PMA Launches Classroom Initiative
Did you get My Weekly Reader as a kid? Well PMA has come up with $500,000 to support a partnership with My Weekly Reader’s publisher Scholastic Inc. to encourage produce consumption among children: Photo left to right: Terry Humfeld, PMA; Peter Goulet, Pinnacle Sales & Marketing and Chairman Produce Marketing Association; Jan DeLyser, California Avocado […]
Bye, Bye Five
The new Fruits & Veggies — More Matters campaign has been launched: To encourage Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today unveiled a new public health initiative, Fruits & Veggies — More Matters™, the next generation of the […]
Lessons From Los Angeles:
Food Safety And Security
Are Everyone’s Problem
Ever since an NBC affiliate in Los Angeles produced a segment on the horrible conditions at LA’s 7th Street Market, we’ve carefully monitored the story and tried to learn more. Rats In Los Angeles: The Produce Industry’s Shame highlighted the television report. Lessons From The LA Market and Pundit’s Mailbag — Beware TV Crews Coming […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — AgJOBS vs. Lou Dobbs
Looking over the broad scope of subjects we cover in the Pundit, one astute reader asks if any of theses issues will matter if we can’t get the crops harvested: With much interest I read yours and others comments on so many different issues. Food Safety, Organics, Tom Stenzel in Ireland, and the list goes […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry —
Meruelo Maddox’s, Michael Bustamante
And Steven London
We’ve run several pieces to analyze the situation on the 7th Street Market in Los Angeles. Our first piece, Rats In Los Angeles: The Produce Industry’s Shame, highlighted the report of a local TV station on the horrible conditions in the market. We followed up with Lessons From The LA Market and Pundit’s Mailbag — […]
No Deal On The Seal!
Decisions are starting to be made and the single most important decision regarding the California Marketing Agreement is what to do with the “Marketing” portion of the agreement and, specifically, with the Seal. We’ve discussed this issue extensively in pieces such as Seal Or No Seal: Marketing Agreement May Confuse Consumers, California Food Safety Seal […]
NRA’s Peter Kilgore Speaks Out
Here at the Pundit, we are always happy to open our columns to dissenting viewpoints. There is simply no question that we all learn more if we are willing to learn together. One could say that this has been our primary critique of the National Restaurant Association’s announced plans to unveil a food safety program […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Another Victim Of Spinach Crisis
We are a small regional Savoy spinach packer in Norfolk, Virginia. We sell to retail under the Krisp-Pak Brand and under various private labels. We also sell to wholesalers. We were hit hard by California growers and packers not standing up and accepting their responsibility the first day they heard E.coli 0157:H7 was on a […]
The First President Of Perishables
Safeway’s appointment of Des Hague to a high ranking position in the perishables arena might have passed without remark. After all he is certainly highly qualified: He comes to Safeway from Hot Stuff Foods (formerly Orion Food Systems), an international food franchiser with more than 2,000 locations worldwide, where he spent three years as Chairman, […]
Costco’s 2nd Quarter Slideshow Available
Costco has posted a slideshow highlighting its 2nd Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2007. All the financial details and some great pictures — look at the crowds in the warehouse at Watford in the United Kingdom. A few food numbers: FY’06 Seafood Sales $485M $150M sold annually consisting of 30M Chickens in the Costco rotisserie […]
