The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market will be the site of the Eastern Produce Council's meeting in May 2014, which will feature a former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback as the keynote speaker.

This will be the second meeting at the state-of-the-art facility. The first meeting was held in 2012 and drew over 240 attendees.

Since its beginning a little more than 15 years ago, Santa Barbara Farms has stayed true to its mission of providing several commodity products to the produce industry on a year-round basis.

Headquartered in Lompoc, CA, which is near the coast about halfway between the city of Santa Barbara and the produce region of Santa Maria, Santa Barbara Farms specializes in Iceberg lettuce and celery, and also grows and ships several other items including cauliflower.

ARMONK, NY — Consumers may go to the DeCicco’s supermarket here in Armonk, a suburb of New York City, for the excellent quality products in the produce, dairy, deli, meat, bakery and seafood departments. They may go for the extensive selection of prepared foods. They may go to enjoy a salad or slice of pizza on their lunch hour.

But the total shopping experience is a whole lot more.

Walter D. Klein, who is in produce sales at wholesale grocer Bozzuto's Inc., is retiring Jan. 3 after a long career.

PHILADELPHIA — The Chilean & American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia recently honored three individuals who during the course of their careers have had a significant influence on the Chilean fruit industry.

On Nov. 20, Eric and Ryan Jensen, owners and operators of Jensen Farms in Holly, CO, officially assigned their lawsuit against PrimusLabs to Attorney William Marler, a nationally recognized food-safety advocate and managing partner of the Seattle-based law firm Marler Clark. The firm specializes in foodborne illness cases, and Marler represents 46 of the 64 victims of the 2011 Listeria outbreak traced back to tainted cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms.