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While fresh fruits and vegetables tend to have a “health halo” with consumers, a new study finds there are still many opportunities for the fruit and vegetable industry to be more aggressive in connecting these products to healthy eating and healthy aging. Sponsored by the Produce Marketing Association (PMA), “Healthy Eating Trends 2009” from Bellevue, Wash.-based The Hartman Group offers a comprehensive look at the attitudes and preferences that guide the food choices consumers make on a daily basis.

The proposed tax on sugar-laden soft drinks as a way to fight obesity and fund health care reform is causing a stir with legislators, manufacturers, doctors and scientists, who are all debating the idea’s benefits and consequences.

Beef. Peanut butter. Baby food. Cookie dough. These are just some of the high profile recalls we've seen in the last year. Consumers worldwide are worried—and rightly so. Is their food safe? And where did it come from?

Miners, Inc, owner of Super One Foods, enhanced its Web site with a new interactive service for customers, offering online access to its weekly circular, printable coupons, and recipes.

Keene, N.H.-based C&S Wholesale Grocers plans to use wireless technology with its fleet for better cold chain visibility and control of its refrigerated products.

Beef. Peanut butter. Baby food. Cookie dough. These are just some of the high profile recalls we've seen in the last year. Consumers worldwide are worried—and rightly so. Is their food safe? And where did it come from?

Harris Teeter, Meijer and Price Chopper are gearing up to once again support Pink Ribbon Produce, a unique retail program committed to raising breast cancer awareness.

Supraliminal Labs Red Stuff Energy with LuraLean is a hybrid sports drink combining energy, appetite control, calorie burners and 100 percent natural GRAS (generally recognized as safe) fiber under the emerging segment of weight management nutritional supplements, according to the manufacturer, Tomball, Texas-based Funktional Beverages, Inc.