California Strawberry Industry
Moves To Make Food Safe
With the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative promising to move from lettuce and leafy greens on to other commodities and the general sense that food safety outbreaks are becoming more of a problem and more unacceptable to government and to consumers, smart people around the industry are getting their ducks in a row. Some of these […]
Pundit Rewind LVI
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 XXVIII
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 — Arguing For Irradiation
In response to our piece Irradiation Will Prevent Future Outbreaks, we received a letter: In the midst of the current spinach crisis it is obvious that irradiation is a needed choice for food safety. Why aren’t all these people that say they are interested in the health of consumers, FDA, WGA, signers of the Buyer-led […]
Chance To Be Recognized By PBH
Move fast, the deadline to enter the Produce for Better Health Foundation’s (PBH) 2006 National Excellence Awards is January 12, 2007: National Excellence Awards Recognizing those creating a healthy food environment Produce for Better Health Foundation’s National Excellence Awards recognize companies, organizations and individuals nationwide that take an active role in 5-A- Day and in […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary XLVI
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 […]
E-coli 0157:H7 Vaccine Approved
For Use In Canada
In our piece Fighting E. coli At The Source, we discussed research in Canada regarding a new vaccine for cattle that could significantly reduce the level of E. coli 0157:H7 in cattle. Well that vaccine has now been approved for release in Canada: “This makes Canada the first country in the world to have access […]
PMA’s Produce Solutions Conference
Has New Twist
Big changes are afoot at this year’s PMA’s Produce Solutions Conference, which was formerly known as the Retail Produce Solutions Conference. This conference is a lineal descendent of a joint conference done by the Produce Marketing Association, United Fresh, Food Marketing Institute and the old National-American Wholesale Grocers’ Association. Because of FMI and NAWGA, the […]
Wal-Mart’s Lack Of Focus
Interesting article in Fortune on January 9 entitled, The Unending Woes of Lee Scott, which chronicles the various problems Wal-Mart has been confronting. Like most pieces on Wal-Mart, the article is a bit unfair, or at least beside the point. Lee Scott has sometimes said that one of the issues Wal-Mart confronts is that it […]
Pundit Rewind LV
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, […]
