One of the better known health advisers, Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, will star in a documentary airing May 19 and May 20 that investigates the deadly spinach outbreak.

In CNN: Special Investigations Unit - Danger: Poisoned Food, Dr. Gupta "asks tough questions about the voluntary guidance on the produce industrys processing and reveals that the FDA knew about problems that existed on farms in California," CNN said in a statement on the upcoming special.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will implement new import requirements on U.S. leafy greens, effective June 1. Under the new requirements, which were announced May 4, shippers must declare on confirmation of sale documents whether any of the leafy greens that they are exporting to Canada were grown in California or in a state other than California.

If any product was grown in California, the CFIA will now require that it be from a signatory handler of the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement.

"As a result of farm closures, fewer imports and rising production costs, the supply of mushrooms dropped late last year and has not yet recovered to previous levels. This, coupled with weather-related production challenges, resulted in across-the-board increases in the prices paid to growers," said Laura Phelps, president of the American Mushroom Institute, based in Washington, DC.

SALINAS, CA -- Colorful Harvest, based here, is now the exclusive grower- shipper for "Green Giant Fresh" melons nationwide.

The deal -- which had been in the works for about a year -- was completed Thursday morning, May 3. Colorful Harvest began shipping cantaloupe and honeydew out of Tampa, FL, and Brawley, CA, on May 7, Colorful Harvest Chief Executive Officer and General Manager Doug Ranno told The Produce News.

Other California shipping points are Mendota and Firebaugh, and melons also will ship from Yuma, AZ, and Maricopa, AZ.

BOSTON -- The New England Produce Council hit a home run with its final dinner meeting of the season, held May 9, here, at the home of the city's beloved Red Sox. The event was sponsored by Sunny Valley International, based in Glassboro, NJ.