Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XXXIII
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 […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Traceability Is Part
Of The Food Safety Solution
In response to our call for ideas to help improve food safety, which we published in Draft GAP Plan Shows Great Improvement…And Need For More Input, we’ve been in touch with several food safety experts who are working to prepare their suggestions on the draft GAP documents. We’ve also gotten some thoughts from people in […]
Karen Caplan Talks About Potatoes
The National Potato Council deserves a hand as every year it holds a meeting at which it invites speakers from outside the potato industry to provide a fresh perspective. The Pundit had a turn a couple of years ago and this year, showing they have obviously improved the caliber of their speakers, the NPC had […]
Organic Buying Clubs
We’ve dealt both here and here with programs in the United Kingdom in which mixed boxes of organically grown produce are sold on a subscription basis. Now The Palm Beach Post ran an article entitled Organic Food Fanciers Decide it’s Time to Join the Club, which you can read right here. The article explains: Organic […]
Petrified Or Paranoid?
The Mercury News is headquartered in San Jose, not all that far from Salinas. They have a columnist named Kim Boatman who has a bit of a problem: Tempted by a spinach salad heaped with goodies at a local pizzeria the other night, I succumbed. Eating your veggies shouldn’t feel akin to bungee-jumping off the […]
Pundit Rewind LX
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, […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XXXII
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 […]
Foodborne Outbreaks May Bring Opportunity To Increase Fiber Awareness
Is it possible that all this attention to deadly pathogens will rebound to the benefit of the produce industry? This article in The San Francisco Chronicle by Jeff D. Leach, the director of a Paleobiotics lab in New Orleans, Louisiana, holds out that possibility: In the wake of E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks associated with spinach […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary XLX
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 […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Auditing Standards
We’ve been focusing attention lately on the issue of auditors. First we discussed in Pundit’s Mailbag — Food Safety Audits And Government Oversight the question of whether a state-run program made sense or if we weren’t better off with private auditing firms. Then in Pundit’s Mailbag — Auditor Qualification And Certification, a letter from Jeff […]
