Flexible-packaging supplier Emerald Packaging and produce grower D’Arrigo California partnered to launch a 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) low-density polyethylene (LDPE) bag for Andy Boy brand ...

The lettuce cut and packaged for food service and salad mixes is an increasingly important component of the produce industry. Lettuce is highly perishable, and the cutting required in processing ...

Health officials said Thursday that they had traced a recent outbreak of E. coli infections to a lettuce-packaging plant in Ventura County but that the original contamination may have occurred ...

Store-bought lettuce can decay very quickly if not kept in the right conditions when you take it home. I put a popular food storage hack to the test to see whether it stopped a head of lettuce from ...

Chefs say skipping this common salad ingredient makes all the difference. Here’s why they avoid it—and what they use instead.

Lettuce was from Oregon distributor, company says. Sept. 30, 2011— -- Produce seller True Leaf Farms has recalled 90 cartons of chopped and bagged romaine lettuce because of potential Listeria ...

Federal investigators for the first time are recommending a fresh produce item be labeled with its place of origin after narrowing in on where the e.coli-tainted romaine lettuce likely came from that ...

Cleaning a freshly picked head of lettuce can be an act of mindfulness, your worries melting away as you wash and tear each leaf. And the payoff, along with the beautiful summer salad, is a feeling of ...

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