Erratum
One of the great things we love about the Internet is that the entire readership is in a massive quick-error-correction mode. We published a piece called Food Safety And Why The Problem Will Only Get Worse…Or Won’t, which pointed out that the Centers For Disease Control estimate that tens of millions of Americans get sick […]
NRA Forms Produce Safety Working Group
With the FDA and CDC putting out a notice that tomatoes in restaurants have been linked to the recent Salmonella outbreak, we have a clear reminder that foodservice buyers have the potential to play a big role in setting food safety standards. Here at the Pundit, we’ve been paying a great deal of attention to […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXV
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 XV
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 —
United’s President/CEO Responds (Part 2)
As we mentioned the other day, United Fresh Produce Association President and CEO Tom Stenzel was kind enough to send the Pundit a letter. With a food safety crisis every week, we know he is busy and appreciate the effort. For clarity’s sake, we divided the letter in two parts. The first dealt specifically with […]
FDA Focuses On Retail And Foodservice
Food Safety
One of the issues we’ve been dealing with is that food safety does not stop at the production of the product, and so retailers and foodservice operators need to take action to reduce their own contribution to foodborne illness. We pointed out that in the midst of the spinach outbreak, Wal-Mart had a problem with […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XIV
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 —
United’s President/CEO Responds (Part 1)
Tom Stenzel, President and CEO of the United Fresh Produce Association, was kind enough to take a moment from his busy day, during these busy times and send the Pundit a letter. The letter mentioned both issues related to the possibility of a merger between PMA and United and addressed the Pundit’s analysis of government […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXIV
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 — CPMA’s President
Sets the Record Straight
The Pundit is pleased to publish our first letter from outside of the United States: I have been reading the Pundit religiously, I find the editorials very interesting and thought provoking — at least to me anyway! I wanted to just clarify one point in the article, U.S. Spinach Still Banned In Canada, dated October […]
