Year: 2017

Technavio’s report on the global commercial vegetable cutters and dicers market analyses the business dimensions and presents a comprehensive breakdown in terms of market segmentation by product placement, including commercial wall-mounted vegetable cutters and dicers and commercial countertop vegetable cutters and dicers. Commercial wall-mounted vegetable cutters and dicers are mostly used by foodservice establishments with a high level of daily production requirement. …

CDC, several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7infections (STEC O157:H7) in 13 states. The Public Health Agency of Canada has identified romaine lettuce as the source of the outbreak in Canada. In the United States, state and local public health officials are interviewing sick people to determine what they ate in the week before their illness started. …

From the moment the Wyoming Cowboys mascot, Cowboy Joe (a young pony with a big spirit) trotted onto the blue field at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, it was “game on.” The Wyoming Cowboys, representing the Mountain West Conference, defeated the Central Michigan Chippewas from the Mid-American Conference 37-14 in the country’s premier cold-weather college bowl game with close to two million fans around the country watching it live on ESPN. …

‘Tis the season for sharing with those around us, so leading fresh produce marketer Oppy and East Greenwich, RI-based Dave’s Marketplace have just wrapped up the second annual “Put the Crunch on Hunger” campaign to benefit the Rhode Island Food Bank. …