
Greenhouse-grown butter lettuce from Salinas, CA-based Tanimura & Antle has been independently certified as “Pesticide Residue Free.”

Lettuce packages from this produce industry leader will feature a new certification mark alerting shoppers to this product benefit.Tanimura & Antle is the first to obtain this certification for greenhouse grown lettuce.

“Our greenhouse operation uses minimal controls in the growing cycle, as the growing environment is closed and generally pest free,” said Diana McClean, director of marketing for Tanimura & Antle. “This certification independently assures consumers that our greenhouse-grown lettuce does not have pesticide residue.”

The Pesticide Residue Free certification is conducted by Emeryville, CA-based SCS Global Services (SCS), a third-party certifier of environmental, sustainability, and food safety claims. The SCS assessment process screens for pesticides, predicts critical stages in the spraying and harvesting cycle, and tests the final product to ensure that the produce is free of residues, based on the strict limit-of-detection standard of 0.01 ppm or less.

Packaged year-round from their Livingston, TN, greenhouse, Tanimura & Antle hydroponic butter lettuce is available in a one-count clamshell and a three-count club-pack at retail stores across the U.S.

Tanimura & Antle will present new packaging highlighting this certification at the 2013 Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit in New Orleans, Booth 1441.