CABI scientists have made the first discovery of the Asian samurai wasp Trissolcus japonicus – a natural enemy that kills the eggs of the the invasive

The Australian strawberry scare has spread to New Zealand with a supermarket chain announcing Sunday that needles were found in a box of the fruit sou

Do you wash an avocado before eating it? According to a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA report, you should, because the skin of the fru

After heavy losses caused by hailstorm and then the problem of “rusting” due to heavy rains and humidity, now, with the high temperatures, three more

As part of a larger study, begun in January 2014, researchers for the UK’s Food Standards Association (FSA have revealed the results of testing berry

This Thursday, grocery store workers were being urged to pay extra attention to the fresh fruit and vegetables they handle, after a customer at a Coop

A string of high-profile produce recalls may lead to shortages of the most recent culprits ahead of the holidays.

The commercial advantage of keeping individually quick frozen (IQF vegetables in stock continues to drive their demand among retailers, grocery store

Cornell scientists have developed a computer program, Environmental Monitoring With an Agent-Based Model of listeria (EnABLe , to simulate the most li

The Romanian Ministry of Agriculture announced in a press release that 2,080 samples of both fruits and vegetables have been analyzed, and a first con