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Southern Specialties announced the company has started shipping Florida grown blueberries in 6 ounce Southern Selects clamshells. This year’s blueberry crop will include Farthing, Flicker, Chickadee and Meadowlark varieties. Florida blueberries, Southern Selects blackberries and premium Adelita variety raspberries are distributed from the company’s Pompano Beach, Florida distribution facility. …

Birko, a leader in providing food safety solutions to the produce industry, has partnered with Garden Cut, a specialty division of Indianapolis Fruit, Indianapolis, IN. …

2015 has ushered in a new era of healthy eating revolutionized by growing nutritional education. Armed with knowledge, consumers are seeking tangible health benefits in the food they consume, and superfoods have emerged as a major nutritional force in this trend. …

The Allen Lund Company, Charleston office is pleased to announce the promotion of Thomas Hughes to Operations Manager. …

Primus Group Inc. announced today the sale of its Auditing Division to Javier Sollozo, PrimusLabs’ former Director of Auditing Operations. The name of his company is JS Audit Group Inc. which will do business as Primus Auditing Operations. The sale of the Auditing Division has been in the works for over a year and was prompted by a new requirement of the Global Food Safety Initiative’s Benchmarking Committee in response to Azzule Systems’ request to re-benchmark the PrimusGFS version 2.1. The deal was reached March 1, 2015. …