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19 Mar 2017, 9:05 pm
Also present were: Bob Ehart, Joe Reardon (National Association for the State Departments of Agriculture); Scott Horsfall (Leafy Green Marketing Agreement); Jeff Hall, Sally Blackman (Canadian Produce Marketing Association); Sophia Kruszewski (National Sustainable Coalition); Bret Erikson (Texas International Produce Association); Jennifer McEntire (United Fresh); and Chris Valadez (California Fresh Fruit Association). [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 9:04 pm
” Most California produce growers were complying with the Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, which retailers and growers imposed voluntarily after the 2006 E. coli outbreak involving bagged spinach. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 2:51 am
Scott Horsfall (of Sacramento, CA), on behalf of California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), will be recognized as STOP Foodborne Illness 2016 Excellence in Food Safety Training Heroes. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 2:46 am
Scott Horsfall of Sacramento, CA, on behalf of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), will be recognized as the STOP Foodborne Illness 2016 Excellence in Food Safety Training Hero. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 10:01 pm
Hundreds of audits of California leafy greens operations during the 2015-2016 season found 99.5-percent compliance with industry food safety standards, according to the latest annual report from the Sacramento-based California Leafy Greens Products Handler Marketing Agreement (LGMA). [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 12:37 pm
The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) of Sacramento, CA, recently gave its highest honor to the Chicago-based nonprofit food safety organization STOP Foodborne Illness. [read post]
19 May 2016, 11:13 pm
All four reviewers on the panel say that the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement’s (LGMA’s) food safety guidelines provide the same kind of public health protection as the applicable requirements proposed in the new national Produce Safety Rule. [read post]
11 May 2016, 10:10 pm
“We cannot ever let this happen again,” he said Schneider said the buyers demanded growers in California and Arizona enter into the “Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (LGMA). [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 10:00 pm
Photo by Christopher Lenney Why leafy greens? [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 10:01 pm
A statement on behalf of California growers who are members of the Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (LGMA) made one of the most important points about the FSMA produce rule by calling it “… a good thing for us all — Not just because it’s now the law, but because it’s the right thing to do. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 10:02 pm
In 2007, following the tragic E. coli outbreak, California farmers made an unprecedented commitment to protect public health through the creation of the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement (LGMA). [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 10:03 pm
After the 2006 E. coli outbreak in spinach, California’s agricultural industry implemented a voluntary certification program called the Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 11:38 pm
Similarly, farmers in California, where much of America’s lettuce and spinach is grown, created a food safety program – the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement (LGMA) – in the wake of an E. coli outbreak in 2006 that was associated with Californian spinach and saw 202 people become ill and 3 die. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 10:02 pm
These new standards are evolving in the industry; they are made up of commodity-focused quasi-governmental rules that spell out the requirements for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), such as the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, the Western Growers Association guidance for the melon industry, and the Florida Tomato GAP rule. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 10:01 pm
Together, STOP Foodborne Illness and California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) produced a video that will be used during training for workers who produce leafy greens in California. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 10:02 pm
PMA’s Bob Whitaker, chief science and technology officer, and Jim Gorny, vice president for food safety and technology, moderated the panel including FDA officials and industry panelists Walter Ram, vice president of food safety, The Giumarra Companies, Los Angeles, CA; Courtney Parker, vice president of salad quality and global food safety, Chiquita Fresh Express, Salinas, CA, and Mike Villaneva, technical director, California Leafy Green Marketing… [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 10:02 pm
(This article by Scott Horsfall was published Sept. 19, 2014, by the LGMA, the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement, and is reposted here with permission.) [read post]
5 May 2014, 10:02 pm
(This blog post by Scott Horsfall was published May 2, 2014, on the California Leafy Greens Products Handler Marketing Agreement site and is posted here with permission.) [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 10:01 pm
Notably, LGMA, in combination with Arizona Leafy Green Products Shipper Marketing Agreement, encompasses 90 percent of the leafy greens entering commercial markets. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 10:02 pm
First proposed more than four years ago, the initiative would have created a nationally recognized standard for safely growing leafy salad greens modeled after the California and Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreements (LGMA). [read post]
