Free Produce Program In European Union
A hat tip to Duncan McNiff for passing on the article Free Fruit and Veg on Menu for Schools and Hospitalsfrom the Irish Independent: FREE fruit and veg could be on the school menu as the European Union announced plans to pay farmers to give surplus produce to schools, hospitals and prisons. The plan is […]
Bee Sweet Departure Adds To Sunkist Woes
What a difference less than five months and one freeze can make: February 5, 2007 “Yes, I can confirm that we are no longer part of the Sunkist co-op as of February 2. We had a one-year agreement. It was a trial. We were independent before that. Since the freeze happened, Sunkist was gracious enough […]
Blunt Talk On Organics In The UK
January saw a sudden outbreak of blunt talk regarding organics in the United Kingdom. First David Miliband, the environment secretary, did an interview with The Sunday Times, and the story came out this way: ORGANIC food may be no better for you than mass-produced farm food, according to the cabinet minister responsible for the industry. […]
Culture Clashes At Wal-Mart
In Perishables, the big news at Wal-Mart has been the departure of first Bob DiPiazza at Sam’s Club and, more recently, the departure of Bruce Peterson. Every departure of an individual has its own story behind it, as Dick Spezzano pointed out in the letter he sent us regarding DiPiazza’s departure. Yet no man is […]
Pundit Rewind LXVII
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, […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary LVII
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XXXVIX
There is an ad hoc group that started it all. The National Restaurant Association has its group working on a program and the Food Marketing Institute held a conference. All these buyer-led initiatives can get confusing, so to assist the trade in keeping track of them all, we are publishing this recap of coverage all […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — A European Provides
Food For Thought In 2007
As we prepare to make our visit to Fruit Logistica in Berlin, it seems fitting to share a letter from a European subscriber who wrote to us once before and always has something interesting to say: Did you realize that the Pundit has some very loyal readers (Achilles De Naeyer and Andre Vermaak) in the […]
Prize For Best GAP Idea Rises To $1,000
Here at the Pundit, we unveiled the draft Good Agricultural Practices in conjunction with an offer of an honorarium in the amount of $500 for the best suggestion to improve the draft GAP document. Now, although it has an April 25, 2006 cover date, there actually is an updated version of the draft GAP document […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary LVI
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
