Cheaper Produce In Chinatown
A hat tip to Matthew Caito of Imagination Farms and Caito Foods for sending over this audio piece from NPR, entitled Chinatown Vendors Ripe for Bargains. The thesis is that consumers can get produce significantly less expensively if they purchase in local Chinatowns: Mr. JEFFREY RUHALTER: I shop there all the time. Anytime I pass, […]
Pundit’s Letter To The Signatories
Of The Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Pundit Note: With the chance to review the Good Agricultural Practices for Spinach and Leafy greens draft document, it became obvious that there is work to be done. As a result, the Pundit has decided to issue an Open Letter to the signatories of the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative. You can find the letter below. […]
Pundit Rewind LVIII
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 XXX
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 Pulse Of The Industry:
Beef Industry Food Safety Council’s
James “Bo” Reagan
The Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative is endorsed by a substantial number of important buying organizations. The current signatories are as follows: Ron Anderson, Safeway, Inc. Gary Bergstrom, Publix Craig Carlson, Pathmark Stores Jim Corby, Food Lion Greg Corrigan, Raley’s David Corsi, Wegman’s Food Markets Brian Gannon, Big Y Supermarkets Gary Gionnette, Supervalu Inc. Reggie Griffin, […]
Triumph For United…And The
Industry At Large
When United Fresh announced that it was going to offer a new Executive Development Program in partnership with Cornell University, the Pundit was supportive but concerned: The Pundit wishes United every good fortune. No produce industry function has ever succeeded in selling itself for this price. If it succeeds it will, without a doubt, be […]
Is There Collusion On
South African Citrus Prices?
This is, at least for now, a small story. We hope it will fade away. Thursday morning our phone here at Pundit Central began ringing off the hook as the usual assortment that calls in on these stories started to call in. There were friends of the Pundit who call to help us stay informed, […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry:
John Baillie Talks About GAPs And T&A
Among the more stalwart defenders of the grower and of the Salinas Valley is John R. Baillie of the Jack T. Baillie Co., Baillie Family Farms and Tri-County Packing. In the midst of the spinach crisis he contributed to the trade a wake up call, which we ran under the name In Defense Of Salinas. […]
Flimsy Reporting On Organics’
Health Benefits
The Wall Street Journal is one of the Pundit’s favorite newspapers. However, we are partial to the Editorial and Op-Ed pages, which have different editors than the news pages. As far as the regular newspaper goes, those editors should be ashamed of themselves. In the January 16, 2007 issue, The Wall Street Journal published an […]
FDA Points Finger At Dairy Farms
In Taco John’s Outbreak
The FDA issued a statement regarding the E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak at Taco John’s Restaurants: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it has moved closer to identifying the source of illness for the Taco John E. coli outbreak. FDA and the state of California, working in conjunction with state health officials in […]
