Mexican Tomato Grower Says
Illinois Embargoed Its Product
Our pieces Free Baja, Andrew & Williamson Hit Hard By FDA’s Mexican Tomato Ban and Baja Growers Denied Fair access…Building Case For WTO, along with the accompanying interview FPAA Trying to Clear Baja, helped to illuminate the injustice being visited on the growers of Baja California. Although central and southern Baja still remain unfairly restricted, […]
Florida Tomatoes Coming Back To Life
We ran a piece here with Mark Munger, Vice President of Marketing for Andrew & Williamson, San Diego, California, and here with Allison Moore, Communications Director for the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, Nogales, Arizona, but one can’t fully appreciate the extent of this crisis with out realizing its impact in Florida. The other […]
Subway Still Measuring
Impact Of Tomato Losses
As part of our exhaustive coverage of the Salmonella Saintpaul tomato outbreak, we’ve asked that Retail And Foodservice Buyers Share Their Experiences to learn how the outbreak played out. Now we went to the largest foodservice chain by number of units and asked Mira Slott, Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor, to speak to Subway: […]
Who Will Pay For The Losses?
What is the one question that dare not speak its name during this stage of the Salmonella Saintpaul/Tomato crisis? Who is going to pay for all this? One industry veteran put it this way: It will be interesting to see who suffers the financial losses on this one. In the Spinach/Spring Mix mess, buyers went […]
FPAA Trying To Clear Baja
As soon as we ran FDA Adds 19 Florida Counties to “Safe” List, we knew that everyone’s attention would switch to Mexico. So we analyzed the situation in a piece called Andrew & Williamson Hit Hard By FDA’s Mexican Tomato Ban and issued a clarion call to Free Baja. Now we wanted to learn more […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Can Tomatoes On The Vine From Mexico Be Sold?
Our exhaustive coverage typically focuses on larger industry issues but, sometimes, one needs to just understand how the rules work with regard to one’s own business: Let me start by saying I enjoy reading your column very much, probably because I share your views on most issues. I am a hydroponic greenhouse tomato grower/shipper based […]
Does FDA Lack Faith In Produce?
We’ve been dealing with big issues when it comes to Salmonella and Tomatoes. Now one of the leading scientists in the fresh produce arena sent along a little brain teaser: You and your team have once again done an amazing job of consolidating a lot of information regarding many, many sides of this issue and […]
Following FDA’s Demand For Certificates, Florida Sends Strong Force Of Inspectors
Following the decision by the FDA to add 19 Florida counties to the “safe” list, we started receiving numerous comments from wholesalers, repackers and distributors around the country that they were not able to get the certificates required under the FDA’s new rule. Many were desperately trying to get certificates to cover tomatoes that have […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Are Attacks
On FDA Flawed?
We consider ourselves blessed to receive some very generous fan mail at the Pundit, but sometimes it goes the other way. So our comprehensive coverage on the Salmonella Saintpaul/Tomato crisis brought this brief, but pointed, critique: Your repeated attacks on the FDA are not logic nor science-based and put industry protection ahead of consumer protection. […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — FDA
Needs To Use Modern Tools
In the context of our exhaustive coverage of an issue such the Salmonella Saintpaul/tomato outbreak, sometimes a single paragraph of a single story can cry out to a reader and crystallize an important issue. If we are fortunate than our reader will decide to share that insight with the entire industry, and indeed, we are […]
