Traceability Calls For
Enhanced Communications Language
We’ve been focusing on issues related to traceability, not least in a two-column series written by Gary Fleming, Vice President, Industry Technology and Standards, Produce Marketing Association. These pieces, Guest Pundit — Traceability And The Need For A Common Language plus Guest Pundit — Pairing The Global Language With Technology, were part of our effort […]
What Is Wal-Mart’s Role In the New
NRA Food Safety Standards?
Our series drawing attention to the danger looming for the produce industry if someone doesn’t grab the reins of the National Restaurant Association continued yesterday with our piece Calling All Produce Executives Who Work Heavily With Foodservice in which we implored produce executives who work for companies that are members of NRA or have influence […]
Calling All Produce Executives
Who Work Heavily With Foodservice
The National Restaurant Association is on the verge of possibly causing a very big headache for the produce industry…and for its own members. But it is not acting alone. A group called the Food Safety Leadership Council which consists of a number of large organizations with deep reputational stakes in food safety, including Avendra, Disney, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Ireland Loves
The Food Dudes…And Tom Stenzel
Our piece Pundit’s Mailbag — Stenzel Speaks Out On Food Safety And Food Dudes, which was a response to two other pieces we published — A Tip Of The Hat For Stenzel and Food Dudes Beat Junk Punks And Kids Eat More Produce — brought a response from the Emerald Isle: Dear Sir, At the […]
Department Of Breaking Your Arm
By Patting Yourself On Your Back
We’ve received word that your friendly Pundit has been nominated for a Jesse H. Neal Award for his column “The Fruits of Thought” published in Pundit sister publication PRODUCE BUSINESS. The award, which has been given annually for over half a century, is presented by American Business Media and is designed to recognize and reward […]
Organics One Year Later —
Wal-Mart, Whole Foods & Wild Oats
A year ago the news in the food industry was consumed by word that Wal-Mart and other mass merchants were pushing their big packaged goods suppliers to supply organic versions of products. Now there is a news report out that quotes executives attending the Reuters Food Summit in Chicago this week as saying that the […]
FDA Guides The Fresh-Cut Industry But…
We Hope The Industry Is Ahead
Of The Guidance
FDA has come out with its guidance document for fresh-cut processors, entitled Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables. You can read the document here. This is the way FDA describes what it is doing in a “fact sheet” about the release: The Food and Drug Administration announces the availability […]
Pundit Rewind LXVXVXV
The Pundit originally ran the Pundit Rewind on September 21, 2006. We continuously update it in order to keep everyone organized with respect to reference material on this subject; we have updated it with new items and run it again today. Spinach Crisis Summary With so much having been written in so short a time, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Wal-Mart’s Market Managers
We’ve recently run several articles related to Wal-Mart, and our pieces, Wal-Mart Continues To Change Its Buying Practices and Ron McCormick Of Wal-Mart Elaborates On Its Procurement Reorganization, brought forth some additional thoughts from an organization that follows major retailers closely: Very insightful articles. Wal-Mart’s buying practices are changing across the board at the moment, […]
Far Above Cayuga's Waters¦.
…Is where an important segment of industry leadership will be heading this weekend and the fact that 40 industry executives, and the companies behind them, have made this commitment is probably the most positive statement that can be made about the state of the produce industry. There was never a question that the program would […]
