1.   Florida officials have further heightened tensions by vowing to aggressively check every shipment of foreign produce arriving by truck for possible diseases, chemical residues and insects.

2.   Food safety inspections of foreign produce are limited to samplings of imported foods once they arrive in the United States.

3.   Growers respond that competition from foreign produce makes it hard to raise wages.

4.   He said it is a federal crime to claim foreign grown produce as being grown in the U.S.

5.   In the long run, federal efforts to bolster consumer confidence in the wholesomeness of imported food will help the American appetite for foreign produce grow.

6.   United Foods says it uses no foreign produce in its products.

7.   In the past week, French farm workers have ransacked Spanish fruit and vegetable trucks as part of a protest against foreign produce.

8.   Produce growers believe labels could influence more U.S. consumers to buy American and reconsider purchases of foreign produce that might be sprayed with chemicals banned in the United States.