Buyer Commitment To Higher Standards
Means Willingness To Pay More
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 16, 2007 When WGA issued its letter to Publix, we questioned the applicability of some its concerns: WGA seems to be missing the important point that Publix is a company free to make its own procurement policies. Even its letter to Publix, in point ten (10), seems to imply that […]
Consensus From Unknown Experts Leaves Cause To Err On Side Of Caution
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 16, 2007 In the more moderate joint produce association letter sent to Walt Disney World Co., there was a point made that spoke to how food safety metrics ought to be designed when we have imperfect knowledge: “…some of the recommendations in your document are inherently based on opinion and […]
WGA’s Primal Scream…
And Dirty Glasses
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 16, 2007 The letter that Western Growers Association wrote to Publix in response to its letter to produce suppliers insisting on adherence to new food safety standards of the Food Safety Leadership Council is best understood as a primal scream — an outpouring of the bitterness and resentment that growers […]
Negotiation Delegation Needed
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 15, 2007 We are a little concerned that all these letters may have poisoned the water too much for negotiations to proceed smoothly. The goal has to be to get the technical people talking, and to make that happen the industry should consider appointing a negotiating delegation, a team of […]
Are Buyers Willing To Pay More And Partner With Vendors For Food Safety?
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 15, 2007 We closed our initial piece on the subject of WGA’s response to the Food Safety Leadership Council by pointing out the need to lower the emotion level: One thing is sure: Buyers and sellers have to live together, so some civility in our discussions is essential for the […]
Letters Bring Broader Issues To Surface
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 15, 2007 The new joint produce association letter to the Food Safety Leadership Council (FSLC) is much better than the one sent by WGA, yet we confess that we suspect all this letter-writing is counterproductive. Letters tend to freeze positions in place and limit the freedom of negotiation. They create […]
Coalition Of Associations Seeks Dialog
With Food Safety Leadership Council
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 15, 2007 Our piece, Food Safety ‘Arms War’ Claimed As WGA Responds To Publix Demand For ‘Enhanced’ Produce Standards, pointed out that WGA’s letter to Publix was so incendiary that, as we wrote: “… if this issue is to be resolved, it can only be resolved through the vertically integrated […]
Food Safety ‘Arms War’ Claimed
As WGA Responds To Publix’ Demand
For ‘Enhanced’ Produce Standards
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, November 13, 2007 Western Growers Association is currently meeting in Hawaii. People go there for the climate, but WGA has made sure it would be hot… by publishing a letter to Publix Super Markets that can only be described as incendiary. One of the buttons on the top of our page […]
A Closer Look At
Retail Food Safety Audits
When Western Growers Association issued an announcement challenging the Food Safety Leadership Council and its demands for different food safety standards, it also pointed something out: … the consortium has not provided the fresh produce industry with its own set of good handling practices that demonstrate that consortium members are properly handling fresh produce after […]
Cutting Through The Agendas:
What’s A Buyer To Do?
Our pieces on the Food Safety Leadership Council, which you can read here, here and here, brought to the fore the issue of the role of buyers in establishing food safety standards, which we earlier dealt with rather extensively as a result of the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative — launched in October of 2006 — […]
