Audacious US Cheese Wins In Paris!
We highlighted an intriguing new product — the first blue cheese made on the US West Coast — and had a laugh over the fact that the producer was named Rogue Creamery. These folks had the audacity to bring Oregon Blue Cheese to display at the SIAL exhibition in Paris, France. Well they may be […]
Is It Possible To Have A PMA Chairman From Outside The US?
During the course of the spinach/E. coli outbreak, we wrote several times that there was a real lack of coordination between the public health authorities of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The Produce Marketing Association has long been interested in expanding internationally both to better serve its U.S. membership, which is now so involved with […]
Broader Concern For Food Safety
A hat tip to Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, for passing along this slideshow entitled: “Spinach Outbreak as Part of Broader Concerns about Producer Safety — An FDA Perspective.” It is by Robert L. Buchanan of the FDA’s Center For Food Safety And Applied Nutrition. Take a look at this presentation […]
Food Safety And Why The Problem Will Only Get Worse… Or Won’t
The Centers for Disease Control estimate that there are 70,000,000 individuals who get foodborne illness each year. Divide 70 million by 365 days a year and we should be seeing 191,790 cases per day. However, on a major foodborne illness outbreak, such as the spinach/E. coli outbreak, we barely identify 200 affected people. Most weeks, […]
Salmonella Update: CDC Still Searching
The Centers for Disease Control are continuing to investigate the Salmonella outbreak. Although the authorities are comfortable saying it is produce-related, they are uncertain of the exact cause — although they report many patients reporting eating “red brown tomatoes.” We asked Pundit investigator Mira Slott to speak with Dr. Wences Arvelo, EIS Medical Officer in […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXIII
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 XIII
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 — More On
PMA/United Merger
The issue of United and PMA merging has caught the imagination of the industry. We originated the discussion with an article PMA/United Merger Fresh On Our Minds that grew out of discussions with industry leaders at the recent Produce Marketing Association convention in San Diego. We then published letters from Harris Cutler of Race-West Company […]
Opportunity For Buyers’
Food Safety Initiative
Much attention has been focused on the Buyers’ Initiative for Food Safety, which was conceived by Tim York of Markon Cooperative and David Corsi of Wegman’s Food Markets — and which we dealt with here. The initiative gained added support when Gene Harris of the Denny’s Corporation expressed support right here. Gene’s addition to the […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXII
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 […]
