Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary XLV
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 XXVII
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 — Chiquita’s Banana Experiment
Back in early November, we ran a piece on a test Chiquita was running in South Florida: Chiquita, working with Publix, is running a test of its new Chiquita Fresh & Ready product. The slogan is: Bananas that stay perfectly fresh until you’re ready to eat them! The product is a covered tray of three […]
Pundit Pulse — New Jersey Dept of Ag’s Al Murray
Here at Pundit headquarters, we get frequent calls now from individual states, commodity-specific groups and others looking to be proactive in the world of food safety. They read about the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative and about possible Federal Regulation and they know they need to be ahead of the curve. New Jersey is traditionally one […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Oversights In Food Safety
We’ve received a most important letter: As a grower, shipper and processor of conventional and organic leafy green vegetables, I would first like to commend you for bringing some common sense to the E. coli issue of late. But, in all the ideas I see being proposed by all the different industry organizations and government […]
Costco Struts Its Stuff
Costco posted a little slide show about its status today. You see why they are such tough competitors. With a gross margin in the first quarter of 2006 of 10.58%, they had selling, general and administrative expenses of 9.98% — or in other words, they work all year long and basically operate the stores for […]
Making The Case For Curly Spinach
Curly leaf spinach growing in Colorado Screen shot of www.curlyleafspinach.com The Pundit has never understood why the FDA included curly leaf, or savoy, spinach in its recommendation not to consume when it is a distinctly different product than the baby leaf bagged spinach that was implicated. Clearly others also think it is important to develop […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary XLIV
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 XXVI
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 — Farmers Are Not
The Cause Of Food Safety Problems
Weighing in our coverage of the spinach/E. coli 0157:H7 crisis and food safety issues in general is a gentleman who wishes to speak out on behalf of growers. In fact, he sees much of the trade’s food safety effort, which has focused heavily on revising the Good Agricultural Practices for growers to follow, as not […]
