Food Lion kicked off its Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Fall Football Campaign Sept. 4. It will run through Sept. 17 to support local children and their families receiving medical care from 26 children’s hospitals.

CrowleyFresh, Crowley Maritime Corp. and Customized Brokers’ newest cold storage facility located in Miami opened in early 2013. Business at the new facility took off quickly and has grown exponentially since.

Monterey Mushrooms surpassed the $2 million mark in total scholarships awarded to the dependent children of Monterey employees. The scholarships have helped provide the opportunity to attain knowledge and fulfill dreams for the 20 years this program has been in place.

Organic pomegranates, organic persimmons and one variety of organic grape constitute the major fall fruit varieties offered by Homegrown Organic Farms in Porterville, CA.

“We will be starting pomegranates right around the end of August or the first of September,” said President Scott Mabs in an interview with The Produce News Aug. 6. “We start off with the Smith variety and the Foothill, then it looks like we will move into the Wonderfuls sometime around the first week of October this year.”

WASHINGTON — Importers of certain fresh produce exempted from the Food & Drug Administration's new produce-safety proposal are not off the hook from complying with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, cautioned Brian Pendleton, senior policy adviser at the FDA, during a United Fresh Produce Association-sponsored webinar held Sept. 3.

This was just one of many wide-ranging questions Pendleton and Charlotte Christin, another FDA senior policy adviser, fielded during a 90-minute webinar on the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act rules proposed on July 26.

Coastline, a year-round grower-shipper of fresh vegetables, is proud to announce that Cisco Martinez has joined the company as its quality assurance manager.