Wenatchee, Wash.-based fruit grower-shipper Starr Ranch Growers has inked a deal with produce freshness specialist AgroFresh Solutions Inc. to use AgroFresh’s FreshCloud Quality Inspection to digitally integrate its quality inspection efforts. 

Processors are high on sous vide technology for its food safety and quality attributes.

When COVID-19 first hit a year and a half ago, demand for bakery food packaging went down for most product types within the instore bakery. Single-serve bakery packaging, however, held steady and even saw a little bit of growth as the pandemic waged war on retail bakeries.