SIAL Representation
Although the Pundit has to miss SIAL this year due to the timing conflict with PMA, some of the Pundit’s sister publications will be represented. Mark Gold will represent AMERICAN FOOD AND AG EXPORTER, and Lee Smith, who is traveling with the Cheese Importers Association of America, will represent DELI BUSINESS. If you are in […]
Partial Closure In Mexico
Mexico has announced that it has decided to allow the import of U.S. lettuce but not spinach. The United Fresh Produce Association sent along the news: OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE No. 620October 19, 2006 The Mexican border opened for the California lettuce The Secretariats of Health (SSA) and of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Fishery and […]
Closure For Nunes
Well at least one of these situations is over and done with. The Nunes Company issued a press release: FDA Tests Show Foxy® Lettuce SafeReleased: 3:00 p.m. The Nunes Company President Tom Nunes, Jr. announced that FDA sampling of water, and California Department of Health Services extensive green leaf lettuce testing found no pathogenic E. […]
Foie Gras, Cultural Imperialism
And Hypocrisy
Interesting piece, called I Want My Foie Grasfrom salon.com, in which two well known “foodies” — Anthony Bourdain who is the host on the Travel Channel show “No Reservations” and Michael Ruhlman, a well known author — protest against the “food police” and the society that embraces such policies as banning foie gras or trans […]
Immigration And The Poultry Industry
Here is a piece that points out that Delaware’s poultry-processing plants depend heavily on immigrants, many of whom are suspected of being illegal. It is a useful reminder that the immigration issue, which we have dealt with here, here and here, affects more than the produce industry. But whether it is poultry or produce, the […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XVI
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 VI
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 — Greenhouses
And Vertical Farming
A very difficult, but very important thing to do is to look at the industry not only as it is, but also as it could be. When I proposed that the industry push a guest worker program that would phase out over 40 years, it was a way of looking at the situation and saying […]
Seafood Trade-offs
We’ve been swimming in all the news about seafood this week. In a preemptive strike, before anything was even published, the Pundit started getting announcements designed to discredit a big report expected to come out on the risks and benefits of eating seafood. We viewed these types of announcements as immediately suspect because they consisted […]
Travel Note
The Pundit will be in San Diego for the Produce Marketing Association convention, where we’ll have the privilege of hosting the annual invitation-only “Rising Star Reception,” honoring the recipients of the Annual PRODUCE BUSINESS 40-under-Forty Award and welcoming to the industry the 2006 Pack Family/PMA Career Pathways Fund Fellows. This year we will also be […]
