Michael Muzyk, longtime president of Baldor Specialty Foods and an icon in the food distribution industry, will retire at the end of 2023.

This morning Grubhub employees received an email from CEO Howard Migdal, letting them know that the company would be laying off about 15 percent of employees. Migdal, who joined Grubhub in March, said the cuts would affect approximately 400 employees.

In late May, Parker Farms was putting the finishing touches on a new packaging facility that will allow it to offer its retail customers an overwrap, value-added option on sweet corn and its other vegetables.

The FDA Final Rule on FSMA Section 204 published in November 2022 adds the requirement to capture and record Critical Tracking Events or CTE’s, which the FDA defines as an event in the food supply chain involving the harvesting, pre-packing cooling and initial packing of a Raw Agricultural Commodity “not obtained from a fishing vessel, shipping, receiving, or transformation of the food.”

For the past few years, the Southeast Produce Council has been the Title Sponsor of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life Superhero Sprint.

Hy-Vee Inc. will host its Best of Local Brands Summit in August to expand and enhance the product offerings at its more than 285 retail stores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Since the Best of Local Brands summits began in early 2021, more than 125 new brands have been selected and are available to Hy-Vee customers.

The summit will consist of 15- to 30-minute virtual presentations from selected suppliers and will take place Wednesday, Aug. 2.