New food safety standards for leafy greens, melons and berries have small Australian growers worried
Regulator Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) says several outbreaks of foodborne illness across the three sectors in the past decade highlighted the need for the new regulations,

GVM/Study: Plastic avoidance harms packaging reduction and circular economy
No other material can be packaged as efficiently as plastic. On average, 24 g of plastic is enough to safely package 1 kg of product. Other materials require an average of 116 g, almost five times

Watermelon exports from Uzbekistan were record high in May and could exceed 100,000 already in June!
Exports of Uzbek watermelons to foreign markets began in the first ten days of May 2023. This is nearly one week earlier than usual due to very hot weather in the country. The mass exports begun

Egypt doubles frozen strawberry exports to EU in past five years
Egypt has demonstrated the stunning pace of development in the frozen strawberry export in the past five years, as reported by EastFruit. The EU countries were the most important export

Syngenta's battery against ToBRFV
At the end of last year Syngenta held a field conference to show its first solutions to the dreaded Tomato Rough Borer Virus (ToBRFV) and today it already has 10 varieties with intermediate

For Rijk Zwan, the solution lies in high resistance.
Rijk Zwaan is approaching its 100th birthday and continues with the same vitality as ever. Its tomato catalogue is being renewed with materials such as Margymeno (74-PL001 RZ), a pear tomato for