The Tomato Products Wellness Council and SCAN Announce Winners for the Great Tomato Tip-Off Contest!
SCOTTDALE, Ariz., April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Who better to provide healthy eating tips than a group of skilled dietetics professionals from the Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association? Such was the genius behind the...Tainted Tomato Cases Jump to 383 People in 30 states, D.C.
FDA still unsure of source; New York City links 7 infections to salmonella poisoning WEDNESDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- The number of people known to have fallen ill after eating salmonella-tainted tomatoes has now jumped to 383 in 30 states plus the District of Columbia, U.S. heal...FDA Narrowing Tainted Tomato Probe to One Cluster
Won't identify where, but calls it 'most fruitful' lead in ongoing investigation into salmonella outbreak MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- Although a U.S. government investigation into salmonella-tainted tomatoes has not yet identified a specific source for the contamination, healt...Even before tomato warning, many Americans lacked confidence in the food safety system
BOSTON, MA - A new national study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that, in spite of a number of food safety incidents in recent years, most Americans remain confident that the food produced in the United States is safe. However, ...Clarity Needed Amidst Tomato Contamination Confusion
Heat-Processed Tomato Products Are Not a Potential Salmonella Risk APTOS, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As consumers are being warned about consuming certain raw tomatoes due to possible contamination with salmonella, the Tomato Products Wellness Council (TomatoWellness.com) emp...Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. Responds to FDA Tomato Recall
NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc., one of the largest importers and distributors of produce in the Northeastern United States, immediately released a statement in response to the tomato recall issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A salmonella saintpaul ...FDA Expands Tomato Warning Nationwide
Restaurants, markets stop offering some products after 167 people in 17 states sickened by salmonella, CDC reports TUESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials expanded their warning about salmonella-contaminated tomatoes nationwide Tuesday, as experts cautioned consumers...Consumers Can Purchase Majority of Tomato Varieties
Cherry, Grape and Tomatoes on the Vine Varieties not Subject to Salmonella Alert SAN ANTONIO, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Desert Glory who markets the NatureSweet brand, and is North America's largest grower of greenhouse tomatoes, wants to let consumers know that mor...New and improved tomato analyzer
WOOSTER, OHTomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. The Tomato Analyzer is "rapidly becoming the standard for fruit morphological characterizations," according to a study led by Marin Talbot Brewer of The Ohio State Universit...Color test enhances tomato analyzer software
WOOSTER, OHWhen it comes to fresh vegetables and fruits, color is one of the best indicators of quality. Along with texture, size, and flavor, color plays an important role in the business of horticultural crop production and marketing. In tomatoes, for example, color and color uniformity contr...Methyl bromide alternatives indicated for North Carolina tomato production
RALEIGH, NC Methyl bromide (MeBr) is a highly effective broad-spectrum fumigant used extensively in U.S. agriculture to control a wide variety of pests. Under the Montreal protocol of 1991, however, MeBr was defined as one of the chemicals that contributed to the depletion of the stratospheric o...Red alert! How disease disables tomato plant's 'intruder alarm'
How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defences and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in new research out today (4 December) in Current Biology . The new study focuses on a pathogen which causes bacterial speck disease in tomato pla...Evolution of fruit size in tomato
Domesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc, because this is one of the characteristics that early hunter-gatherers chose when foraging for food. In ...Research on grey mould offers possible breakthrough in tomato cultivation
Tomato growers are likely to soon be able to cultivate new tomato varieties without having to use pesticides against grey mould (Botrytis cinerea). This is the conclusion of the STW-sponsored thesis by Richard Finkers from Wageningen University, with which he hopes to earn his doctorate on 3 April ...Study finds DNA barcoding requires caution without closer examination
...that we are being too hasty in wholeheartedly embracing this technique. Dr. David Spooner, a researcher with the USDA and an expert in the potato and tomato family ( Solanaceae ), offers just such a cautionary note against accepting this technique without closer examination in his recent article, "DNA Barc...Natural seed treatment could drastically cut pesticide use
...ster University saw promising results when researchers treated the seeds of tomato plants, sweet pepper and maize. Red spider mite attack on tomato plants was down by 80 per cent, aphid attack on sweet peppers cut by 70 per...MSU discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
...ve identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that t...were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato leaves their distinctive smell, in a way that flie...t were part of a research team that has found that tomato plants use a different compound, neryl diphosphate...Kiwa Fertilizers Pass Independent Tests
...njiang Corps Agro-technology Extended Terminal arranged tests on processing tomato and cotton with Kiwa fertilizer products "Pen Duo Shou" and "Jin Peng Jia B...tilizer products show that: -- Pen Duo Shou can increase the number of tomato fruits per plant as well as the net weight of single tomatoes and ther...Bayer CropScience's Vegetable Seed Business Nunhems Acquires US Lettuce Seed Company Paragon Seed
...ntly pursues its strategy to further strengthen its portfolio in the vegetable seed business. In early 2007 the company acquired Unilever's processing tomato seed business followed by the acquisition of the assets of the Korean company SeedEx specializing in hot peppers and Brassica varieties in the summer ...BAC End Sequencing from Seqwright
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