Food Safety Leadership Awards
With all the work being done to enhance food safety in the industry, perhaps we can win some awards and show how much effort is going into these initiatives: NSF International today announced the first call for nominations for its 2007 Food Safety Leadership Awards (FSLA) Program. As part of NSF’s ongoing public health and […]
Pundit Rewind LIV
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, […]
Florida Corn Served During
Governor’s Inauguration
It was a bit cold as Charlie Crist was sworn in as Governor of the State of Florida on January 2, 2007. But several hundred people were warmed up as the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association shucked, cooked and served up some hot sweet corn to attendees. The corn was provided by Wilkinson-Cooper Produce of […]
Meal Assembly Centers Enter
Supermarket Arena: Are YOU Prepared?
Few things important happen in the intersection between foodservice and retail without Sharon Olson of Olson Communications in Chicago giving us an early warning, and she has been beating the drums regarding the rapid roll-out of Meal Assembly Centers, otherwise known as MACs. This concept involves stores where consumers prepare meals and take them home […]
Pundit Rewind LIII
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 XLIII
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 XXV
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 —
Profitable Participation
It was back after the PMA convention in San Diego that we first heard demands for a merger of PMA and United, motivated by a sense that the industry needed to present one voice on these food safety issues. We discussed this issue in PMA/United Merger Fresh On Our Minds. Next we heard commentary from […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — More On Manure
We received a comment regarding our piece Pundit’s Mailbag — Transitional Answers. The piece was a response to another article we ran entitled Pundit’s Mailbag — Transitional Ground . Both pieces dealt with the revelation that the field implicated in the spinach/E. coli crisis was grown organically and was marketed as conventional produce because the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Disney’s Response To ‘Disconnect’
We’ve been running a few “first person” observations regarding the Disney foodservice operations, based on a Pundit family vacation to Walt Disney World. We discussed how the change in the “default option” from French Fries to produce worked out for the Pundit family here, and we dealt with what struck us as an oddity that […]
