The past year has been one of successes and setbacks for the produce industry. Notably, in November, the United Fresh Produce Association, together with the Produce Marketing Association and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, announced...
UNITED FRESH PUBLISHES COOL COMPLIANCE GUIDE WASHINGTON The United Fresh Produce Association here has published a new guide for the produce industry on how to comply with the Country of Origin Labeling law, which is due to go into effect for...
WHOLE FOODS ATTEMPTS CHEESY WORLD RECORD...
The natural resource committee of the California Assembly is scheduled to vote Monday on a bill that would impose a mandatory fee of 25 cents on the distribution of single-use plastic shopping bags at all groceries and pharmacies statewide.
The House Judiciary Committee has introduced legislation that calls for merchants, credit card companies and banks to negotiate interchange fees that would be set for three years at a time. The fees, which are charged as a percentage of each...
The Humane Society of the United States — the animal rights group that recently made headlines with an undercover video that sparked a recall of 143 million pounds of beef produced by Hallmark/Westland, Chino, Calif. — has announced...
They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags among the 84 billion that Americans use each year and heightened public awareness is punching a hole in their...