Jersey Peaches are ‘Comin’

“We strive to grow the very best peaches without cutting corners on food safety and a safe environment for our workers,” says Santo John Maccherone, one of the state’s primary growers, who sells his peaches and home-made peach cider and peach salsa under the Circle M label.

DMA Solutions Launches Interactive Webinar to Discuss Opportunities For Fresh Produce Marketing

July 21, 2020 DMA Solutions

DMA Solutions welcomes fresh produce professionals to join an interactive webinar named “Marketing Matters.” Launched to offer fresh produce marketers a forum for learning, sharing and an open dialogue, each webinar is hosted twice a month on Zoom at 1PM CST.

Call it ‘Cell-Based’: New Study Looks at Selling Seafood Grown From Cells

July 20, 2020 Jenny Splitter, Forbes

The debate over what to call protein grown from cells has long been unsettled, practically since the first public tasting of a cultivated beef burger back in 2013. Back then, news coverage described the burger as “lab-grown,” but a new study set to be published in the Journal of Food Science has a replacement to recommend: “cell-based.”

ASC Responds to Fish Welfare Report

Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has responded to a report about animal welfare standards in the aquaculture industry.

Conservation Group Challenging Cooke Aquaculture for Area Leases

July 20, 2020 Radio Pacific

As the 15-year leases held by Cooke Aquaculture to operate net pen facilities in Port Angeles Harbor and elsewhere in the Puget Sound approach their expiration date, a conservation group has formally submitted a proposal to lease those same sites themselves and restore them for public use.