The United Fresh Produce Association Foundation will offer its popular course, “Training for a Recall, Communicating Under Fire” as a six-part online webinar.
The course, presented through the trade group’s Center for Food Safety and
The United Fresh Produce Association Foundation will offer its popular course, “Training for a Recall, Communicating Under Fire” as a six-part online webinar.
The course, presented through the trade group’s Center for Food Safety and…
The United Fresh Produce Association has released a new white paper that explores the likely effects of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Available at www.unitedfresh.org, the white paper examines new requirements and regulations…
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The 2011 United Fresh Produce Association Show will take place in New Orleans May 2-5. Registration for the produce association’s annual conference has opened online.
The event, themed BIG Easy and held at the Ernest…
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The United Fresh Foundation’s A Salad Bar in Every School campaign has donated two new salad bars to public schools in the Washington, DC area, for a total of 50 salad bars to schools in…
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The produce industry, Whole Foods, and Chef Anne Cooper, the “renegade lunch lady,” are all working feverishly to get salad bars into schools, and their effort is picking up steam.
Whole Foods and Cooper’s Food,…
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The United Fresh Produce Association’s Washington Public Policy Conference, scheduled for September 14-16, 2010 in Washington, DC, will focus on the fresh-cut segment and on small farms, local and regional food systems and pesticide residues.…
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A new study suggests that exposure to high levels of organophosphate pesticides, which are commonly used on fruits and vegetables, can lead to a higher rate of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children.
The study…
The development of the Audits Benchmarking Matrix, which enables side-by-side comparisons of the third-party audit organizations and standards most commonly used by the U.S. produce industry, was completed last week by a working group of…
Produce safety and traceability were two central topics of discussion this week at the United Fresh Produce Association’s 2010 industry conference in Las Vegas.
The increased industry-wide focus on improving food safety and ensuring products…
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“Traceability is Coming . . . Is Your Company Ready?”
Although a bit foreboding, the tagline for the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is completely serious. PTI, a brainchild of the United Fresh Produce Association (UFPA)…