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Growing Produce
About 150 produce growers, handlers and other industry allies gathered in Belle Glade recently to hear Food and Drug Administration representatives discuss new food safety rules and to get answers to questions on compliance.
The public meeting was hosted by UF/IFAS to help Florida's specialty crop industry understand what's ahead as FDA begins implementing new food safety rules set out under the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act.
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Growing Produce
David Eddy writes: If growers don’t have the workers to tend and harvest a crop, all other concerns pale in comparison.
So we decided to highlight an operation on the cover, McManis Family Vineyards of Ripon, California, that truly respects their employees and rewards them financially. I’ve toured a lot of farms and interviewed countless growers, but on virtually every visit a grower will tell me something I didn’t know or hadn’t considered before. On this occasion, as you probably guessed, it had to with the workers.
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Progressive Grocer
Members of Generation Z (born 1995 and after) are quickly approaching a status of being powerful consumers for brands and retailers. These 60 million-plus consumers are entering the most influential stages of their lives and are developing consumer habits at an early age.
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USDA
The Specialty Crops Inspection Division provides grading, inspection and certification services that support the marketing of U.S. specialty crops and related products. Grading services are voluntary (except when required for imported commodities). In FY 2015, SCI inspected and graded 71.4 billion pounds of commodities.
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Growing Produce
U.S. grade standards fulfill an important function in orderly trade of produce, providing a common language for evaluating produce quality and mediating trade disputes. Produce is sorted into groups by grade standard for packaging and marketing.
Grade standards specify the quality and condition of the produce items to be sold, such that the buyer understands what he or she is purchasing. If the items do not meet the specified standards, a third-party inspection can be requested.
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Food Safety News
The Food Safety Summit produced some polite discussion, but no clamor for bringing back the Microbiological Data Program to test more fresh produce before it reaches consumers.
The MDP, about $5 million of annual federal funding for state agricultural laboratories to test fruits and vegetables at picking time, ended after 2012. Prior to that it was responsible for about 80 percent of the fresh produce testing done with federal funds.
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FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the publication of draft guidance to assist qualified facilities, such as very small businesses, in complying with the Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule or the Preventive Controls for Animal Food Rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. A business that meets the definition of a “qualified facility” is subject to modified requirements of the preventive controls rules.
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FoodNavigator
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables may help to protect against age-related inflammation observed in diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, a study has demonstrated.
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Roll Call
Growing up on a dairy farm, Rep. Chellie Pingree’s mother taught her there was nothing in the refrigerator you couldn’t use in a recipe — even if it was expired.
“Sour milk goes into a biscuit,” she said. “A stale strawberry goes into a pie.”
But in Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s home, the fight over when food goes bad is a different matter.
“It’s the classic talk with teenagers: ‘Is the milk still good?’” he said.
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FreshPlaza
In 2015, Spain was the country that obtained the highest revenue from the export of watermelons, with a total of 298.81 million Euro. The value of the world's total exports reached 1,204.45 million Euro.
The data has been supplied by the Statistics Division of the United Nations, COMTRADE, under code 080711 (fresh watermelon) of the Tariff Integrated of the European Communities - TARIC.
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