Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXXVI
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 XXVI
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 VIII
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 […]
Wal-Mart Vendors Face New Challenges
The expansion of Wal-Mart’s global procurement operation to South Africa raises the larger question of what global procurement and other initiatives affecting procurement might imply for the future of Wal-Mart procurement. In produce, Wal-Mart has worked on a division assignment system. Unlike most supermarkets that bought each day from whatever company they chose to buy […]
Wal-Mart Picks Right Man In South Africa
The Pundit has always thought well of Wayne McKnight, Wal-Mart’s Vice President of Global Procurement. His announcement that Danie Kievet will join Wal-Mart, heading up its South African Procurement Operations, is a coup for Wal-Mart, the realization of a life-long dream for Danie and proof that great minds think alike. In September 2006, after the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Buyers Lecturing Again
Sometimes the Pundit feels absolutely ancient. Perhaps we just started young, but some of the things people say are just so odd if you know the history. This correspondent is another ancient soul on the production side who gets sick at the notion that buyers are going to lecture him about food safety. He gives […]
Another Naysayer of Buyer-led
Food Safety Initiative
With the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative attracting so much attention, we thought it worth talking to some buyers who didn’t think it was a good idea. Yesterday we ran a piece in which buyers who declined to sign focused on the public nature of the project, including outreach to the consumer media, as a mistake. […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXXV
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 […]
Don’t Forget The Regional Spinach Processors
With all the attention paid to the big Salinas-based processors, it is worth remembering that many regional processors produce fresh-cut and bagged items every day. Aunt Mid’s Produce Company in Detroit, for example, explains on its website that “In 1948, Aunt Mid’s introduced fresh spinach in a consumer package, beginning a tradition of high quality […]
Thanksgiving’s Feast: Natural Carcinogens
Now that we are all done with our Thanksgiving feast, we might want to know what was in it. The ever useful Elizabeth Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, wrote a piece that reminded us that for all the attention paid to organic food, those who focus on eating organic for […]
