Wholesalers, Independents May Get Windfall From Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
The list of signatories to the buyer-led food safety initiative is an impressive one: Ron Anderson, Vice President Corporate Produce, Safeway, Inc.Craig Carlson, Vice President Produce, Pathmark StoresJim Corby, Vice President, Produce Merchandising, Food LionGreg Corrigan, Director Produce & Floral, Raley’sDavid Corsi, Vice President, Produce, Wegman’s Food MarketsBryan Gannon, Director Produce & Floral, Big Y […]
Taco Bell’s Blame Game
There was a bunch of headlines out that said things like “Green Onions Cleared in Food Safety Probe,” all of which were not true. What happened is that the tests on samples taken from various Taco Bells came back negative. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is especially true with perishable […]
Pundit Rewind XLIV
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 XXXIV
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 XVI
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 has a conference planned. 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 […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Eliminating E. coli 0157:H7
An experienced person in the food processing industry sends this note: The crux of the problem lies in the enormous amount of antibiotics produced and sold for use in cattle and chicken feeding. E. coli 0157 was created in the gut of a cow as a mutation. My guess is a super strain of salmonella […]
Sainsbury’s Commits to Fairtrade
But Is It Fair For Everybody
Sainsbury’s, the #2 food chain in Britain, has made a commitment to sell only Fairtrade-certified bananas. Fairtrade is not common in the U.S. outside of some coffee marketers, but is very big in the U.K. In fact Sainsbury’s was already selling about 20% of its banana as Fairtrade bananas before this announcement. Basically, the idea […]
Pundit Rewind XLIII
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 XXXIII
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 XV
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 has a conference planned. 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 […]
