Endless Summer tomatoes are now being grown in Florida and test-marketed in New York. DNAP expects to sell them throughout the country by 1997. To Prepeeled Fruit, Inc., of Groveland, FL, to use ARS patented technology to prepeel citrus with commercially available food-grade enzymes. That eliminates hand peeling and allows more precise control of portions. Also, the process removes the bitter white portion of grapefruit peel.
Prepeeled fruit is ideal for school lunch programs and restaurants.
Prepeeled Fruit incorporated the technique in a new processing plant it built in a small rural town in central Florida. When fully operational, the plant expects to hire about 100 people. To Neogen Corp., Lansing, MI, to develop a commercial kit that detects a medication called salinomycin in food and poultry feeds. Salinomycin is not a synthetic chemical, but is prepared from fermentations of natural microorganisms. With Defense Research Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, MD, to improve a system for determining the number of insects in a grain sample by detecting the insects' feeding sounds.