Produce

Representatives of Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET were in Washington DC this week to accept the prestigious Dupont Food Quality Award for 2010. A panel of impartial judges from DuPont Qualicon and presenter Food Quality magazine selected for the first time in its 10 year history a fresh produce company to receive this prize. …

Jonathans Sprouts of Rochester, MA is upgrading its recall of conventional alfalfa sprout products with a specific sell-by date to include all of its alfalfa products, conventional and organic, with all sell-by dates, as a precaution, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. …

The New York Apple Association today announced the winners in their annual display contest for apples and Marzetti products in military commissaries. …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that pear growers in Oregon and Washington voted to continue their federal marketing order program. …

After nearly 100 years of working hand-in-hand with nature, Sunsweet introduces a true plum masterpiece DNoir Prunes. This fresh, juicy and delicious prune has prune lovers (and previous non-prune lovers) calling it the best-tasting prune ever. So if you think a prune is a prune, try DNoir to taste the difference! …