The New York City Terminal Produce Cooperative Market, which operates the Hunts Point produce market in New York City's south Bronx area, is taking a renewed look at rebuilding in New Jersey. This is among the options being considered by a consultant hired several months ago to help the market break a deadlock with New York City.

The market has for years struggled with its landlord, New York City's Economic Development Corp., to find an alternative to operating the 43-year- old Hunts Point market, whose lease in the south Bronx expires in 2011.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration found Listeria in processed celery and in multiple locations at a San Antonio, TX, plant when it inspected SanGar Fresh Cut Produce, the firm being investigated for an outbreak that has resulted in four deaths.

The plant was shuttered Oct. 20 by the Texas Department of State Health Services and ordered to recall all products shipped since January after Texas officials found the outbreak strain in celery and the company reportedly refused to conduct a recall. The state is investigating 10 Listeria cases.

Joined by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Lt. Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday, Oct. 27, Nunhems employees, customers and suppliers celebrated the opening of the seed giant's $30 million expansion in Parma, ID.

Three years in the works, the project doubles the size of the Nunhems campus, which serves as its U.S. headquarters.

Castroville, CA-based Ocean Mist Farms recently added a new section to its web site, oceanmist.com, that is dedicated to promoting the company's sustainability initiatives.

Willcox, AZ-based Eurofresh Farms, a year-round producer and marketer of greenhouse-grown tomatoes and cucumbers also located in Snowflake, AZ, has developed and is implementing a benchmark food-safety system to elevate the protection of its produce.

Eurofresh announced the food-safety protocol during the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit International Convention & Exposition Oct. 15-18 in Orlando, FL.