Pundit’s Mailbag —
Kill Steps And Irradiation
It is said that generals are always fighting the last war. So, with all the attention being paid to the fields, it is wise to remember that the next foodborne illness outbreak may take place somewhere else, such as the processing plant. An executive at a major processor sent these thoughts: I returned from Western […]
PRO-Wal-Mart? Hmmm
After we published our piece on the bankruptcy announcement of Brown & Cole, we received an angry e-mail in which the sender explained that he wanted to stop receiving the Pundit: Unsubscribe — why?? Because I am sick and tired of your “PRO-Wal-Mart” stand. Since we hope this gentleman, who works for a regional retailer, […]
Pundit Hall Of Shame
We won’t mention the name of the magazine in order to protect the guilty, but this publication, which likes to claim expertise in “merchandising,” selected this display as an example of great merchandising. As the publication wrote: “Urban Fare in Vancouver, British Columbia, knows that a wire rack serves as a great vehicle to cross-merchandise […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXXI
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 […]
Insights Into Latino Marketing
Here at the Pundit, we’ve dealt before with the issue of the need to improve the way the industry markets to Latinos. All too often, well meaning efforts have either failed or actually did harm because they wound up insulting people. It still is very common to think that marketing to Latinos means putting everything […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
More On PMA/United Merger
The issue of whether it makes sense for PMA and United to merge still percolates. We’ve been dealing with the issue of possible merger of PMA and United here, here, here, here, here and here. Now, Jim Allen, President/CEO of the New York Apple Association, weighs in: Without any hesitation, I agree with many others […]
PulseNet, And The Pundit, In The News
One of the useful things the Pundit can do is try and advance public policy as it relates to food safety. Sometimes this means being critical of our regulatory agencies. We are better suited to do this than many of our associations because they have to work with the CDC and FDA and similar organizations, […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXX
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 XX
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 II
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 […]
