Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary LV
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 XXXVII
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 — Traceability
We have been running a great deal on the issue of traceback including recent Guest Pundits here and here by Gary Fleming, Vice President, Industry Technology and Standards, Produce Marketing Association. One of the problems with the draft Good Agricultural Practices document for spinach, lettuce and other leafy greens is that, although it requires people […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Ugly Or Ugli? That Is The Question
Our piece proclaiming UglyRipe Tomatoes Now Available Year-Round led one of our Jamaica-based readers to remind us that the UglyRipe isn’t the only produce item whose name trades off its appearance: Thanks for your Perishable Pundit. I enjoy reading it. Since I see you are going to Fruit Logistica, I shall try to visit you […]
Where’s the Fruit?
One of the reasons that we can’t seem to get consumption of produce to rise may be that consumers sometimes think they are eating produce, specifically that their children are eating produce, when they are not. That is our take from a recent study unveiled by The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, […]
USDA’s Draft Farm Bill
Targets Specialty Crops
For weeks the buzz in industry circles has been that U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns was about to unveil a Farm Bill proposal that would show special attention to specialty crops, including fruits and vegetables. The background is that although specialty crops account for nearly half the value of crops produced, almost the […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XXXVI
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 — Food Safety
And The Role Of Buyers
We received a letter regarding our piece Pundit’s Letter To The Signatories Of The Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative in which we challenged the buyers to insist upon more rigorous standards than are proposed in the current draft Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) document: Regarding your open letter to the buyer group: If the buyers were to […]
Pundit Rewind LXIV
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 LIV
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 […]
