Is This New Product Destined To Be
The Potato Chip Of The Produce Department?
We’ve explored the issue of cartoon marketing for kids here, here, here, here and here. The Washington Post picked up on it here and The Associated Press continued with the issue here. Labeling of this sort can help but, in the end, satisfaction with a product is going to be determined by convenience, flavor and […]
FMI Steps Into The Food Safety Fray
Here at the Pundit, we’ve been focused quite heavily on the role buyers can play in helping the industry produce safer produce. We initially reviewed the Buyer-led Initiative for Food Safety here, here and here, which is signed on to by the following: Greg Reinauer, Amerifresh, Inc. Frank Padilla, Costco Wholesale Reggie Griffin, Kroger Company […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXVIII
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 XVIII
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 […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Spezzano Defends DiPiazza/Wal-Mart
Dick Spezzano, once Chairman of PMA and for many years Vice President of Produce at Von’s, sent a note regarding the Pundit’s piece on the state of Wal-Mart and Bob DiPiazza’s resignation from Sam’s: First let me start with that I read your Perishable Pundit daily with great interest, and as I mentioned to you […]
Farm-to-Fork Food Safety Resources
Another hat tip to Lou Cooperhouse, Director at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, for taking the time to point out the following and for providing some excellent resources for the industry: Food safety outbreaks have now occurred over the past few weeks in three very different value-added agricultural products, due to three different causes, and […]
Salute To Salinas’ Mayor Donohue
Pundits of limited vision have been focusing on the switch of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate as the big news of election day. The Perishable Pundit, however, knows where the real levers of power lie in America and is pleased to congratulate Dennis Donohue on his election as Mayor of […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XVII
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 […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXVII
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 […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Sticking Up For The Pundit
A former member of the Board of Directors of one of the national produce organizations and a member of one of the most prominent families in the produce industry passed along this letter: Just read your response to United’s President/CEO Responds and, while I’ve been tempted previously to comment on a few other topics, I […]
