year ahead

The next step in the perishables pipeline—after harvesting, packaging, and shipping a product—is marketing. Several trends carried over from 2018...

Produce marketers look for new ways to differentiate their product. “Suppliers want to really draw consumers in with their branding,”...

Will 2019 be a renaissance for managing postharvest freshness in produce? Kristen Park, extension specialist at Cornell University thinks so....

Traceability has been in the spotlight, but there have also been advances in product testing to reduce costs and identify...

The industry’s own Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) for food safety is poised to make a comeback, as it dovetails with...

While increased food safety scrutiny is nothing new, the produce industry will experience more regulatory attention in 2019. Jennifer McEntire,...

“In food safety, things did not go very well [in 2018],” says Jennifer McEntire, vice president of food safety and...