The Nominations Are In
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has sent the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement out to the handlers to see how many sign up. There are no hard and fast rules but basically, the CDFA will look to see that a sufficient number of handlers, representing a sufficient portion of production, sign […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
The Role Of Produce Traders
Our article Cheaper Produce In Chinatown got a lot of attention, including this letter: I just finished reading your piece on produce being cheaper in Chinatown. Like you, my family has been in the business of distributing and trading produce for several generations. My father and uncle used to ride with my grandfather on his […]
Procedure vs. Substance
There is an awful lot of public discussion going on regarding the procedure by which food safety standards shall be set. The Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative turned to the trade associations, the Western Growers Association turned to a State Marketing Agreement and Marketing Order, and United Fresh has called for Federal regulation. All these initiatives […]
Science And Political Choice
What unites the Buyer-led Food Safety Effort, the efforts of the Western Growers Association, the new principles that United Fresh has elucidated and countless efforts by regional, state, commodity-specific and other national groups? One thing: SCIENCE. The Buyer-led effort explains: The requirements will be developed with input from and approval by industry research scientists, as […]
Pundit Rewind LXII
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 LII
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 XXXIV
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 in […]
On To Berlin
The Pundit is busy preparing to visit Berlin for the first time. We are going to attend Fruit Logistica — a produce industry trade fair. With 1,800 exhibitors expected from over 60 countries and 40,000 attendees from 110 countries, it is a giant event. We’ve never been there before but it has been growing in […]
Pundit Rewind LXI
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 LI
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 […]
