Food Safety Culture
We ran a piece explaining why those who had access to a satellite dish should have tried to view “Reducing Risk Factors In Retail and Foodservice.” Now the same program is available for easy video viewing with Real Media or Windows Media. There is a lot of interesting and valuable stuff here. Many in the […]
From A Victim’s Perspective
Over the holiday the Contra Costa Times ran a profile looking at the spinach/E. coli crisis from the perspective of a woman who got very sick and almost died during the crisis. It is entitled California Produce Now Crop of Concern,and is quite poignant. It also points to how continued consumer concern over produce safety […]
FDA’s Money Problems
On Christmas day, the LA Times published an important article that really capsulated the dilemma the produce industry is dealing with. The piece is entitled Federal Science is Lacking on Food Contamination, and the basic thesis is this: Recurring outbreaks of food-borne illness from contaminated produce are “unacceptable” in today’s society, the government says. But […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Maturing In More Ways Than One
The role that buyers can play in the industry efforts to enhance food safety is still unclear. The roster of signatories to the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative is as follows: Ron Anderson, Safeway, Inc.Gary Bergstrom, Publix Craig Carlson, Pathmark StoresJim Corby, Food LionGreg Corrigan, Raley’sDavid Corsi, Wegman’s Food MarketsBrian Gannon, Big Y SupermarketsGary Gionnette, Supervalu […]
Pundit Rewind LII
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 XLII
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 XXIV
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 —
Ruby Tuesday’s Rick Johnson
As part of our effort to better understand food safety procedures at foodservice operators we’ve run a series of Pundit Pulses. Del Taco’s Janet Erickson and Notre Dame’s Dan Crimmins started us off with the perspectives of two smaller operators but with both individuals very focused on produce. Then Michael Spinazzola of Diversified Restaurant Systems […]
Disney Default Take 2
Back in October of 2006, we wrote about Disney’s decision to change the “default” on its combo meals at its theme parks away from French Fries toward healthier produce items. Over the holidays the Pundit family visited Walt Disney World in Orlando and so got a chance to see how this was working out in […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XLI
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 […]
