Between Christmas and New Year’s, we are presenting “Pundit Classics,” pieces that ran previously that deserve a second look. Today we are reviewing some of our work on cartoon characters and marketing to children.
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind L
With so much having been written in so short a time, thought it would be helpful to publish a sort of round-up of available material to help people understand the whole situation regarding spinach and this E. coli breakout: The Perishable Pundit itself has dealt extensively with the subject in several major pieces. On September […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXXVX
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 XXII
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 —
Fairtrade From A European Perspective
Thought a great thing to do with our last Pundit’s mailbag of 2006 is feature our first letter from outside North America. It is in response to our piece analyzing the concept of “Fairtrade” in the context of J. Sainsbury’s commitment to “Fairtrade” bananas: I have been reading your Pundit since the start: sometimes I […]
Season’s Greetings To All!
The Pundit is going to take Mrs. Pundit and the Junior Pundits off to Disney World for Christmas, and then we will be back home before New Years for a family wedding. We’ll be monitoring the world, and if something crucial happens we will cover it with the usual insights, but we’ve selected some great […]
Oldways Offers New Ways
To Reach Latinos
Here at the Pundit, we’ve dealt with issues related to marketing to Latinos many times, including both here and here. Much marketing to Latinos in the US by the perishable food industry is horrid. The Pundit shudders to think of the number of Mariachi bands and sombreros he has seen at events and promotions — […]
Many States Are Weak
At Reporting Foodborne Illnesses
A Scripps Howard News Service report finds that states are doing a wildly varying job when it comes to identifying the source of food and water borne illnesses: Scripps studied 6,374 food-related disease outbreaks reported by every state to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 31, 2004. […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XLIX
With so much having been written in so short a time, thought it would be helpful to publish a sort of round-up of available material to help people understand the whole situation regarding spinach and this E. coli breakout: The Perishable Pundit itself has dealt extensively with the subject in several major pieces. On September […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXXVIX
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 […]
