The Produce Marketing Association has created a new member-only award called the Retail Award for excellence in merchant innovation.

Max Teplitski, whose most recent position was in food safety and nutrition at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, is the Produce Marketing Association’s chief science officer.

The 2019 Tour de Fresh broke fundraising records for the event, with more than $180,000 raised to purchase 51 salad bars.

Starting in 2020, new generic Universal Product Codes will not be issued for produce in the U.S. and Canada, with company-specific codes taking their place.

ANAHEIM, Calif — Southern California was a perfect venue for Compac, part of TOMRA Food, to show its wares.

Fresh from presenting an attention-grabbing booth at Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit, Lakeside Organic Gardens is preparing for the transition between the fall and winter growing seasons.

Twenty-four-thousand of us were recently in Anaheim for PMA’s Fresh Summit. How many times did a question like “How’s the show going?” get asked?

Los Angeles-based Joolies, an organic medjool date company, won the award for best first-time exhibitor at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.

The Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo was a boon to Anaheim, Calif.-area feeding programs with 228,400 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables going to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

The Packer’s Tom Karst visits with Craig Carlson of Carlson Produce Consulting Oct. 25 about the just-concluded 2019 Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.