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Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXV

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 VII

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 […]

Policy On Letters To The Pundit

A Pundit thanks to Anthony Barbieri of Acme Markets. We received a request to run a photo and description of a child who was supposedly “missing” — the girl’s mother supposedly worked as a deli manager at Acme. Here at the Pundit, we don’t run things that are just sent to us, so we called […]

Pundit’s Mailbag —
In Defense of Sunkist’s New CEO

Regular readers of the Pundit know that we have been dealing regularly with the issue of the future of Sunkist. Our most recent piece was entitled Eastes Leaves Sunkist and dealt with the departure of Rick Eastes, who was Sunkist Global LLC’s first employee in 2004 and built it up to an organization that sourced […]

Wal-Mart Franchise

Wal-Mart announced an agreement with Bharti Enterprises, a company based in India, to enter the Indian market via a joint venture. Probably because the law in India prohibits foreign ownership of department stores, a plan was devised whereby Bharti will actually own the stores and Wal-Mart will provide the logistics, distribution and sourcing along with […]

Words From Buyers Who
Did Not Sign The Food Safety Initiative

We’ve devoted extensive space to analyzing the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative. In addition to our previous list of signatories, we can also add Mark Hilton, Vice President of Produce and Floral for Harris-Teeter, based in Matthews, North Carolina, as a signatory: Ron Anderson, Safeway, Inc. Craig Carlson, Pathmark Stores Jim Corby, Food Lion Greg Corrigan, […]

Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXIV

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 […]

Thanksgiving and Punditry

The Pundit, Mrs. Pundit and junior Pundits, Primo and Segundo, will all spend Thanksgiving with Momma and Poppa Pundit. It is a special occasion for us as Poppa Pundit overcame great adversity this year and so we will celebrate Thanksgiving with special joy. Although Momma Pundit cooked Thanksgiving dinner all through the Pundit’s childhood, when […]

Pundit’s Mailbag — Thankfulness

With Thanksgiving around the corner, the Pundit gives thanks for having readers such as this: Your handling of all these issues on a daily basis must certainly be taxing to you. Personally, I have learned so much about the salad side of the industry. The politics of PMA, United and FDA leave me puzzled as […]