The Apple Processors Association

02/17/2025

Wishing you a safe President's Day!

01/20/2025

APA honors the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

12/25/2024

08/09/2024

📰The Farm Credit Administration board received FCA’s 2023 Annual Report on the Farm Credit System’s Young, Beginning, and Small (YBS) Farmer Mission Performance at it's August 8th board meeting.
FCA strongly supports the System’s mission to serve YBS farmers, ranchers, and producers and harvesters of aquatic products. This year’s report showcases the initial results of a multiyear effort to improve both the quality and depth of information that the agency collects on how System institutions serve YBS borrowers.

08/09/2024

Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Promoting Healthier Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise Act (LIFE Act). The bill would provide $75 million in pilot funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct national education campaigns about how to recognize and address overweight and obesity, train health professionals to recognize the early signs of overweight and obesity, educate patients about proper nutrition and exercise, and develop intervention strategies in the workplace and community settings.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Promoting Healthier Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise Act, or the LIFE Act, to encourage exercise and healthy eating habits nationwide. The bill would provide $75 million to the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

08/08/2024

Representative Matthew Rosendale (R-MT) introduced the Ensuring Health in SNAP Act of 2024 that would allow states to prohibit the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the purchase of soft drinks, candy, ice cream, and prepared desserts.

07/26/2024

Senators DeLauro and Durbin have introduced the Federal Food Administration Act, legislation that would establish the Federal Food Administration, a single agency responsible for ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply and promoting good nutrition. This new agency would take over food responsibilities currently housed at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Federal Food Administration Act, legislation that would establish the Federal Food Administration, a single agency responsible for ensuring the safety of our na...

07/25/2024

📣Federal court has ordered higher pay for foreign guest workers in Washington orchards.

The farmworker union continues to pursue the lawsuit addressing how wages are set for orchard workers.

07/22/2024

🗞News to know...
The International Food Information Council (IFIC) published the consumer research survey, American Consumer Perceptions of Sodium in the Diet, to measure consumer's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about sodium consumption.

07/20/2024

USDA announced the promotion of Cindy Long as the new Deputy Under Secretary for the agency’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). This appointment follows the recent departure of Stacy Dean, the former Deputy Under Secretary, announced in June 2024. Cindy Long, currently serving as the agency’s FNS Administrator, will assume her new role beginning July 2024.

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the names of individuals who hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C. Eric Deeble has been promoted to Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

07/20/2024

The FDA final rule, Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of Term: Healthy, is currently at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The final rule would update the definition for the implied nutrient content claim "healthy" to be consistent with current nutrition science and federal dietary guidance, revising requirements for when the claim can be voluntarily used on food labels to indicate that a food's level of nutrients may help consumers maintain healthy dietary practices.

The rule would update the definition for the implied nutrient content claim "healthy" to be consistent with current nutrition science and federal dietary guidelines. The rule would revise the requirements for when the claim "healthy" can be voluntarily used in the labeling of human food products to...