Pundit Pulse Of The Industry:
Enza’s Dawn Gray
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, March 27, 2007 A Canadian woman, who spent a lot of time living in the United States, moves to New Zealand to run Enza, which is still wrestling with the environment created by the end of New Zealand’s single-desk sales system. Who is this woman and what is she going to […]
Pundit Pulse Of The Industry:
Fyffes’ Dr. Laurence Swan
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, March 22, 2007 The Produce for Better Health Foundation has launched its Fruits & Veggies — More Matters campaign with a special focus on mothers and the PMA has dedicated $500,000 to partner with Scholastic in support of PBH’s Campaign for Children’s Health —all with the goal of teaching children basic […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry Florette UK’s
Mark Newton
We ran a piece as soon as we learned that American-grown watercress, marketed under the Florette brand, had been recalled in Ireland due to the suspected presence of Salmonella, which could present a risk to the health of consumers. It is our policy to not leave things hanging too long, so we spoke to the […]
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Between Christmas and New Year’s, we are presenting “Pundit Classics,” pieces that ran previously that deserve a second look. We are especially proud of the work we do at the Pundit to generate unique content and part of doing that is reaching out overseas to gather ideas from around the globe. Today, we have selected […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry:
Florida Tomato Committee’s Reggie Brown
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 17, 2007 The Florida Tomato Committee lost its battle to restrict sales of UglyRipe Brand tomatoes, but a more important long-term battle is to assure trade buyers and consumers safe product and, on that score, the industry is working hard to succeed. This interview, conducted by Pundit Investigator and Special […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry:
John Baillie Talks About GAPs And T&A
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 17, 2007 Among the more stalwart defenders of the grower and of the Salinas Valley is John R. Baillie of the Jack T. Baillie Co., Baillie Family Farms and Tri-County Packing. In the midst of the spinach crisis he contributed to the trade a wake up call, which we ran […]
Freeze Report
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 17, 2007 Obviously the freeze is bad news for many in the produce industry and we’ll be analyzing it as the situation clarifies. The key with freezes is that you can lose some crop and as long as you still have a significant amount to sell, the crop losses can […]
California Strawberry Industry
Moves To Make Food Safe
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 12, 2007 With the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative promising to move from lettuce and leafy greens on to other commodities and the general sense that food safety outbreaks are becoming more of a problem and more unacceptable to government and to consumers, smart people around the industry are getting their […]
Pundit Pulse —
New Jersey Dept of Ag’s Al Murray
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 10, 2007 Here at Pundit headquarters, we get frequent calls now from individual states, commodity-specific groups and others looking to be proactive in the world of food safety. They read about the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative and about possible Federal Regulation and they know they need to be ahead of […]
Making The Case For Curly Spinach
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, January 10, 2007 Curly leaf spinach growing in Colorado Screen shot of www.curlyleafspinach.com The Pundit has never understood why the FDA included curly leaf, or savoy, spinach in its recommendation not to consume when it is a distinctly different product than the baby leaf bagged spinach that was implicated. Clearly others […]
