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7-Eleven tests plastic stay-fresh wrap on its bananas
2009-10-12 09:39:33| Agriculture - Topix.net
"Our customers want yellow bananas - not brown," says CEO Joseph DePinto. So, today, the nation's largest convenience store chain will test at 27 Dallas-area locations a new plastic wrap developed by supplier Fresh Del Monte Produce to keep single bananas yellow and firm for five days - more than double the two-day shelf life for an unwrapped ...
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The Price Of Bananas
2009-08-15 07:29:18| Agriculture - Topix.net
This story was first published on May 11, 2008. It was updated on Aug. 9, 2009. For American corporations, the rewards of doing business abroad are enormous, but so are the risks.
Waste with opportunity-biogas from bananas
2009-07-23 10:18:05| Sugar Industry News
Australians have high standards when it comes to bananas. Up to 30 per cent of harvested bananas in Australia are deemed unsaleable by the market and are wasted along with leaves and plant stalks. However a new project under development in Queensland hopes to turn this wasted opportunity into power by generating biogas from bananas.
Dole sues "Bananas" documentary maker
2009-07-09 12:39:16| Agriculture - Topix.net
Dole Food Company Inc filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against a Swedish film makers it accuses of knowingly including "patent falsehoods" in a documentary about Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for allegedly exposing them to pesticides on its Nicaraguan plantations.
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WTO rules against EU in bananas row with Ecuador
2008-11-27 04:18:00| Food - Topix.net
The World Trade Organization has ruled that the European Union's import taxes for bananas break global commerce rules, putting some Latin American countries at an unfair disadvantage against former French and ...