FDA report details how airborne contamination can spread pathogens from farms and animal operations to fruit orchards.

Published: Jun 11, 2021

La Unio de Llauradors said that the rejections of Turkish and Egyptian fruit and vegetable shipments, due to pesticide residues or banned substances in the EU, continued on the rise.

Published: May 31, 2021

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is releasing the findings of a sampling assignment that tested raw agricultural commodity romaine lettuce mostly at facilities and on farms in the Salinas, California, and Yuma, Arizona, growing regions for the presen

Published: May 26, 2021

A newly released Department of Pesticide Regulation report should ease concerns of California consumers unsure about pesticide residues in fresh fruits and vegetables.

Published: May 24, 2021

Coastal area storm ‘Tau Te’ and red banded caterpillar pest attacks in the plains are causing heavy losses to Indian mango orchard farmers.

Published: May 21, 2021

Nearly all of the 17 prefectures required to test food products for radiation after the March 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima are also testing items not listed in the guidelines.

Published: May 10, 2021

CanadaGAP®, an internationally recognized food safety program for fresh fruit and vegetable suppliers, and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

Published: Apr 28, 2021

An outbreak of E. coli O157 in the United Kingdom - that affected 36 people - has been linked to a fast food product containing imported cucumbers.

Published: Apr 23, 2021

The German authorities have issued an warning to German consumers over imported Moroccan green beans that contain high concentrations of pesticide residue.

Published: Apr 14, 2021

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would take ‘two important steps to advance the safety of leafy greens’.

Published: Apr 14, 2021

According to the latest report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the non-compliance rate for pesticides in foods decreased in 2019.

Published: Apr 14, 2021

At the SAG / USDA - APHIS / ASOEX Phytosanitary Inspection Site in Cabrero, more than 4.28 mln boxes of fresh blueberries destined for the United States were inspected as of March 31 of this export season.

Published: Apr 09, 2021

On April 6, the Food and Drug Administration fired an unmistakable warning shot at the leafy greens industry.

Published: Mar 30, 2021

The Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Department (Maqis) has confiscated over 40 tonnes of imported cocoa fruit and vegetables at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas.

Published: Mar 30, 2021

Expanding what is already one of the most diverse greenhouse baby leaf and head lettuce portfolios on the market, Revol Greens is adding a large-scale chopped romaine program with three new retail varieties available at select retailers throughout the Mid

Published: Mar 23, 2021

Researchers at Action on Salt are calling for a restriction on the use of “misleading” nutrition claims on unhealthy foods (deemed high in fat, salt and sugar: HFSS).

Published: Mar 08, 2021

A new study has shown that gentle streams of water carrying sound and microscopic air bubbles can clean bacteria from salad leaves more effectively than current washing methods used by suppliers and consumers.

Published: Mar 03, 2021

According to data from the annual report on zoonotic diseases, the number of foodborne disease outbreaks and deaths in Europe has increased in 2019.

Published: Feb 24, 2021

Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) has confirmed another introduction of bird flu at a Dutch poultry farm.

Published: Feb 24, 2021

Shlomi Fogel is the chairman of Carmel Agrexco, an agricultural export company that operates a Golan Heights blueberry farm.