Getting A Better Grasp On Traceability
Few issues are more important to the future of the produce industry than the development of an effective traceability mechanism. And no one should be under the delusion that we have one. The FDA grew so frustrated at the inability of one of the national companies involved in one of the food safety outbreaks last […]
Learning From The High Priests Of Food Culture
PMA’s annual Foodservice Conference in Monterey, California, just concluded and it was, as it always is, a highly successful event. There is nothing else remotely like it in the produce industry — a unique place where foodservice, of which produce is a small part, can intersect with a produce industry that is still heavily focused […]
Tim York Recognized For Food Safety Leadership
In what was surely the most predictable and the most deserved award given this year, Tim York, President of Markon Cooperative, was chosen as The Packer’s Foodservice Man of the Year. Tim spearheaded the Buyer-Led Food Safety Initiative, and Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor Mira Slott interviewed Tim here and here. Tim didn’t have […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — National Marketing Orders And Agreements
Our correspondent today has written to us before. Our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — Two Windows And Two Issues, was built around the written testimony he had submitted to the FDA. One focus of that testimony was a recognition that one way to reduce liability for growers and handlers was to reduce the risk to consumers […]
Serving The Future Of The Industry And Honoring Joe Nucci
It is fitting to take a moment to say thank you to the big-hearted folks who we are honored to have as readers of the Pundit. On the very last day of registration for the PMA Foodservice Conference, we ran a piece entitled Lots To Learn From Foodservice, recommending people register for the event and […]
Beware Of Headlines About Dubious Grapefruit Cancer Study
A new study was just published in the British Journal of Cancer purporting to show a Grapefruit Link to Breast Cancer: Eating grapefruit every day could raise the risk of developing breast cancer by almost a third, US scientists say. A study of 50,000 post-menopausal women found eating just a quarter of a grapefruit daily […]
Euclid To Leave Sunkist; Sun Pacific To Handle Marketing, Sea Change For Western Citrus
It may not be the end, it may not be the beginning of the end but it is surely the end of the beginning. We have been covering the travails of Sunkist for some time including this piece we ran back in February that posited a new paradigm for the western citrus industry. That new […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Fairtrade And Harsh Capitalism
At the request of the United States, the WTO has set up a panel to investigate whether the European Union has violated WTO rules in how it handled an earlier verdict in favor of the U.S. and various Latin American countries related to banana imports. Simultaneously, we have received a letter from Mr. Richard Yudin […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Do Consumers Want To Eat Healthy?
Our piece, ‘Nutrition-Education Doesn’t Work’ Says Associated Press Review Of Literature, which was followed up with Pundit’s Mailbag — ‘More Matters’ Can Be A Rallying Cry For The Industry, brought some comments about “health claims,” which we also dealt with in our piece FDA Nixes Health Claim Of Tomatoes Because Of Poor Evidence…Can PBH Step […]
Food Prison
What happens if a society decides to significantly improve the quality and healthfulness of meals served to students at school? It sounds like a nirvana for the produce industry, right? Well in the UK, this is what happened a few years after celebrity chef Jamie Oliver launched an initiative to improve foodservice in British schools: […]
